When I go to the local home improvement store, they have a funny little ‘signing’ process they make me go through.  They want me to ‘sign’ on one of those checkout pads when I use my credit card.  Apparently, this prevents people from stealing my card and using it without my permission.  Nice idea, but [...]

A lot of business applications today are starting to use commercial web services. The ubiquity of connectivity allows us to move mission critical business processes outside of our internal firewalls to cut down on maintenance, increase reliability, create more feature rich applications and get instant updates.

Whether or not your application is installed or delivered as a service, integration with web services such as the ones delivered by DocuSign requires a shift in user interface, support and architecture.

The cost of adopting the new paradigms are often less then the benefits you receive by utilizing the services oriented architecture (SOA). In this post we will examine the benefits, architecture considerations, implementation guidelines and support for an application integrated with DocuSign web services.

The target audience of this post are enterprise software architects and technical project managers that are designing an integration with DocuSign web services.

Continuing on the theme of award winning technology, one of our customers, Lightner Property Group (LPG), won the San Francisco Small Business Network (SBN) Technology Innovation Award. Lightner Property Group named DocuSign as one of the technology tools it uses:
LPG (http://www.lightnergroup.com) won the SBN technology innovation award for its use of Web-based tools including [...]

 We’re pleased to receive another recognition for our electronic signature and online contract execution services. Network Products Guide has named DocuSign the winner of the Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Awards in the Electronic Contract Execution (ECE) Category, for DocuSign® Corporate Edition. This annual award honors information technology vendors from around the world for their innovative [...]

 We’re very pleased to be named to the “Red Herring 100″ for excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation in North American technology companies. A list of 200 finalists were culled from a list of hundreds of candidates and last week, 100 were announced. We’re proud to be named one of the year’s most promising private technology ventures in North America.

The Red Herring editorial team [...]

The demand for on-demand electronic signature and online contract execution continues to grow in 2009. DocuSign has hit some tremendous milestones as we help our customers completely replace the expensive and inefficient processes of printing, transporting, signing, tracking, storing paper contracts and capturing business data.
Our customers report:

Immediately lowering operating costs up [...]

Yesterday, we learned our industry leading on-demand electronic signature and electronic contract execution solutions resulted in finalist status of the “Red Herring 100 North America” award. We’re honored to be included on this prestigious list recognizing the year’s most promising private technology ventures in North America.

The Red Herring editorial [...]

Adequate auditing and sealing technologies make determining the authenticity of an electronic copy of an electronic record easy. Electronic copies of DocuSign transactions are digitally signed to ensure the integrity of versions of the electronic records that exist outside of the DocuSign system.
Like their paper counterparts, however, electronic records pose authenticity challenges when they are [...]