If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Our very own Tom Gonser, co-founder and VP of Product Strategy, spoke about esignature and online contract execution on NetworkWorld.TV
He discusses how electronic signature and electronic contract execution can help you run your business more efficiently, saving you time. You can improve the [...]

Earlier this year, Ariba was selected as Best Supply Chain Management Company based on the ability to provide cost-effective solutions, help with solving common business problems, low time and cost of implementation, overall efficiency gains and facilitation of bank-to-bank and bank-to-customer communications.
DocuSign and Ariba have partnered to set a new standard for contract execution. Ariba [...]

Sam Diaz, one of the senior editors at ZDNet recently wrote a blog post about DocuSign
He’s been trying to sell his DC area home for the past five months. This process has him and his wife signing and initialing a million (number exaggerated for effect) documents, some as long as 65 pages, with a signature [...]

An important area where ESIGN and electronic contract execution (ECE) is expanding is with purchasing, procurement, and supply chain systems. A broad variety of businesses worldwide use these important systems. Companies rely on Purchasing Management Software (PMS) and Enterprise Contract Management (ECM) to help them manage and control the purchasing process, who can sign off [...]

The U.S. Postal Service is facing an enormous budget shortfall - and might run out of money without Congressional help. The U.S. Postal Service recently announced it was cutting 3,000 jobs and asked Congress for flexibility in reducing its costs associated with mandated retiree health benefit payments. Other possible cost cutting measures include reducing mail [...]

State of Green Business Report
In February, Joel Makower released the second annual State of Green Business report, State of Green Business 2009, which assesses how and how well companies are doing from an environmental perspective. From reporting on the 10 trends of the past year as well as providing insight via 20 indicators that, in [...]

What news do you want first? I’ll start with the other news, so we can end on a positive
note. 
Did you know…
DHL has discontinued U.S. domestic services. DHL, the overnight shipping service provider, no longer provides domestic-only air and ground services. Other overnight document shipping services have recently increased their rates, and there’s a [...]

I knew that we weren’t the first to try to accelerate the delivery of documents using ‘high tech’ means. As a matter of fact, a bunch of folks had the idea for REALLY fast mail delivery starting over 70 years ago…  
Using ROCKETS!

April 21, 1931: Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7 rocket) with [...]

I discovered an interesting blog post about enterprise contract management automation this morning, discussing how the contract execution process gets overlooked when organizations consider automating contracts.
According to Ken Miklos, some organizations that have implemented contract management solutions still print paper contracts and use wet signatures. I admit I agree with Miklos when he calls this [...]

FedEx and UPS have increased their rates for 2009
Effective January 5, 2009 FedEx Express rates increased an average of 6.9% for U.S. and U.S. export services, FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery rates increased an average of 5.9%.
FedEx re-indexed its fuel surcharge on January 1, 2009, which may provide temporary rate relief. However, as the [...]