Adobe Acrobat Sign vs. Microsoft Teams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Acrobat Sign
Score 8.2 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 Teams
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
$4.80
per month per user
Pricing
Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Teams
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
Microsoft Teams Essentials
$4.80
per month per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month (paid yearly) per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$7.20
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$15
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Teams
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$34.99 license per monthNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are available for non profit organizations.
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Community Pulse
Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Teams
Considered Both Products
Adobe Acrobat Sign
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
Adobe Acrobat Sign is simple to use, streamlines document creation, and makes documents look better. It allows users to customize fields, set required and optional fields, and quickly generate web forms and PDFs. Templates can be saved to make sending the same document to many …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
AdobeSign and DocuSign offered similar feature sets at similar price points. We were swayed by AdobeSign's smoother integration with the Microsoft suite, especially Teams.
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
It's pretty similar to DocuSign, although it feels a bit more basic and simple in its interface than DocuSign does (which I think is a good thing). The layout makes it very easy to find your outstanding contracts that are waiting for signatures and with a click of one button, I …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
I honestly cannot remember the previous 3rd parties that we used for electronic signature, but I do know they didn't stack up to the ease of use we have with Adobe Sign. The customization options alone are worth the price as well as the clear ease of use for our candidates.
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
We opted for Adobe Sign because of its efficiency, price, and ease of use. It's also easier to save executed documents to our local servers than DocuSign.

We do use Concord for formal contract signatures, and it works pretty well for that. However, licenses are limited and …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
While DocuSign has better integration capabilities than Adobe Sign, we chose Adobe Sign due to its competitive pricing for an enterprise license. Moreover, most of our use cases were addressed through just logging into Adobe Sign and preparing / sending documents, rather than …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
It's been a while since we used SignNow, but as I recall Adobe Sign had better features and more friendly user interface. We wanted to be able to load multiple different forms into a packet and have shared fields carry through the document, so that when someone entered their …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
DocuSign was on our shortlist with Adobe Sign for our e-signature provider as they both had the most features. DocuSign had some issues:
  • It was actually more expensive once receiving enterprise quotes from both. We actually expected it to be cheaper based on their web site prices.
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
Adobe Sign primarily beat out DocuSign in terms of price. I think the functionality of DocuSign is more user friendly, I had an easier time navigating it than I did with Adobe Sign at the start. After evaluating both software, we determined that Adobe Sign's scope and scale …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
We looked into Docusign prior to signing up with Adobe Sign. We received a better deal with Adobe Sign, with more flexibility in terms of the number of sends we needed.
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
Adobe interacts better with our version of Salesforce CRM.
Microsoft Teams

No answer on this topic

Features
Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Teams
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Acrobat Sign
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
7.8
233 Ratings
0% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings7.8172 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.590 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.9200 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.0120 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.1221 Ratings
Search00 Ratings7.3204 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.3137 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Acrobat Sign
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
7.9
242 Ratings
1% below category average
Chat00 Ratings8.9241 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings8.2240 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings8.5227 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings8.0138 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings8.5151 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings6.547 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings5.743 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings9.1155 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Acrobat Sign
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
8.0
227 Ratings
0% below category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.4160 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.2194 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.6193 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.7207 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings8.5189 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings8.3149 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings5.353 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings8.4163 Ratings
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Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Teams
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Troop Messenger
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
DocuSign
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Teams
Likelihood to Recommend
4.7
(228 ratings)
8.4
(281 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(30 ratings)
3.7
(9 ratings)
Usability
3.7
(194 ratings)
8.7
(67 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(164 ratings)
8.3
(113 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(7 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.3
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Acrobat SignMicrosoft Teams
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
It is well-suited for an organization with many team members who are scattered throughout different locations. It offers organization and clarity to projects, files, and tasks in one centralized location. It would be a bit of an overkill for a small organization where everyone is in the same location 5 days a week
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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
  • Makes communication and collaboration easier through Chat.
  • Lets us personalize and humanize face-to-face interactions through Meetings.
  • Helps me effectively plan out my day through Calendar.
  • Enables us to safely store and access our information through OneDrive.
  • Simplifies calls and voice communication.
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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
  • the calendar function can improve it's not 100% feature parody with outlook.
  • Better search for documents and contact with AI
  • offer the same security for document sharing as is available in outlook. Especially concerning PII and documents shared to "external" contacts.
  • Contact is hidden away in "Calls" and needs to be better exposed like it use too.
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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
Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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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
If you have the full Microsoft Office suite, it works really well because it's integrated well within its ecosystem, but if not, it can be annoying because it tries to open a shared file in the web versions of the file equivalents. The web version is also a bit slow, and the login is very difficult to handle if you have multiple Microsoft or Outlook accounts.
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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
Rare, but outages do happen
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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
Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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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
The overall support provided by Microsoft for Microsoft Teams has been quite good but there is still some room for improvements. Microsoft needs to proactively work on fixing the open bugs in order to provide a seamless experience to the users. But over the service and experience provided by the Microsoft team have been quite satisfactory.
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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
No answers on this topic
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
I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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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
Microsoft Teams offers a much more integrated experience between their chat and video call function compared to Google Chat and Slack. Both other tools are much better for internal communications are they have simpler UI without other features. Whereas Microsoft Teams can be used for more critical conversations, particularly between external companies, and has been very useful in sales conversations which is what we chose it for when speaking to companies that work exclusively through Microsoft.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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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
It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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Professional Services
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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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
  • Because our unit decided to go all in with Microsoft Products, the integration and flow of our communication and files are seamless.
  • Microsoft Teams is very secure. Only those who are logged in with their university credentials can access the files we share and the events we host. Therefore, we don't have to worry about privacy and security for the virtual events we host.
  • If our virtual events are open to the public, joiners outside the organization often struggle to join because Microsoft Teams is not the most familiar tool amongst the public.
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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.