Adobe continues to ramp up services with new eSignature agreement

The software giant is taking advantage of the Covid demand of online verification with the agreement

Online identity verification company Digidentity has announced it has signed a resale agreement with Adobe.

The agreement enables Adobe to resell Digidentity's Advanced and Qualified Electronic signatures as part of the Adobe Sign service offering.

"We are very pleased to simplify the buying experience for our customers by offering the ability to purchase Advanced and Qualified digital certificates from Digidentity as part of their Adobe contract," said Adobe senior director, International Product Marketing & GTM, Alex Hayward.

"Customers can use Digidentity to streamline e-signing experiences with cloud signatures, helping ensure that each signer's identity is fully verified and authenticated."

Founded in 2008 and based in the Netherlands, Digidentity claims to provide a "smoother" and "more versatile" onboarding process, including real-time remote registration and a self-service portal to manage account lifecycles and invite users, using its Remote Identification (Advanced and Qualified) assurance service,

With Adobe's global reach, Digidentity says the agreement enables it to further strengthen its position across key markets, expanding its commercial reach and accelerating growth.

It added Adobe is one of the biggest suppliers of electronic signatures, and with the partnership between Digidentity within Adobe, clients can sign documents with Advanced (AES) or Qualified (QES) signatures on their existing contract.

Digidentity is a Qualified Trust Service Provider in accordance with eIDAS.

"Digidentity is recognised for its technologically advanced product and international position within the market," said its CTO and founder, Marcel Wendt.

"We are extremely excited that having Ourt journey started with the introduction of the first Qualified Cloud based signing back in 2011. Since that time we‘ve grown and evolved into a scalable, global solution. This agreement with Adobe enables us to provide on a larger scale our Qualified certificates within the Digidentity Identity wallet."