I was a little intrigued by a post news blogger Alan Gray published recently citing the insight of Gerald Celente – the World’s Leading Trend Forecaster. In November 2007, Celente predicted “The Panic of ‘08″ as a Top Trend for 2008 and last month he issued his prediction for the Top Trend of 2009… “The [...]

 This year was a first for DocuSign and VRMA 2008 – or ‘Vacation Rental Manager’s Association’ annual conference held in sunny Phoenix, AZ this year. We’re very pleased to have participated and now that things have calmed down a bit there are a few show takeaways we thought were interesting.
Most notably, was how surprised we [...]

Account openings, loan applications, mortgage processes…the financial industry is one of the most ‘contract and paper-laden’ sectors in business today. DocuSign recently received an email from PA-based Utilities Employees Credit Union – a DocuSign customer who credits DocuSign’s electronic signature and on-demand contract execution services for some pretty dramatic improvements in their banking operations.
UECU is [...]

CNN Money Staff Reporter David Goldman wrote an eye-opening report last Friday about the on-going economic crisis and widespread announcements of corporate job cuts, suggesting we will all see a worsening economy before we see a recovering one. What does this say to those of us still employed? One thing that comes across loud and [...]

At DocuSign, CUSTOMER IS KING, and we are – of course – their biggest fans. So you can imagine how honored we felt when we received this very cool YouTube video which was created by one of two of our most loyal DocuSign users. It looks like the ‘love’ goes both ways so we wanted [...]

Psst… tomorrow DocuSign will deploy release 41 of the leading Enterprise Contract Execution (ECE) platform, with some really powerful new features that further extends our lead in this market. This post is a sneak peek into some of the new capabilities, so don’t tell anyone.
Smart Envelopes – Enterprise customers with more complicated workflows can now [...]

With the introduction of DocuSign Connect for Salesforce this week, two of the most powerful cloud services can now work seamlessly together.
At the Dreamforce conference here in San Francisco the story is all about the ‘Cloud’ – and more specifically the Platform as a Service (PaaS) in the Cloud and the power of this new [...]

This week, DocuSign announced DocuSign Connect which is a suite of application integration services that allow SMBs, enterprises, and vendors to integrate DocuSign’s electronic signature and online contract execution platform into any 3rd party or in-house business application; including CRM, ERP, ERM, BPM, and CLP systems.
This week’s announcement is an excellent example of how we [...]

As a founder of DocuSign, I keep my eyes open for comments about how people use DocuSign, watching blogs and comments made by customers. Over the past year the blogosphere chatter has grown pretty dramatically.
It appears that the world is becoming aware of the dramatic improvement that secure electronic transactions have over the old fashioned [...]

As I mentioned in my post earlier this month on the high-cost of overnight shipping, the players in that market are in trouble. It hasn’t taken long for the impact of higher fuel prices to manifest itself at FedEx, the carrier most dependent on its overnight letter business.
When it costs $55 to send a contract [...]