To recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Seattle, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its “Hottest Seattle Companies” awards. DocuSign is honored to be included in Lead411’s “Hottest Seattle Companies” for our award-winning electronic signature services.

The Lead411 research team scours through 600+ press releases and business articles daily, including venture capital fundings, company launches, new office openings, customer press releases, and more. This information has given insight to which are the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

Lead411 created their “Hottest Companies” awards to recognize these fast growing companies in different geographic regions. This particular list originally started with over 700 companies and has been narrowed down to the top 55. Tom Blue, CEO of Lead411, shares his thoughts on the “Hottest Companies” awards:

We have been tracking fast companies for our customers for the past 10 years and we felt it was important to recognize these growing brands publicly.

How the Winners were Chosen
First, all companies must by in either the Software, Wireless, Internet, or Media industry, be a privately held organization, and be within the Seattle area. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements:

• 100% increase in revenues over the past 3 years; OR
• Over $4M in funding in the past 2 years; OR
• 2X traffic gains to their website in the past 12 months AND over 1M unique visitors a month.

It’s an honor to be selected as one of the “Hottest Seattle Companies” – thank you to our customers, for using our service, sharing electronic signature with their colleagues, and providing us with feedback to help us provide the most trusted, industry leading electronic signature services.

Momentous Electronic Signature Achievements of 2010, to Date

After posting significant achievements in 2009 including 300 percent growth in paid transactions, DocuSign continues to experience accelerated adoption rates of its trusted eSignature platform. To date, DocuSign:

• Surpassed 4 million electronic signature users and exceeded 78 million eSignature events to date.
• Supports more than 30,000 customers from large enterprise organizations to individual professionals by consistently delivering 99.993% uptime.
• DocuSign customers include American Airlines, Banner Life, BECU, Dave & Busters, Dow AgroSciences, EDGAR® Online, e-Rewards, Equity Residential, iPipeline, LinkedIn, F5 and Yamaha.
• Spearheaded an industry-wide effort to move the FHA to formally recognize electronically signed third-party documents.
• Continues to expand business partnerships with PropertyInfo, zipLogix and other leading businesses, and was selected as a national sponsor for salesforce.com Cloudforce 2.
• Leads in innovation with industry nominations and awards including 2010 Hot New Company, Best New Product and Salesforce Best Partner App.
• Recognizes and serves specialized customer needs with exclusive tailored editions—DocuSign REALTOR® Edition and DocuSign for Salesforce, DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and DocuSign for Salesforce Chatter Enabled.
• Dominates the SaaS-based eSignature market with an estimated 70 percent market share.

After posting significant achievements in 2009 including 300 percent growth in paid transactions, DocuSign continues to experience accelerated adoption rates of its trusted eSignature platform. To date, DocuSign:

• Surpassed 4 million electronic signature users and exceeded 78 million eSignature events to date.
• Supports more than 30,000 customers from large enterprise organizations to individual professionals by consistently delivering 99.993% uptime.
• DocuSign customers include American Airlines, Banner Life, BECU, Dave & Busters, Dow AgroSciences, EDGAR® Online, e-Rewards, Equity Residential, iPipeline, LinkedIn, F5 and Yamaha.
• Spearheaded an industry-wide effort to move the FHA to formally recognize electronically signed third-party documents.
• Continues to expand business partnerships with PropertyInfo, zipLogix and other leading businesses, and was selected as a national sponsor for salesforce.com Cloudforce 2.
• Leads in innovation with industry nominations and awards including 2010 Hot New Company, Best New Product and Salesforce Best Partner App.
• Recognizes and serves specialized customer needs with exclusive tailored editions—DocuSign REALTOR® Edition and DocuSign for Salesforce, DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and DocuSign for Salesforce Chatter Enabled.
• Dominates the SaaS-based eSignature market with an estimated 70 percent market share.

We’re excited to announce the availability of DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and version 2.5 of DocuSign for Salesforce for salesforce.com’s Force.com AppExchange. DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes is seamlessly integrated into the Salesforce CRM dashboard, and uniquely arms Salesforce users with the power of DocuSign’s e-signature service to close the sales loop by signing quotes online in minutes. Built using the Force.com platform, DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and version 2.5 of DocuSign for Salesforce are immediately available on the Force.com AppExchange.

DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes provides real-time visibility into quote status and automatically populates customer data into the Salesforce database to streamline operations.  We anticipate the adoption rate of this new offering to mirror that of DocuSign’s flagship offering, DocuSign for Salesforce, which was recently recognized by salesforce.com as the AppExchange App of the Week.

Version 2.5 of DocuSign for Salesforce provides a rich feature set and extends the power of Salesforce by enabling sales teams, real estate professionals, mortgage brokers, and business development and operational professionals to quickly close deals in the cloud. Version 2.5 enhancements include new management tools to increase control and user convenience.

DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes

This latest offering is a fully integrated, fully functional eSignature solution specifically designed for users of Salesforce Real-Time Quotes. Salesforce Real-Time Quotes users that generate and manage quotes can now complete the sales loop in the Cloud by sending quotes for signature approval with DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes. DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes provides real-time visibility into quote status. Recipient data is automatically updated within Salesforce, eliminating data entry errors. DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes complements Salesforce CRM by providing users with a fast, efficient, electronic method to get quotes approved and signed, thereby accelerating the sales process. DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes is available at no charge to all Salesforce users through the salesforce.com AppExchange.

Access DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes seamlessly within Salesforce CRM to quickly close the sales loop by signing quotes online in minutes.

DocuSign for Salesforce

Version 2.5 allows Salesforce users to easily and seamlessly access DocuSign from anywhere inside their Salesforce account and quickly send documents for signature. Using DocuSign for Salesforce is as easy as sending email from Salesforce.

Unique to the DocuSign solution is the ability to drag and drop Salesforce–linked data fields directly into documents or have all the fields automatically inserted into documents using DocuSign’s Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) technology. DocuSign’s data fields collect data during the signing process and automatically update Salesforce in real-time.  Data entry errors are eliminated as sales teams no longer have to rekey data.  In addition, setting up DocuSign for Salesforce accounts and managing users can be completed within the new DocuSign Admin Tab inside Salesforce. Users can be up and running in a matter of minutes with no new user interface to learn. DocuSign for Salesforce customers include Acteva, Community Energy, Drawloop, e-Rewards, EDGAR®Online, LinkedIn, Yamaha and others.

Salesforce users quickly drag and drop DocuSign for Salesforce Sign Here tabs directly into documents.

The response to DocuSign for Salesforce has been tremendous, leading salesforce.com to announce DocuSign for Salesforce as the AppExchange App of the Week. This recent Salesforce accolade follows on the heels of Marc Benioff, salesforce.com chairman and CEO, presenting DocuSign’s Matthew J. Schiltz with the “Best Partner Application” Appy Award at Dreamforce ’09 in a ceremony at salesforce.com’s user and developer conference. Dreamforce ’09 attendees overwhelmingly  voted for DocuSign as the Best Partner Application in recognition of DocuSign’s innovative use of Salesforce CRM and transforming its business with the power of cloud computing.

salesforce.com’s chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff presenting DocuSign’s Matthew J. Schiltz with the “Best Partner Application” Appy Award at Dreamforce ’09 in San Francisco

DocuSign for Real-Time Quotes offers sophisticated capabilities that makes it faster and easier than ever for Salesforce users to close the sales loop by signing to approve quotes online. By deeply integrating DocuSign’s e-sign and data collection capabilities into the core of Salesforce, we are making it possible for organizations across all industries to use Salesforce to manage  the whole business transaction in the cloud, eliminating the need to manage paper or re-key data in business transactions.  We call this process ‘Closing it in the Cloud’ and it is the new gold standard for how sales transactions should happen. – Tom Gonser, founder and vice president of product strategy at DocuSign.

Pricing and Availability

Pricing and additional product information can be found on the DocuSign Web site, including more on DocuSign for Salesforce. DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes is available for download on the Salesforce AppExchange.

Salesforce users can learn more about the DocuSign for Salesforce AppExchange App of the Week blog post or download DocuSign for Salesforce  at no charge.

