Either a big blog of XML hit Google Reader today out of sync, or Adobe’s labs had a ton of updates today which I received notifications for.
- Lightroom 3 Public Beta Refresh Now
- Adobe Flash Social Service Removed from Labs
- Adobe ColdFusion Builder Removed from Labs
- Flash Builder 4 Removed from Labs (no brainer)
- Flash Player 10.1 beta 3 Refresh Available for PCs and Netbooks
- Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Refresh Available on Labs
- AIR 2 (Athena) Runtime and SDK beta 2 Refresh Now Available on Labs
- Adobe Stratus beta 2 Refresh Available on Labs
- Just Unveilied: Adobe eSignatures
Go and get your Labs on.
Seeing Adobe enter the eSign market validates what we’ve known for years—this is a huge market, and our SaaS-based product delivers tremendous value very quickly. Seeing Adobe abandon software-based electronic signature software in favor of this new service-based approach illustrates the rapid decline of software-based PKI digital signature solutions, which are too complex and costly to administer and manage. As the trusted leader in SaaS-based electronic signatures with over four million users, and the established standard in important markets like Financial Services and Real Estate (where the National Association for Realtors (NAR) has named DocuSign as the exclusive provider to the entire REALTOR market), we have a sizeable market lead over Adobe.
If you compare our service to the new Adobe service, it is immediately obvious that we have a sizable product lead also. DocuSign provides much more than just a signature. We also provide authentication, workflow, data collection and collaboration—all critical components of a business-class e-signature platform. The Adobe service has none of this. So we see this announcement as the best of both worlds. A large company just validated the market we created more than six years ago is huge, and it offers a solution that is not competitive. The awareness created by Adobe will accelerate DocuSign’s business even more