LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES — in depth

Adobe® LiveCycle® Digital Signatures ES software delivers digital signature capabilities in a server environment, enabling your organization to bring more paper-based processes online, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction — all while providing document authenticity and integrity.

Key capabilities

Automate business processes more securely

LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES enables your business to bring paper-based business processes online by providing digital signature and encryption capabilities in a server environment. With Digital Signatures ES, you can more securely automate essential business processes that previously relied on expensive and time-consuming paper-based documents and physical delivery, helping to increase employee productivity and customer satisfaction.

Enhance the authenticity and integrity of documents

With LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES, your organization can process large volumes of digitally signed and certified Adobe PDF documents in batch or bulk — on the server — saving time and expense. Before a transaction is processed, LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES checks whether a document has been altered and was approved by the correct person, validating the authenticity and integrity of content as well as the signer's digital identity.

Assist in meeting regulatory requirements

With LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES, you can incorporate electronic forms and documents into existing business processes — while doing more to meet regulatory requirements for information security and privacy. When Digital Signatures ES receives an Adobe PDF document, it opens the document and validates it based on the signature status, enhancing the security of all documents — even those sent from beyond the enterprise firewall.

Leverage existing IT investments

LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES allows organizations that have deployed a PKI or smart-card solution to leverage these existing technology investments to encrypt and decrypt documents. Using LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES, you can encrypt system-generated documents for distribution and automatically decrypt submitted documents, helping to prevent unauthorized individuals from reading document content. Digital Signatures ES also provides bulk digital signature capabilities for Adobe PDF documents using Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for high-performance cryptographic functions.