A study commissioned by Adobe for India reveals how e-signatures are set to fundamentally change the way India does business, and augment the Government’s national digital transformation drive. Featuring data from a September 2017 Adobe-commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting, the Adobe E-signatures Indian Market Study found that the market for e-signatures in India is growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 57%, and is expected to cross over a massive 90 million transactions by 2020. Building on the potential widespread adoption of e-signatures in India, Adobe has announced two strategic investments made by the company for the Indian market – integration of Aadhaar-based authentication in its e-signature solution Adobe Sign, and the launch of a local data centre.
“According to the Adobe market sizing survey, more than 85% companies in India are looking at investing in e-signature solutions in the next 12 months. With around 30% market penetration, and about 70% of companies yet to start their e-signature journey and reap the many rewards, the Aadhaar-based authentication built in Adobe Sign is the industry’s first solution to make e-signatures legally binding in India. This legal validity will spur adoption among businesses that have so far had to limit the use of e-signatures to internal use, and allow them to truly transform digitally. We are confident that this Aadhaar-based signing in Adobe Sign will accelerate use-cases like digital onboarding of customers and employees, and taking citizen services online – augmenting our national vision on Digital India,” said Kulmeet Bawa, Managing Director, South Asia, Adobe.
Aadhaar-based e-signature in Adobe Sign will help organizations eliminate their dependence on wet signatures, and transform workflows by digitally validating the legal identity of users to sign documents – anytime, anywhere. This will play a critical role in helping businesses become resource efficient and unburden them of lengthy administrative procedures involved in documentation and approvals, and most importantly, allow them to deliver an exceptional experience to their end users. While the electronic signature market in India is still in the early stages of adoption – according to the report, nearly 55% of those surveyed believe that an e-signature solution could save up between 10-25% of IT operating costs (compared to running paper-based processes) as well as labour and time savings of their employees directly involved in the process. For customers, this will introduce a hassle-free, secure, and convenient way of signing documents digitally.
As per the study, 57% of Indian businesses indicate that if they were to adopt a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution, they would prefer for its hosting location to be in India. In response to the market requirements, and to further invest in the adoption of e-signatures in India, Adobe has announced the rollout of a new local data center in India, placing the computing power closer to end-users.
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