Go paperless

Taking your firm on a journey from paper-heavy to paper-light is increasingly essential. The Microsoft Surface suite of products combines with Adobe Acrobat to help your business meet its targets and ensure the highest standards of professionalism.

Click the icons below to explore four key competitive advantages:

Accelerate productivity and efficiency​
Ensure the highest security standards​
Enhance human experiences​
Improve sustainability efforts


Use the top navigation bar to explore this interactive presentation and discover the benefits this powerful partnership brings to your business.

Accelerate productivity and efficiency

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Business leaders are moving the lever from investment to cost control; managers are being tasked to streamline and rationalise, stakeholders are demanding decisive action to find more savings, more efficiencies; eliminate waste and to automate.



gained in productivity per employee per device over three years when adopting Microsoft Surface due to performance upgrades and fewer IT issues​.*
transactions with Adobe Acrobat Sign and 47% more efficient back-office work​ **
* IDC TCO report, Sept 2022  ** TEI Acrobat Sign January 2022
Unlock productivity with powerful PDF capabilities
Transform client experience​

Rapid inflation in paper and postage costs is a valuable reason to replace paper with digital workflows. ​

Adobe Acrobat is the complete multi-device PDF solution. Its powerful features can transform time-consuming paper documents into seamless digital workflows: ​

View, share, comment on and track PDFs for review.

  • Turn paper or Word files into fillable forms.
  • Redact to permanently remove sensitive information in PDFs.
  • Turn scanned paper documents into searchable and editable PDFs.
  • Save time with access to the best PDF tools everywhere you go — available on desktops, phones, tablets, and web.

Cost savings made can offset or be invested into Microsoft Surface devices and Adobe Acrobat Pro.

The combination of Microsoft Surface devices and Adobe Acrobat Sign can elevate client experiences and set your firm apart from competitors.

With Microsoft Surface devices, employees can move effortlessly between the back and front office. The Slim Pen is embedded into the keyboard of new Microsoft Surface Pro devices, eliminating the need to hunt for pens during client meetings. Digital inking ensures full searchable documents in the future and an opportunity for multiple employees to view them at all times, no matter where they’re working.

Adobe Acrobat Sign, Microsoft’s preferred e-signature solution, can transform signature workflows and increase transaction speeds by up to 30%.**. All designed to create frictionless client experiences.

Ensure the highest security standards

Hybrid working and hot desking are the future of work. As a result, more documents are being shared collaboratively as they travel outside of the secured environment of the office space. This trend creates a need to better understand, secure, and enforce a proper electronic document security policy.

reduction in security breach costs.*
reduction in security breach volume.*
Adobe Acrobat Sign is the world’s most trusted e-signature solution.
Did you know that HM Land Registry (HMLR) accepts electronic signatures on transfers and other registrable deeds?**
* TEI Microsoft Surface 2018  ** Electronic Signature Laws & Regulations - England, Wales & Northern Ireland (adobe.com)
Watertight security
Proven & trusted
Always a safe bet

Microsoft Surface solutions enable: ​

  • Easy governance of employees’ remote equipment.
  • Simple deployment and configuration out of the box.
  • Enhanced security features built in.
  • Surface is one of the only OEMs to write its own firmware, giving chip-to-cloud security.

Adobe’s enterprise-level security reduces your risk and helps you meet compliance — no matter your industry or where you do business.

Are digital signatures legal? Absolutely.

Digital signatures comply with regulations around the world and provide the highest level of identity assurance when dealing with digital documents.

Adobe Acrobat Sign solutions can also be configured to meet industry-specific regulations around the world. The bottom line? With Adobe, you don’t need to worry.

There is a great deal of pressure to invest wisely and expectations for continuous improvement and ROI.

With Microsoft Surface solutions and Adobe Acrobat you’re not only investing in two of the most reliable productivity brands in the world but also some of the most innovative solutions out there too.