We’re demonstrating the depth and breadth of our eSignature Solutions: DocuSign for Salesforce, DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and DocuSign for Salesforce enabled for Salesforce Chatter

Choose Onsite or Online: Attend. April 12 Cloudforce 2 Seattle, Noon to 5pm

Online: Exhibition with Live Demonstrations at the Grand Hyatt, 721 Pine Street, Seattle

Register online by clicking here.

Participate. Register for our April 22 Webinar, 10am to 11am: “Salesforce.com: Add eSign to Salesforce CRM and Sell More, Faster”

Watch. Video demonstrating DocuSign for Salesforce enabled for Salesforce Chatter online.

Close it in the Cloud! Leverage the Power of DocuSign eSignature Technology with Salesforce

Exhibition: Learn more about DocuSign’s eSignature solutions for Salesforce CRM at Cloudforce 2 in Seattle on April 12. We’ll demonstrate the new DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes, the latest eSignature solution exclusively for Salesforce users. This new award-winning eSignature offering enables users to complete the sales loop by sending quotes for signature approval through Salesforce. Learn more about DocuSign for Salesforce, a fully integrated eSignature solution to quickly and easily close deals in the cloud. See how DocuSign for Salesforce enabled for Chatter provides users the ability to track the entire sales cycle in real-time in the cloud. Register to attend here.

Webinar: Voted as Salesforce’s Best Partner Application in 2009, DocuSign empowers sales professionals to become more efficient, close more deals and shorten sales cycles. This April 22 webinar will demonstrate how adding DocuSign for Salesforce to Salesforce CRM will help close up to 30% more deals and take weeks off of the sales cycle. With real-time agreement tracking from within Salesforce, sales teams can finally manage deals from Lead to Opportunity through the contract signing. Register to participate in the webinar and learn more!

Video: This video demonstrates the ease and use of DocuSign for Salesforce enabled for Chatter. This new DocuSign feature offers salesforce.com users the ability to track the entire sales cycle in real-time, all in the cloud—from Lead to Opportunity through the sales process and closing the deal. Whether it’s a quote sent electronically through DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes or a contract through DocuSign for Salesforce, users receive status updates in real-time. Through Chatter’s real-time feed, users can now track and monitor any field within a DocuSign envelope – know in real-time any status change of an envelope from the moment it is sent through the electronic signing and final contract execution process. Users can also easily customize real-time Chatter feeds to complement unique workflows, get status updates on reorders, upgrades or any other information. View the video anytime on YouTube.

Additional Information: Learn more about DocuSign eSignature solutions for Salesforce CRM users on the DocuSign Website!

See how Acteva, Community Energy, Drawloop, e-Rewards, EDGAR®Online, LinkedIn and Yamaha streamlined business processes and accelerated the sales cycle with DocuSign.

Salesforce users can download DocuSign for Salesforce application at the AppExchange.

Salesforce Real-Time Quotes users can download DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes, available on the AppExchange.

DocuSign for Salesforce enabled for Chatter is available for download on the ChatterExchange.

Spend more time selling by becoming more efficient, no longer wasting time managing paper contracts.

Never hassle with fax or scanning – even better, your customers will appreciate not having to deal with fax machines or scanners either.

Shorten sales cycles by using DocuSign’s electronic signature process; contracts are delivered immediately – they don’t sit on customers’ desks, they don’t get lost and are returned immediately after being signed.

Close more deals – sales organizations are seeing close rates increase by 30% or more with DocuSign electronic signature.

Sales reps now have real time visibility into the contract signing process – they can see who has viewed the contract, who has signed, and who has yet to sign.

Aside from making the signing process easy for sales, easy for customers and improving sales results, DocuSign allows companies to save up to 90% of costs associated with paper processes by eliminating paper, the need to use a fax, and the need to use costly courier services.

Sending Your Document

Sending a contract for signature is as simple as uploading your sales contract.

Add your signer or signers, if multiple people need to sign your contract.

You can also carbon copy additional people who need to receive the completed document but are not signers.

Next, add a subject and message to the email notification that will be sent to your signers.

Drag DocuSign tabs from the right side of your screen to assign signature, initial and data entry tasks for each of your recipients.

Then click “Send”

Here’s what your signers will see… Signing your Document

First they will agree to adopt an electronic signature

Then they will click on the signing tabs you have added on the contract and click “Complete Signing”.

