Signature Etymology:
Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French, from Medieval Latin signatura, from Latin signatus, past participle of signare to sign, seal – from Merriam Webster Online Dictionary
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary defines signature as: (1) a: the act of signing one’s name to something b: the name of a person written with his [...]

I spend a great deal of time thinking about electronic signature and online contract execution. The DocuSign process is a green process for contract execution, when compared to a purple (fax) process. How do the two compare regarding security?
I was just reading Schneier on Security, a blog on security and security technology. According to Schneier, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 Author and IT industry analyst Michael Sampson writes on his “Being Effective with Collaboration” blog that the “days of retaining a fax machine just for signing contracts are over.”
The reason is that his publisher is using DocuSign to obtain signatures on contracts – rather than antiquated, outmoded technologies like faxes. It’s worth noting that Michael [...]

eWeek, the leading IT journal, recently posted an item detailing 20 steps for improving printer security. As the author M. David Stone notes:
Printers can compromise your information with hard disks that hold on to data after printing or scanning, fax features that can send to anyone and documents left sitting in output bins for [...]

 “Once in a while you can get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.”
– The Grateful Dead
OK, so maybe I’m harkening back to my college days, but this quote does ring home for me. As we all know, it’s quite common for engineers or programmers to develop [...]

 In a recent post I talked about our Executive Customer Council (ECC) meetings in Seattle that occurred in early October. During those meetings customers presented electronic signature best practices — the most effective ways to implement and benefit from electronic signatures — to the entire audience. The audience was comprised of the ECC as well [...]

Channel and dealer agreements and paperwork are iterative, lengthy, and arduous. And that’s on a good day. It gets even more interesting when multiple parties are involved.  Yet for companies whose businesses are dependent on channels, dealers and retailers, these agreements are absolutely critical to doing business.
A manufacturer has hundreds or thousands of dealers across [...]