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    Adobe Acrobat Sign

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Acrobat Sign is an e-signature solution that combines simple and secure e-signatures with Adobe Acrobat. With Acrobat Sign, the user can create, sign, send for signature, manage, and track documents from one Adobe platform. The user can create signing experiences for customers and teams by enabling them to sign documents on any device or browser – anytime, anywhere. No additional software download or accounts are needed. As Microsoft’s e-signature solution, Acrobat Sign…

    $14.99

    per month license

    Microsoft Entra ID

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.

    $6

    per user/per month

    Notarize

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ANotarize is an on-demand remote electronic notary service that allows anyone to legally notarize a document online.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Entra IDNotarize
    Editions & Modules
    Acrobat Standard DC for teams
    $14.99
    per month license
    Acrobat Pro DC with advanced e-sign
    $16.99
    per month license
    Acrobat Sign Solutions
    Call 800-685-4192 for pricing
    Premium P1
    $6.00
    per user/per month
    Premium P2
    $9.00
    per user/per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Entra IDNotarize
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup Fee$34.99 license per monthNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Entra IDNotarize
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
    The feature sets were very comparable but at the time - two-ish years ago - that had us side with Adobe Sign was the integration to Salesforce, so we could integrate digital signatures into our CRM system that we were implementing. At that time, DocuSign did not have such an …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
    Both are easy to use, however the biggest difference I see is the name. Adobe is more recognized. For me, when I used DocuSign, it feels the same for scrolling to sign, but from the set up it tends to be a little more confusing.
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    Microsoft
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    Notarize
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Entra IDNotarize
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Adobe Acrobat Sign and Microsoft Entra ID and Notarize
    Feature
    Adobe Acrobat Sign
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    Microsoft Entra ID
    8.6
    123 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Notarize
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    Ratings
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.1122 Ratings00 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.5119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.2121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings8.2113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.5114 Ratings00 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.290 Ratings00 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings7.797 Ratings00 Ratings
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    BoldSign, by Syncfusion
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    Medium-sized Companies
    OneSpan Sign
    Score9.6 out of 10
    OneLogin by One Identity
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    DocuSign
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Entra IDNotarize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.9
    (228 ratings)
    8.9
    (241 ratings)
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (30 ratings)
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
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    Usability
    1.8
    (194 ratings)
    8.6
    (57 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.3
    (164 ratings)
    7.1
    (21 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
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    Configurability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    7.4
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    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
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    Professional Services
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    9.0
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Entra IDNotarize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Acrobat Sign isn't quite as user friendly as other E-Sign platforms I have used. However, it offers a wide range of features that provide convenience and efficiency. For example, I can have multiple people receive the same document separately, or I can have multiple people receive and review the exact same document. I also like that I can choose to set a signing order or not, this is important for when I send Offer Letters and other things that require order of approvals.
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    Microsoft
    Overall, the Microsoft Entra ID platform is best utilized by people looking to have one platform that manages all interactions between other platforms. The Microsoft Entra ID platform allows for a seemless SSO integration, and can also integrate with Intune for MDM. Additionally, and probably the most easy to understand integration, is the integration with Active Directory, and controls associated with that.
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    Notarize
    We are a very small business and a nonprofit at that so being mindful of overhead costs is essential to our functioning and longevity. I would recommend Notarize for any small business that is unlikely to have a notary public in house or needs to be mindful of the time and human capital needed to constantly be traveling in person to notarize documents. With Notarize, we have been able to find a cost-effective method without losing any of the high-level quality we require. Furthermore, because we often work from home in many different time zones, we don't have to worry any longer about getting to a notary within the traditional 9a-5p business day and can get documents notarized in the times that work best for our schedules.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks whether or not a signer has viewed a document
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks when a signer has signed, and the document has been sent to the next signer
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign sends you confirmation emails and progress update emails along the way
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign provides a "confirmation of signing" page at the end of the document package you put together, to prove the signatures are authentic
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    Microsoft
    • Application integration is really good for single sign-on and managing identity overall. The correlation with Active Directory on-prem is really good, so we can manage it in a single place. It's easy to manage the users and integrate other Microsoft products. It is the base of everything else.
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    Notarize
    • Document validation
    • E-signature
    • Online verification
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Builds on Adobe platform so it is easy to utilize, but many features require enterprise subscription.
    • Integrations available but your CRM integration is only available with enterprise license.
    • Lots of templates but there are additional templates with enterprise only and there was no drag and drop editor.
    • Adobe captures some analytical metrics but many of the analytics we required were not available - specifically metrics related to how the tool converts and reduces use time by our team and the impact on clients.
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    Microsoft
    • I would like more risk policy suggestions. I guess that situation where we had outsourced employees in a country where somehow their location was changing too often, that we would have room to go, “Hey, this needs to be a lower risk.” Or maybe having easier options to let people log in when they're deemed high risk. It’s tricky because I feel like it’s really easy to do that wrong, but it’s the main area that I think could be improved. I guess also a little bit tighter administrative integration with other Microsoft products.