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e-signature legalities England and Wales

e-signature legalities Scotland

Enhance human experiences

Employees and clients have adjusted their expectations in line with the always-on economy of apps, e-commerce, food delivery and streaming entertainment. Your responses to them needs to be frictionless: quick and right first time.

Exceptional experiences
Empowering employees

Accessibility for all is critical. Adobe Acrobat accessibility features allow universal access to documents. This includes access for people who are mobility impaired, blind, low vision, deaf, hard of hearing, dyslexic or who have cognitive impairments.

In addition to this, with more people using mobiles for business – work and personal, Adobe Liquid Mode makes mobile PDFs more responsive to your needs. You can search text within the document, expand its images, and — to make it even easier on the eyes — alter the font size and spacing between words to suit your reading preference. Ideal for reading and checking lengthy documents.

With Microsoft Surface and Adobe Acrobat your employees will feel empowered, making the customer experience more seamless, less error-prone and can only have a positive impact on your organisation.

Moving between devices and re-entering data (by either your employees or clients) always introduces errors. Errors cause frustrations and can make the client think you are not paying attention to them, costing you money and your reputation. With Microsoft Surface devices you can easily move from back to front office in an instant and maintain professionalism.

Adobe Liquid Mode

Improve sustainability efforts

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A paperless or paper light business is a sound and important environmental practice, but it also contributes to better, more efficient business operations. Running document workflows in the cloud and selecting the right hardware reduces your organisation’s environmental impact.

 

 

said Adobe Acrobat Sign helped advance their organisation’s sustainability efforts.*
By 2030, 100% of Microsoft’s energy supply, 100% of the time, will come from 0 carbon resources.

 

* TEI Acrobat Sign January 2022
Reducing carbon footprint
Protecting the environment

By introducing digital workflows, digital inking and eSignatures, processes can become paperless. What’s more, employees can take notes and mark up documents on the go using the Microsoft Surface Slim Pen instead of printing – saving paper, ink and toner.

Moving to a paperless environment will naturally reduce your carbon footprint. Combined with virtual meetings you have the power to lower carbon emissions. Another step in the right direction for your sustainability strategy.

Microsoft’s long-term commitment to sustainability is reflected in the Surface device line-up, from manufacturing practices to recyclable packaging to reuse and refurbishment programmes around the globe. Microsoft are committed to ensuring that Surface devices last longer and are therefore better for the environment.

Adobe’s commitment to sustainability starts with their products, helping customers operate more efficiently while reducing their environmental impacts. Innovations like cloud-based software delivery, paperless workflows and virtual collaboration, all help to reduce physical waste and cut emissions from transportation and delivery.

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Microsoft Surface sustainability

Microsoft are the only global device vendor with direct and real time device emissions calculator.


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Resource saver

Calculate your estimated environmental savings by avoiding paper use.

Carbon footprint

Using the e-signature carbon footprint calculator, you can estimate the difference for e-signatures versus paper agreements.


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Legal industry advantages

Employees rely on modern workplace technologies for both collaboration and peace of mind, while having higher expectations for purpose-driven business cultures.

employees are 64% more likely to leave their jobs because of uneven access to modern digital tools.*
of millennials consider sustainability when deciding where to work.**

First impression versus the right impression

When employees meet clients for the first time, they must make the right impression. A premium, quality device and streamlined digital workflow ensures professionalism and confidence.

* Adobe Future of Time September 2022  ** Microsoft Ola Fagerström Surface & Sustainability for Channel

Reduce your costs and carbon footprint

No need to purchase reems of paper, toner, or stationery. You won’t even have to pay for unreliable postage or waste time waiting for documents to be delivered.

Ensure your documents are secure and compliant

Mitigate risk by embedding security into your workflows, protect files to meet regulatory requirements and leverage legally binding e-Signatures.

Increase productivity and efficiency

Fixed fee services will transform into seamless digital workflows, providing improved client experiences and more profitable services.

Financial industry advantages

In the financial services industry, times are changing faster than ever before. Traditional financial institutions must work faster, smarter and transform experiences at every level to compete.