The signing process is fast, convenient and easy.

By using DocuSign’s tab signing contracts, this will ensure they come back error free.

API Integration

With our out-of-the-box integration with partners like Salesforce.com, Ariba, and many others, DocuSign fits seamlessly into your existing sales process. You can also choose to create a custom API integration to integrate with just about any other application.

We offer regular DocuSign API webinars (developer workshops) and have a robust eSign Dev Center to provide support for your integration efforts.

With millions of signature events complete and thousands of companies like Ariba, Comcast, Expedia, LinkedIn, Yamaha, EFA Processing, Great Lakes, Prudential, and Monsanto relying on DocuSign daily, DocuSign is a proven leader in electronic signature and eSign services. DocuSign provides the most secure, reliable and robust eSignature services available.

Please click the link and contact DocuSign today to find out how electronic signature can accelerate your sales process!

Today, we announced our latest innovations in on-demand electronic signature solutions, with the release of the DocuSign version 10.1. This version of our award-winning e-signature service offers unique features and functionality designed to support workflow and productivity including automation of form fields and other workflow enhancements to simplify the user experience.

ESIGNControl, a custom DocuSign application specifically designed for Apple® iPhone users by Smart Mobile Solutions, further extends this rich feature set. DocuSign, combined with ESIGNControl, supercharges sales teams, real estate professionals, mortgage brokers, and business development and operational professionals who rely on the DocuSign e-signature service to close deals online in minutes.

Gartner predicts that worldwide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revenue will exceed $14 billion for the enterprise application markets by 2013, up from $7.5 billion in 2009.* Organizations of all sizes are deploying affordable, on-demand solutions like DocuSign to automate core business functions, reduce costs and increase employee productivity. Whether it’s a simple NDA or a complex global sales agreement requiring multi-party signatures, DocuSign helps companies operate greener, faster and more profitably by removing the hurdles associated with the signing process and by offering more ways for users to access and complete their transactions online.

This release of DocuSign version 10.1 adds more sophisticated capabilities that make it faster and easier than ever to get documents signed online, and to share data with other core business applications. DocuSign is creating an e-signature ecosystem that makes it possible for organizations across all industries to close deals in the cloud and operate more efficiently. – Tom Gonser, founder and vice president of product strategy at DocuSign

DocuSign Version 10.1 At-a-Glance

Automatic Conversion of Adobe® PDF Form Fields. Now, when uploading Adobe PDF forms into the DocuSign system, the service automatically recognizes and converts all PDF form fields—including text boxes, radio button groups, drop downs and check boxes—along with their attributes, directly into secure DocuSign fields that can be assigned to specific recipients. These fields can be manipulated without any additional software, and the forms can be saved as templates in the DocuSign online forms library and shared with all account users.

DocuSign for Salesforce New Enhancements. Salesforce users now have access to all functionality DocuSign offers from inside Salesforce. Salesforce users can use DocuSign to send any document for signature as easily as sending email from Salesforce. Unique to DocuSign is the ability to drag and drop form fields associated with Salesforce data directly into documents, enabling these documents to collect data during the signing process and automatically update Salesforce in real time. This new capability eliminates rekeying of information and dramatically streamlines the sales process.

In addition, users can set up DocuSign for Salesforce accounts and manage users within the Salesforce application through the new DocuSign Admin Tab. Users can be up and running in a matter of minutes with no new user interface to learn. These new capabilities are expected to be released through the Salesforce Spring Update on March 6, 2010. DocuSign for Salesforce customers include Acteva, Community Energy, Drawloop, EDGAR® Online, LinkedIn, Yamaha and others.

Expanded Capabilities with ESIGNControl for the Apple iPhone. ESIGNControl enables DocuSign clients to use their Apple iPhone to access, send, sign and manage electronic documents. It is a powerful tool for managers to track their sales through robust reporting functionality. ESIGNControl is available today for download from iTunes® and a variety of other Web sites.

