Alliances and Partnerships

IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) acquired Webify Solutions (Austin, Texas) in order to integrate Webify's service-oriented architecture capabilities into the IBM WebSphere brand.

DocuSign (Seattle) has chosen Verid's (Ft. Lauderdale) interactive Knowledge Based Authentication service to provide third-party identity verification for Docusign's electronic signature service.

Arcot Systems (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Adobe Systems (San Jose, Calif.) have teamed to create Roaming Digital IDs, applications in Adobe Acrobat software and Adobe Reader software that enable secure digital signing with two-factor authentication.

Ebix (Atlanta) will acquire Finetre (Herndon, Va.) and merge it with the EbixLife subsidiary to expand Ebix's life insurance sales illustration products and life insurance transaction processing offerings.

AMS Services (Bothell, Wash.) joined ImageRight's (Conyers, Ga.) Business Alliance Program to offer document management solutions to agents and brokers.

Microsoft (Redmond, Wash.) and Citrix Systems (Ft. Lauderdale) partnered to create a multifunction Citrix branch office networking appliance based on the Windows Server OS and Internet Security and Acceleration Server.