| FormRouter and GeoTrust Offer First Hosted
Solution for Online Forms Supporting Digital Signatures
Partnership Broadens Companies’
Relationship Beyond Adobe Certified Document Solution
CARY, NC and NEEDHAM, Mass.—April 19, 2005— FormRouter,
Inc., a pioneer in hosted services for intelligent PDF forms,
and GeoTrust, the leader in identity verification solutions
for e-business, today announced a strategic partnership aimed
at reducing the barriers to the deployment of online PDF forms.
Under the agreement, FormRouter will be licensed to sell GeoTrust
digital signatures as part of a new hosted service designed
to simplify the creation, use and management of PDF forms.
FormRouter is an existing reseller for GeoTrust’s True
Credentials for Adobe Certified Document Solutions.
“By incorporating GeoTrust’s digital signature
technology as part of our offering, we can offer anyone using
PDF forms a complete hosted solution to support the deployment
of online forms,” said FormRouter founder and CTO, Jim
Healy. “The partnership represents another milestone
towards our goal of breaking down the barriers and making
intelligent PDF forms available to anyone.”
FormRouter’s hosted service options allow organizations
of all sizes to create and deploy online forms in minutes
with no programming and no servers. Submitted forms are processed
through the FormRouter server and delivered securely to the
form owner’s desktop database. Through an existing partnership
with Adobe Systems, FormRouter is licensed to enable usage
rights, in Adobe PDF documents, which allow individuals using
the free Adobe Reader to fill, sign, save and submit forms
incorporating digital signatures. “The partnership with
FormRouter should help eliminate many of the barriers organizations
encounter when deploying PDF forms with digital signatures,”
stated Steve Ryan, GeoTrust’s vice president business
development. “FormRouter’s hosted service solution
and their relationship with Adobe make this a cost effective
option to create and deploy online PDF forms.”.
FormRouter’s Reader Extensions Service enables usage
rights within PDF files that “turn on” functionality
within the ubiquitous Adobe Reader, available free of charge
and distributed more than 750 million times. When a user launches
a rights-enabled PDF document in Adobe Reader, the user has
access to advanced capabilities such as 2D barcodes, digital
signatures and saving the form offline. After the user completes
the form, those functions are disabled until the user receives
another rights-enabled PDF file.
About FormRouter
FormRouter’s hosted service lowers the cost and simplifies
the task of collecting data through forms. FormRouter subscribers
can deploy Adobe® PDF®, Microsoft® Excel®,
HTML, Macromedia® Flash and ASP.NET forms in minutes with
no servers and no programming. Encrypted form submissions
are delivered to the form owner’s desktop and may be
loaded directly into Microsoft Access®, SQL Server or
any ODBC compliant database. Integrated alerts support e-mail
notification, payment processing through VeriSign® and
Authorize.Net® and CRM integration with salesforce.com.
To learn more about FormRouter, visit the company’s
Web site at www.FormRouter.com
About GeoTrust, Inc.
GeoTrust is a leader in identity verification and trust services
for e-business. Its products include web security services
for secure e-commerce transactions, identity verification,
managed security services and TrustWatch (www.trustwatch.com),
a free toolbar and search site that helps consumers recognize
whether a site has been verified and is safe for the exchange
of confidential information. With more than 70,000 companies
in over 140 countries using its technology for online security,
GeoTrust has rapidly become the second largest digital certificate
provider in the world. Visit www.geotrust.com or www.geotrusteurope.com.
GeoTrust is a registered trademark of GeoTrust, Inc. All other
product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.
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