Anyone made any initial excursions in the Adobe digital signing service arena of Echo Sign / Adobe Acrobat DC.

Ive taken on the 30 day trial and the overall interface and UX is quite nice.  Certainly the seamless handling of the signature fields and presentation for signing to the delegated individuals is pretty clean.

All the main things you would want are in there from enforcing the order of signing, distinguishing approval/signature and owner signs first or last + custom subdomain alias, headers and footers (in portal as well as email notifications).

Management of your team and graphic, stylus/mouse, text signatures is elegant as is the library of signing document templates so on and so on.

Clearly this remains a separately invoked "system" but I am thinking that a document owner could use:

1. Version Control on the original

2. Checking out the final version for distribution and signing when the owner uploads it to the Acrobat ecosystem

3. managing the signing circus through Acrobat DC and email

4. importing final signed document/s as new version/s of the original and finally checking the document back into the system (plus metadata/template housekeeping)

Thoughts guys?  It would be good to hear of some ideas around elegant ways to more tightly integrate...  Perhaps leveraging the document cloud that readers on the mobile devices now use?  Not sure...

Will