At Microsoft Build, Adobe has announced the latest milestone in its partnership with Microsoft to improve how work gets done today. Through new advances in business processes and intelligent automation, Adobe continues to give its joint customers the most modern work experience, centered on technology that enhances teamwork, collaboration, and efficiency. The goal is to help customers do their best work wherever they are. That means bringing all-in-one, digital experiences to where people already work, like Microsoft.

The new capabilities that deliver on Adobe’s common vision for end users, developers, administrators, and IT decision makers are -

· New advances for Acrobat and Acrobat Sign for Teams: Adobe continues to build on the Microsoft Teams platform to make the experience of editing, commenting, converting, signing, and collaborating on PDFs richer, more efficient, and more personal without moving between different apps, user interfaces or separate log-ins. In Acrobat for Teams, Adobe recently added the convenience of Single Sign-On (SSO) and introduced the personal tab — a home page for curating all recent documents, tools, and collaboration into one view.

· Technology Preview of Live Share with Frame.io: Frame.io, now an Adobe company, will preview a Live Share integration with Frame.io at Build. This integration will show how the combination of Frame.io and Microsoft Teams could be used to enable synchronized, interactive reviews of work in progress. Future products could allow multiple participants to meet via Teams while simultaneously reviewing content from Frame.io with synchronized video playback on everybody’s system.

· Acrobat and Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Users will soon be able to apply Purview Information Protection labels and policies to their most important documents within the desktop version of Acrobat. It’s critical for business leaders to add Purview Information Protection to standard business contracts traditionally shared as PDFs like purchase orders, partnership agreements, and service contracts, ensuring that only critical stakeholders can view, manage, and approve those documents.

· Acrobat Sign and Power Automate embed: Adobe is making it easier for customers to streamline repetitive tasks as well as connect data and apps by bringing Power Automate directly into the Acrobat Sign experience. This means that organizations will be able to quickly automate the workflow and audit of e-signatures across hundreds of business processes like field service requests, sales contracts, new hire forms, and IT requests.

· Adobe Experience Manager Forms connector for Power Automate: Adobe Experience Manager Forms offers an end-to-end solution for creating, managing, and delivering mobile-responsive, dynamic forms, and documents that integrate natively with Acrobat Sign. Now, users may easily connect this powerful tool with Power Automate, and kick-off a business workflow, after a form is submitted through Adobe Experience Manager Forms. Action items such as review, approve, and trigger notifications are seamlessly integrated within Power Automate to drive higher efficiency and collaboration.

· Acrobat Sign Graph Connector: New tasks on active agreements will be indexed alongside data from Microsoft 365 and the broader Microsoft ecosystem. Acrobat Sign users will be able to search for and find agreement tasks right within their Microsoft search results.

· Acrobat & Acrobat Sign for Microsoft 365 Unified Install: IT admins can deploy and manage Acrobat & Acrobat Sign add-ins across Microsoft Teams, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint, reducing the time spent deploying these add-ins to end-users.

· Adobe Acrobat Sign for Government FedRAMP Moderate authorization coming soon: Hosted on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud, Acrobat Sign has achieved a new government authorization level, FedRAMP Moderate that extends e-signatures to highly sensitive processes like collecting personal info. The FedRAMP Program is a U.S. federal government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

“No two companies are better positioned to meet the business imperative of today’s hybrid world — easy and secure digital-first experiences with PDF and e-signatures at the core,” said Ashley Still, SVP/GM of Digital Media, Adobe. “Through the deeper integrations between Adobe and Microsoft that we’ve announced today, we continue to innovate to elevate today’s agile and rapidly evolving workforce.”

“The number one priority for every industry leader is streamlining how business is done with their customers, employees, and partners — wherever they are,” said Charles Lamanna, Corporate VP, Business Apps & Platform, Microsoft. “Together, Adobe and Microsoft are delivering advanced workflow capabilities through Power Automate and Acrobat Sign that will give our joint customers a better way to get things done.”