eSignature Makes Summer Sizzle! DocuSign in the News

Sailing, sun, and eSignatures - summer's heating up and so are the wires! What are people talking about when they're talking about electronic signatures? I did a brief search, and here's what I discovered...

Electronic Signatures in Real Estate: Doing Real Estate Deals Anywhere, With Mobile
Inman News: DocuSign beefs up mobile capabilities: Users can digitize documents with iPhone camera

...The latest version of DocuSign's electronic signature management platform offers the ability to markup documents during negotiations, and also includes "designed for mobile" functionality for Apple's iPhone and iPad and Android mobile devices, the company said today.

DocuSign for iPhone and iPad allows users to access documents from Google Docs, Box.net, and other cloud-based services. Apple iPhone users can digitize paper documents by snapping pictures of them with their phone, allowing them to add "sign here" tabs and collect electronic signatures from their clients.

"E-mail to signature" capabilities allow users to forward documents they receive as e-mail attachments to an e-mail address for conversion into DocuSign "electronic envelopes" that can be signed from anywhere in the world....

Florida Realtor: How To Go Paperless

..."With the introduction of digital signatures, you can now sit at your desk and send out contracts for signature anywhere in the world," [Kevin] Gallagher notes that with digital signatures - he uses DocuSign - you don't have to "print documents, make arrangements to meet clients, obtain signatures and forward the documents to the buyer or seller. ...

Close it in the Cloud: Electronic Signatures Enables You To Close Deals Entirely in the Cloud
Cloud Computing Journal: DocuSign and Salesforce.com Create Cloud Transactions for Customers

...“Our work with DocuSign is moving the last mile of business transactions, contract signatures, to Cloud 2,” said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer, salesforce.com. “Bringing together Salesforce CRM and Salesforce Chatter with DocuSign's e-signature technology will deliver real-time collaboration around contract workflow processes, helping customers close deals entirely in the cloud.”

As demonstrated last week at Cloudforce 2010 in San Jose by salesforce.com's Marc Benioff and DocuSign's Tom Gonser, the DocuSign eSignature service offers users the ability to leverage data within Salesforce CRM and is enabled with Salesforce Chatter for real-time visibility and updates. Users can follow others and follow deals as the information is pushed in real-time. Whether it is a contract, acknowledgement or approval requiring one or more signatures, virtually everyone within an organization needs to get a document signed. With DocuSign being Salesforce Chatter-enabled, employees across the entire organization can collaborate during the e-signing process, delivering cost and workflow efficiencies. ...

Cloud Computing.Info: DocuSign partners with Salesforce and Box.net

...The whole process is completely web-based, and customers can access the DocuSign platform for document and signatures management through a PC, a tablet or a smartphone.

Last week the company announced an OEM partnership with Salesforce, to integrate the eSignature technology in CRM and the new Chatter service.
The integration with DocuSign will be also available for those customers that will create custom applications on the Salesforce Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud: Force.com

Also last week DocuSign secured a similar partnership with Box.net, a popular storage-as-a-service cloud computing provider in the consumer market.
Box.net goes beyond file sharing and synchronization, offering project collaboration and workflow management for business customers. Box.net customers can now sign all their documents through the eSignature process. ...

Electronic Signature: A Technology Trend
VentureBeat: DocuSign adds more tools to make printed contracts obsolete

...Seattle-based DocuSign today announced of the latest update to its electronic signature tools. The big vision, according to founder and chief strategy officer Tom Gonser, is to treat electronic signatures as a platform (yes, tech companies love that word) rather than "just a single e-sign product."

In other words, DocuSign wants to do more than provide the technology to replace handwritten signatures with electronic ones. Today, for example, it's revealing new collaborative features. Previously, DocuSign users would send out a document for signature, and the recipient could either sign it or refuse. That doesn't reflect what is often a more complicated process filled with last-minute changes, and it creates a risk where, in Gonser's words, customers will say, "Let's put on the brakes, let's print it out," and therefore "fall out of the electronic process." ...

ZDNet: DocuSign launches new tools to entice greater e-signature adoption

...If you've ever had to sign your life away to buy or sell a house, take out a loan or finalize a sales agreement, you know what a tedious process it can be to actually sit and sign your name over and over and over again.

What makes it really unfortunate is that there is a better way. And it's been around for exactly 10 years. It was on June 30, 2000 that then-President Bill Clinton signed the Electronic Signatures in Global National Commerce (ESIGN) Act.

To commemorate the occasion, Docusign, a provider of an e-signature platform, is releasing of Docusign Spring 10, a major upgrade to its service. It's adding things like voice biometrics as another method of identity confirmation and Agent role, a tool that allows a real estate agent, for example, to manage and review documents for a client and then submit them. ...

PC Magazine: DocuSign Releases Updated Version of E-Signature Software

...DocuSign announced the new software as part of its ESIGN customer summit here. The company asked President Bill Clinton to speak about his work with electronic signatures in conjunction with his foundation's charity work, while Salesforce.com also announced that it had made a strategic investment into DocuSign alongside an existing investment by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

We've come a long way from my parents' generation, where a fax would have been welcome technology for them, said Gary Thomas, the 2011 vice-president elect of the NAR. ...

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