The iPhone is quickly becoming a must-have business productivity tool and ESIGNControl makes it easy for DocuSign clients to maximize efficiencies when away from the office. ESIGNControl was developed for the iPhone and thoroughly tested for performance. This new application offers a fast, convenient and mobile method to use DocuSign from any iPhone. -Tony Tonchev, founder of Smart Mobile Solutions and creator of the ESIGNControl application

ESIGNControl is a DocuSign transaction remote control that lets users manage documents sent for e-signature from any iPhone. ESIGNControl offers a rich feature set that makes it fast and easy for DocuSign users to:

• Send a document for signature straight from your iPhone
• Conveniently view, track and access sent documents
• Easily send, revise and resend documents for eSignature
• Quickly access document signing status, envelope details, archived documents and history
• Share easy-to-read graphical reports that even shows transaction times
• Electronically sign a document from anywhere, anytime
• Remotely log in to the DocuSign Console

These powerful new features within the DocuSign eSignature Service, further demonstrate DocuSign’s leadership in the ESIGN market. DocuSign currently commands more than 70 percent of the SaaS-based electronic signature services market and recently surpassed 58 million signature events. The company has experienced accelerated growth of more than 300 percent over the previous year and serves more than 20,000 customers ranging across all markets. In 2009, DocuSign delivered more than 480 customer-driven features while maintaining 99.993 percent system availability over the past 28 months.**

Pricing and Availability of DocuSign Electronic Signature Solutions

DocuSign for Salesforce is scheduled to be available March 6 with additional product information available online. Salesforce users will be able to download the DocuSign for Salesforce application at no charge at the Appexchange.

ESIGNControl is available now from iTunes for $2.99.

* Gartner report “Market Trends: Software as a Service, Worldwide, 2008-2013, Update,” November 4, 2009. http://www.gartner.com/resId=1221513 .
** DocuSign, http://www.docusign.com/news_and_events/press_releases/2010-01-27.php.

As the industry leading provider of on-demand electronic signature solutions, DocuSign appointed Keith Krach, founder and former CEO of Ariba, as chairman of its board of directors. In addition, Steven R. King, former E*TRADE executive and SaaS industry veteran, was named president and CEO.  The move was initiated as the company scales to meet broad market adoption of its e-signature services. Krach and King join DocuSign during a period of explosive growth, with paid transactions increasing more than 300 percent in 2009 over the prior year.

About Keith Krach

Krach, a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur, joins DocuSign with an impressive success record, including building and steering three companies to global leadership. In 1996, Krach co-founded Ariba, served as CEO and chairman for six years while taking the company public and building it into one of the fastest growing software companies in history. In 2000, he was honored by Ernst & Young as National Entrepreneur of the Year, and received the Technology Pioneer Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Today, Krach serves as the CEO of the investment holding company 3Points, Inc.

I am very impressed with the immediate financial and business process impact DocuSign has on its customers, the fantastic growth it is experiencing, and its tremendous customer base. The business results in 2009 were incredible. I am excited to be part of DocuSign and looking forward to working with Steve King and the DocuSign management team. – Keith Krach, DocuSign Chairman

About Steve King

As president and CEO, King brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in information technology. Most recently, King led venture-backed Virtela and ZANTAZ as president and CEO. Under his seven-year leadership, ZANTAZ grew to become the recognized market leader in SaaS email archiving, and was acquired in 2007 by The Autonomy Group. Prior to these positions, King held a number of executive positions at E*TRADE Group Inc., where he played a key role in growing the company from under $100 million to more than $1.5 billion in revenues. He ultimately became CEO of E*OFFERING, the pioneering online investment bank of E*TRADE, acquired by Wit SoundView Group. Previously, King held senior management positions at the Thomson Reuters Corporation and Ziff-Davis. In 2006, he received the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

DocuSign is clearly leading the e-signature revolution with its vast service offerings, number of users and market share. Matt Schiltz and Tom Gonser have done an exceptional job growing the company to this pivotal stage, and I’m excited to work with this dynamic team. – Steve King, DocuSign President and CEO

Matthew J. Schiltz will assume executive responsibilities for strategic business development. This is a role Schiltz held in conjunction with his responsibilities as CEO and president of DocuSign for the past three years. DocuSign experienced phenomenal growth under Schiltz’s leadership and is well-positioned to maintain dominance in the market.