A growing number of customers fully expect to perform their financial-related tasks digitally and with ease. Financial services firms investing in experience transformation are outperforming their competition by a serious margin.

of financial services firms’ value experience. Leading firms say improving the experience of customers and prospects is a top priority in the next 12 months for maximizing their ROI.*

First impression versus the right impression

When employees meet clients for the first time, they must make the right impression. A premium, quality device and streamlined digital workflow ensures professionalism and confidence.

*Forester Consulting. The Business Impact of Investing in Experience: A Spotlight on Financial.

Reduce business costs and carbon footprint

Going paperless delivers a fast and reliable service. No need to purchase unsustainable resources like paper, toner, postage, and stationery. Better for you, your customers, and the environment.

Ensure documents are secure and compliant

Mitigate risk by embedding security into your workflows, protect files to meet regulatory requirements and leverage legally binding e-Signatures.

Increase productivity and efficiency

Applications will transform into seamless digital workflows, providing faster approvals and improved customer experiences.

Customer quotes

“We have reduced paper use by one third annually by switching to Surface devices and using Teams for store communications and we expect to see that impact grow as we deploy more digital tools to the frontline workforce.”

Scott Townend, Programme Manager, Marks & Spencer

“We take our Microsoft Surfaces wherever we go so we are truly mobile, with one primary device.”

Risk Alkunshalie: Head of Group Technology, Manchester Airports Group

“We started using Acrobat Sign in March 2020 when we started in lockdown with the pandemic, and consumers couldn’t go to branches. It was brilliant at the time and continues to be for us.” *

Analysis and Design Manager, Financial Services ​

“One of the big attractions for us was the flexibility of customers not having to telephone or come to our branches with requests. Transactions that would have taken a week to flow through take less than half a day now, and customers were blown away by that.” *

Head of Analysis and Design, Financial Services

 

* TEI Acrobat Sign January 2022

Statistical outcomes

 

gained per employee, per device over three years when adopting Microsoft Surface. Due to increased performance and reduced IT issues.

IDC TCO report, Sept 2022

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increased transaction speed with Adobe Acrobat Sign.

TEI Acrobat Sign January 2022

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faster deployment to employees with Microsoft Surface.

IDC TCO Report Sep 22

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Did you know that HM Land Registry (HMLR) accepts electronic signatures on transfers and other registrable deeds?*

*On the condition that they satisfy HMLR’s practice requirements.

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of millennials consider sustainability when deciding where to work.

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of organisations have increased commitments to sustainable procurement within the last 3 years.

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said Adobe Acrobat Sign helped advance their organisations’ sustainability efforts.

TEI Acrobat Sign January 2022

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Four stages of paperless adoption

 

Step 1​

Internal champions

Create a group of internal champions to support colleagues during the transition and drive a paperless environment.

Ensure processes are documented and communicated clearly internally.

Step 2​

Start small

Equip your champions with a Microsoft Surface 2-in-1 device with Slim Pen.

Lean on them to help evangelise the benefits of digital inking and to support colleagues with adoption.

Step 3​

Right tech for the job

Invest in Adobe Acrobat, allowing employees to truly experience the power of digital workflows and eSignatures.

Step 4​

Prioritise clients

Your clients will experience the benefits immediately.

Prioritise processes and employees who interact with clients. Share success stories and feedback internally about the impact it’s having.

Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface 2-in-1 Devices offer flexible form factors, touch screen and world-class digital inking with the Surface Slim Pen 2. Click the play icon to view product videos.

Surface Pro 9
Surface Laptop Studio
Surface Go 3
Surface Laptop 5
Surface Pro 8
Premium laptops designed by Microsoft

Adobe Acrobat

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Webinars

Join us for an immersive, customized experience presented live from our production studio. We’ll show how the powerful combination of Surface devices and the Adobe suite can help transform and modernize the way you work.

23rd Feb - WATCH RECORDING

Move to Paperless with Microsoft and Adobe for Legal Professionals

23rd Mar - WATCH RECORDING

Move to Paperless with Microsoft and Adobe for Financial Professionals