e-Signature Leader, EchoSign, Recommends Nitro PDF Professional, Companies Announce Partnership

"No easier, more-cost effective way to generate PDF documents and forms to sign online."

March 24, 2009

Nitro PDF Software, the company that revolutionized the PDF space with its launch of the first alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, today announced a co-marketing partnership with EchoSign, a leading provider of web-based electronic signatures and signature automation. Under the terms of the partnership, EchoSign will promote Nitro PDF Professional among its users as the alternative to Acrobat for PDF creation and editing, while Nitro, in turn, will endorse and recommend EchoSign's electronic signature services and solutions. EchoSign users are eligible for special discounted pricing on Nitro PDF Professional, and the companies are also planning a more integrated technology partnership that leverages the clear synergy between the two solution offerings.

"We’re delighted with EchoSign's endorsement and support of Nitro Pro," stated Sam Chandler, Nitro PDF's CEO. "The company offers the best electronic signature service available today and EchoSign's commitment to best-of-breed products, innovation, and service quality aligns perfectly with the Nitro brand."

"Our 700,000 users have long been looking for a cost-effective solution for authoring PDF documents and PDF forms, in particular. Nitro is the answer. With Nitro Pro, in just a few clicks, they can quickly create extremely easy-to-use PDF forms for electronic signature. Nitro Pro forms 'just work' for our users and it's easy to recommend Nitro for all their PDF needs."

About Nitro PDF Software

Nitro PDF Software is one of the world's leading PDF software vendors and the company behind Nitro PDF Professional, the first true alternative to Adobe Acrobat. Headquartered in San Francisco, Nitro PDF Software has operations spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Competitively priced, Nitro PDF Professional provides users full control over PDF documents, including commenting, form-filling and authoring, digital signatures, text editing, one-click creation from Microsoft® Office and more. Nitro PDF Software products have won multiple "Product of the Year" and "Top Buy" awards, are seen in retail stores around the globe, and are used by millions of people worldwide including a significant number of Fortune 500 organizations.

About EchoSign

In just one click, the EchoSign solution automates the entire e-signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, there is simply no faster or secure way to get your contracts signed, tracked and filed. EchoSign customers close over $100M in contracts each month with an average 'quote to close' time of 42 minutes. EchoSign has won numerous awards including Red Herring and JMP Securities’ Top 100 Private Company, "One to Watch" by Gartner Research, and has been named by Salesforce.com as "Best App of 2008" and a Force.com AppExchange Essential a record three times. Over 700,000 users at leading small businesses and global leaders such as British Telecom, Qualcomm, GE Capital, Dell, Lennar Homes, Time Warner, and the University of California use EchoSign's electronic signatures everyday to get contracts signed, tracked, and filed in the most efficient and effective way possible. For more information, please visit www.echosign.com.

Contacts

Miranda Burford - Marketing Analyst
Nitro PDF Software
miranda.burford@nitropdf.com
www.nitropdf.com