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    Notarize
    • Sometimes difficult for customers that aren’t tech savvy to navigate
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    It is by far the easiest service we have used to obtain digital signatures from employees. In the past we had done it by hand (a process I would not recommend for 1500+ employees) and with another company that would not allow us to create our own forms and would charge us for each form.
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    Microsoft
    MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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    Notarize
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    Usability
    Adobe
    I've had very little trouble with it in all my uses with it. I do wish the text boxes you add wouldn't cut off the text if you entered too many words and that it would adjust it's size to fit within the space you've provided. However, that just takes a little refining in the initial set up of the document before you send it out.
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    Microsoft
    From a user perspective, 10. From an admin perspective, 7 or 8. From the user perspective, it's very easy to use, but from the admin perspective, there's a lot of things that are not easily clear, testable, or verifiable without just trying a whole bunch of scenarios.
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    Notarize
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    I would have rated this a 9 or greater had they not had had such critical outages. They have taken steps to resolve this so I may come in and revise this
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    Microsoft
    There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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    Performance
    Adobe
    The Adobe Acrobat Sign's performance are excellent.
    When we send electronic document by email for signature all the customers receive it regularly, nobody has any issue to open it and the signature phase was very easy. The user-friendly aspect of this product reduce or reset the call for IT support
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    Microsoft
    I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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    Notarize
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    It is a great tool to get signatures from the client and has reduced a lot of overhead that was caused before resulting in very long delays. With the integration of Adobe Acrobat Sign, we have reduced this delay making the process much smoother and more efficient.
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    Microsoft
    I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    The best types of training are well integrated into the product and Echosign does this well. As mentioned earlier in my review - there are some areas of functionality that can be difficult to understand ("only I sign") for the novice user. Other areas such as macro usage, bulk signature and so on were easily learned and understood via the online tools.
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    Microsoft
    Most training was internally produced
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    Notarize
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    We did not use it in the manner that most companies do, so I am pleased with how our company handled implementation. We will be pushing the full company over into Echosign for various processes which will incorporate more of an implementation effect.
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    Microsoft
    Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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    Notarize
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    They are just different. Adobe's number one feature that puts it above it's competitors is that your document, the signing process, all of it exists within Adobe. There is no need to go from Word, to Adobe, to DocuSign. It saves you time and makes life easy for you (and for your clients).
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    Microsoft
    We've done stuff with Okta for Identity and Duo. Those would probably be the two big ones that I would say that people would recognize and stuff. There's some other smaller players we've talked to, but those are the two big ones that we play with. We're still using it. So, because it was integrated into everything we've already done, it just made it almost indispensable.
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    Notarize
    We looked at other services such as DocuSign Notary, OneNotary, ENotaryLog, and Notary Cam. Ultimately, it was clear that Notarize provided us with the most reliable, trustworthy, consistent, and professional services relative to the price. The ease of use and mobile-friendliness of the platform has made us feel proud of our decision. We have not since questioned it at anytime.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
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    Microsoft
    The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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    Notarize
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    At the beginning we assigned Adobe Acrobat Sign just to Purchase Office Department because at that moment we needed a tool that supported us to avoid manual signature and was compliance with remote working.
    Now we are using it also in other situation because it help us with time and we can also reduce cost
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    Microsoft
    Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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    Notarize
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    Professional Services
    Adobe
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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    Notarize
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Significantly reduced the time required for document signing processes reducing wasted time and effort
    • Cost savings since there is no longer any need to print and post/scan traditional signed paper-based documents
    • Faster decision-making since time-sensitive decisions and approvals can now be processed much more quickly by using e-signatures.
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    Microsoft
    • We are doing a lot of sign-ins and working on it, and it worked quite well. We do have Microsoft support, so yes, we can handle all of the small issues we are sometimes having. But if you want to define it, I would say yes, we like it. Overall positive.
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    Notarize
    • Time saving on processes
    • Quality of life service
    • Better employee experience
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Acrobat Sign Screenshots

    Screenshot of Send, sign, manage and archive documents with 100% legal e-signatures. Collecting e-signatures is as easy as swipe and tap with Adobe Sign. Sign from any device. Legally binding. Works with multiple apps. extremely cost-effective.Screenshot of Easily send e-signature requests to multiple recipients using Send in bulk feature.  Send a document to multiple people with one click, and every recipient gets their own personalized form ready to sign.Screenshot of Track and manage signatures with Adobe Acrobat Sign.  Get real-time visibility for every document out for signature, and receive notifications when documents have been signed.Screenshot of Create an online web form with Acrobat Sign.  It allows your recipients – whether they’re your employees or customers – to quickly access, complete, and sign critical documents without printing or mailing anything.  You will also get immediate access to the data and signatures.