Key Electronic Signature Milestones

In 2009, DocuSign:

• Received a strategic investment from Second Century Ventures to extend DocuSign’s leadership position in the residential and commercial real estate sector.
• Accepted the honor of being named the official and exclusive provider of ESIGN services for the National Association of REALTORS^® 1.2 million members, under the REALTOR Benefits^® Program.
• Surpassed 2.5 million users and exceeded 53 million signature events.
• Supported more than 20,000 customers ranging across all markets including leaders such as American Airlines, BECU, Comcast, EDGAR^® Online, LinkedIn, Yamaha and many others.
• Delivered more than 480 customer-driven features while concurrently deploying the eSign industry’s only fully redundant data centers supporting high availability and immediate disaster recovery.
• Deployed a 10X upgrade in processing power and storage while consistently maintaining 99.993 percent system availability over the past 24 months.
• Achieved a dominant 73 percent ownership in the SaaS-based electronic signature services market for 2009.

**DocuSign’s estimate based on market share data collected using compete.com and comparing the usage at the leading SaaS vendors’ applications in 2009 calendar year. For more information on ESIGN market leader methodology, click here.

DocuSign services also received numerous accolades and awards including the 2009 Best Partner App of the Year Appy Award from salesforce.com, the 2009 Red Herring 100 Award and the 2009 Product Innovation Award from the Networks Product Guide.

DocuSign Electronic Signature and The National Association of REALTORS®

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), America’s largest trade association, represents 1.2 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. Last week, NAR selected DocuSign as the official and exclusive provider of electronic signature services under NAR’s REALTOR Benefits® program.

Second Century Ventures (SCV), is the strategic investment arm of NAR, made a strategic investment in DocuSign. As part of the investment, the president of Second Century Ventures and chief executive officer of NAR, Dale A. Stinton, will join the DocuSign Board of Directors.

DocuSign Electronic Signature and Real Estate

During last week’s REALTORS® (NAR) Annual Conference and Expo 2009, Shannon Williams King named DocuSign one of the must-have technologies and applications necessary for a real estate road warrior. Ms. King served on NAR’s Strategic Planning Committee for 2007 and 2008 and starting in 2008, is serving on the Young Professional’s Network – NAR Advisory Board. She was also named one of 30 Under 30 in REALTOR® Magazine in 2005.

Aaron Wheeler also named DocuSign as one of the technologies and applications necessary to take your real estate business to the next level in “Leveraging Technology for Luxury Home Marketing.” He also named Salesforce as a must-have CRM. Mr. Wheeler is the President and Managing Broker of Oakville Properties as well as the publisher of LUXRETECH, the blog about leveraging technology for luxury real estate marketing.

Of course, pairing DocuSign electronic signature and Salesforce CRM helps extend your business processes. We had some exciting announcements at Salesforce Dreamforce Global Gathering:

DocuSign Launches Two New Electronic Signature Products at Salesforce Dreamforce Global Gathering and Cloud Expo 2009

DocuSign for Salesforce 2.0 was showcased in a break-out session at Dreamforce, in which Mike Machado of Yamaha and Brian Frank of LinkedIn shared their successes with DocuSign for Salesforce with DocuSign founder and VP of Product Strategy, Tom Gonser. For more information, take a look at the case studies about Yamaha and LinkedIn.

DocuSign for Salesforce CRM Real-Time Quotes Salesforce.com chose DocuSign as the electronic signature solution partner to launch Real-Time Quotes to Salesforce.com customers. Ken Cavallon, DocuSign Business Development Manager, and Tyler Ziemann, Salesforce.com Senior Product Manager, presented a session about DocuSign for Salesforce CRM Real-Time Quotes.

DocuSign’s Electronic Signature Solution Named Best App for Salesforce at Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009

In addition to the launch of our two electronic signature products, DocuSign won the Best App for Salesforce Appy Award in a voting competition from among more than 3,000 companies who partner with Salesforce.com on the AppExchange. DocuSign CEO Matthew J. Schiltz accepted the award from Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Mark Benioff and Salesforce.com President Jim Steel.

Thank you to all of our customers who share your customer stories, provide us with valuable feedback that enables us to continually improve our electronic signature services.

From strategic investments and partnerships to new products and awards, excitement around electronic signature continues to build – we look forward to building electronic signature solutions to enable you to electronically send, sign and manage documents securely and with confidence.

The other day, someone asked me “How do you know you are the Market Leader in the SaaS ESIGN Market?” Good question because in a new market nearly everyone claims they are the market leader.

What’s interesting is that with SaaS offers, it is actually fairly easy to come up with a proxy for market share by using the same tools that Web sites use. It’s a little more involved because we are not measuring your “.com” site. For example, DocuSign’s service is actually on a different server farm and is at DocuSign.net so it’s a bit more complicated, but attainable.

A Proxy for Market Share – Visits to a SaaS Application

At least in terms of overall activity, ‘visits’ to a SaaS Application online is a good proxy for market share. People do not visit a login page for an online ESIGN tool for fun. They go to log in and sign or send.

Companies like Quantcast, Alexa and Compete.com provide measurement estimates of traffic to sites. Most dismiss Alexa because they use a Web browser toolbar to count visits and this only works with certain browsers, only for users using the toolbar, only focuses on rankings of 100,000 and above (our competition doesn’t show up), and can be easily gamed. Quantcast does not have sufficient data yet. So, for today, Compete.com is the best source having the best data.

Using Compete.com to compare the total visits to the top 9 SaaS ESIGN applications is a fair proxy for measuring market share of these ESIGN vendors. The data is pretty amazing, and shows what we in the industry suspect. The overall market is growing and not surprisingly, more offerings are coming into the market.

The graph below shows the relative size of the top 9 SaaS ESIGN vendors for October 2009:

Here are the same 9 SaaS ESIGN vendors from September 2008:

First, my disclaimer! This is only a PROXY for market share information. There are variables that are likely not taken into account such as API calls, etc. But as a group, the data applies the same to all of these companies.

So what does this data say? Actually, it tells us some very interesting things:

From 9/08 through 9/09, the market has expanded.

• Overall application visits have increased 286%.
• More companies have entered the market.

This data is consistent with what we’re seeing at DocuSign. Our business is up over 350% over this same period.

DocuSign’s market share grew over the past 12 months from 57% to 70% —yes, we’ve had a great year!

This data shows that 2009 has been a big year in ESIGN, and we believe 2010 is gearing up to be even bigger. Want to check out the ESIGN market yourself? Visit www.compete.com and compare different company’s SaaS application sites total visits. This will show you the ‘activity’ level on a comparable basis.

It’s clear e-signing is quickly becoming the preferred method of conducting business. At DocuSign, we strive to give you the best electronic signature services possible with the most rich array of functionality so you can quickly get the signatures you need to close the deal. We make it fast and easy to DocuSign from anywhere, anytime.

Whether it’s sending a simple Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or a complex multi-page, multi-signer sales contract, we work very hard to give you the best e-sign services available. We’re listening. And here’s what we’ve heard so far:

The introduction of DocuSign into our collections process significantly improved DSO contributing to access to over $1M in additional working capital on an annualized basis. – Brian Frank, Director of Global Enterprise Operations, LinkedIn

DocuSign allows us to quickly generate documents and distribute them to the customer for execution and then get them moved on to the supplier to book the energy. It immediately goes from the customer’s office to the supplier so there is a very little gap in time for the market to move. DocuSign helps the customer lock in a rate at a low price and ensures that it gets preserved even if the market is moving quickly. – Scott Chilton, President & Managing Partner, Community Energy, LP

Just by the very nature of how much easier DocuSign is to get a document signed, get it completed and get it archived, DocuSign allows us to go from a couple of days or even a week, down to literally hours to get a contract executed. – Jim Roberson, President & Co-Founder, Drawloop Technologies

DocuSign significantly improved the company’s workflow cycle. With DocuSign, you can always look at the status in real-time and know if the contract is still out there. It makes your job a lot easier, keeping track of what contracts you sent out and what hasn’t come back yet. – Tressa Morgan, Sales Operations Database and Client Support Manager, EDGAR Online

The best part is documents could be signed in literally minutes versus months. I now have complete visibility. With a few clicks, I know who hasn’t signed. – Mike Machado, CRM Manager, Yamaha Commercial Audio

It seems the word is out! Using the Internet, not the Interstate, to get your documents signed is faster, less expensive and becoming the norm in many business segments. It really is inevitable! It will be interesting to see what the data is at this time NEXT YEAR. Stay tuned!

TG

Our time in San Diego for REALTORS® (NAR) Annual Conference and Expo 2009 has come to a close, but we aren’t missing a beat – we’ve headed north to be EVERYWHERE at the Cloud Computing Event of the year – salesforce.com Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco November 17-20, 2009.

Before we left NAR, we were pleased to be named as one of the technologies and applications necessary to take your business to the next level in the “Leveraging Technology for Luxury Home Marketing” session. Aaron Wheeler, the speaker, also named Salesforce as a must-have CRM. – Thank you Aaron!

Leveraging Technology for Luxury Home Marketing: Grow your luxury real estate practice by implementing an internet and technology strategy and using cost-effective solutions. Increase your service level and client loyalty using customer relationship management technologies. Determine how to track advertising campaign effectiveness and provide the results to your client. A real estate professional shares tips on what does and does not work when you leverage syndication technologies, email marketing, social media, and other technologies to increase exposure for your luxury listings.

From Southern California to Northern California… we’re so hot, we can’t stop!

Today marks the opening day at Dreamforce and the first day of Cloud Expo!

During the Cloud Expo in booth #1118, we will have experts available to demonstrate the new solution suite, analyze customer business workflows, recommend best practices and help attendees get started with a 30-day free trial. Attendees participating in a brief demonstration are entered in a drawing to win a Dell Netbook at the close of the show.

Stop by our booth to say hi to Tom Barnes, Robert Sanchez, Adam Hernandez, Brad Epker and Mike Tasca. You can also catch Tom Gonser, Bob DeSantis, Loren Alhadeff, Ken Cavallon, Eric Wong, Tanya Frerichs, Doug Rybacki, Mike Borozdin, and Steve Woodworth at various sessions. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone!

Don’t forget to mark your schedules for three don’t-miss sessions: Close it in the Cloud!™ with DocuSign Smart Electronic Signatures, Electronic Contract Execution with Apttus, and DocuSign for Salesforce and in collaboration with Salesforce CRM product group in their session Introducing Real-Time Quotes to Salesforce CRM.

Introducing Real-Time Quotes to Salesforce CRM

Thursday, November 19th, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., PT. Room North 133.

In this Salesforce CRM product group session, DocuSign will demonstrate for the first time its rich integration with this new capability. In collaboration with the Salesforce CRM Real-Time Quotes product group, DocuSign will show attendees how to close it in the cloud in real-time. Attendees will see the future of Real-Time Quotes in the Spring 10 release, learn how to manage quotes with workflow, quote with product bundles using BigMachines and leverage integrated electronic signature technology with Smart eSignatures from DocuSign. We’re excited to be an integrated part of the solution and the only ESIGN provider in the session.

Speakers: Tyler Ziemann, Salesforce.com; Tim Handorf, BigMachines; Ken Cavallon, DocuSign.

Sales Track: Close It In The Cloud! with DocuSign Electronic Signatures

Thursday, November 19th, 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m., PT. Room North 130.

Learn how Yahama, Expedia, and LinkedIn have transformed their business by using DocuSign for Salesforce CRM. Companies have eliminated paper and are sending contracts for electronic signatures, transforming slow, manual, expensive, paper-based contract processes into efficient 100% cloud-based processes. With integrated data management, your people will never need to rekey data again! Close more deals faster, eliminate errors, and increase efficiency by closing it in the cloud with DocuSign for Salesforce CRM.

Speakers: Gene Harden, Expedia, Inc.; Tom Gonser, DocuSign; Mike Machado, Yamaha Corporation of America; Brian Frank, LinkedIn.

Large Enterprises Track: Electronic Contract Execution with Apttus and DocuSign for Salesforce

Friday, November 20th, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., PT Room North 120.

Using the power of end-to-end electronic contract management from Apttus and electronic signatures from DocuSign, successful companies can now speed up time to revenue, automate business process, eliminate paper, and ensure compliance with this amazing cloud computing solution that delivers on the promise of the paperless enterprise! Join us to find out how your enterprise can Close it in the Cloud! with electronic contract execution from these two top AppExchange partners.

Speakers: Kirk Krappe, Apttus Inc.; Tom Gonser, DocuSign