Vendor Sprawl Is Draining Your IT Budget and Exposing You to Risk
Many enterprises still rely on separate tools for document generation, webforms, and agreements—creating integration, maintenance, and security challenges that inflate IT costs and risks. Consolidating these workflows onto a single platform like Docusign can reduce operational complexity, improve business agility, and strengthen security. IT leaders are seeing tangible benefits, including faster time-to-revenue, lower OPEX, and simplified compliance.
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Why It’s Time to Consolidate Document Generation and Webforms
As an IT leader, you’re tasked with enabling digital experiences, securing the enterprise, and reducing operational complexity—usually with flat or shrinking budgets. But there’s a silent cost center undermining these efforts: vendor sprawl.
For many large B2B enterprises, agreement workflows are still fragmented across separate tools for document generation, webforms, eSignature, and CLM. These disconnected systems might get the job done—but at what cost?
The reality is stark:
Every new tool adds integration, maintenance, and security overhead
Disconnected workflows slow down business velocity
Redundant platforms drive up IT OPEX and audit complexity
Consolidating document generation and webforms into a single, secure platform like Docusign offers a clear path forward—and IT leaders are taking notice.
The Real Cost of Vendor Sprawl
1. IT OPEX Bloat
Managing multiple tools means multiple contracts, support models, APIs, user access controls, and security reviews. Over time, these layers of complexity translate into higher TCO and slower IT response times.
Gartner: Enterprises that consolidated agreement tools saw a 30% reduction in run-rate costs and 25% faster time-to-revenue.
2. Integration and Maintenance Debt
Every additional system adds new points of failure, version conflicts, and patch cycles. Shadow IT workarounds and brittle scripts emerge to bridge the gaps—creating long-term maintenance risk.
Capgemini: 60% of enterprises reclaimed 20% of IT operations budget within a year of retiring redundant content and form tools.
3. Security and Compliance Risk
Each third-party tool expands your attack surface. With breaches increasingly originating from external vendors, every integration becomes a liability.
IBM: Enterprises that unified agreement workflows saw 33% fewer successful breach attempts.
Verizon: Third-party breaches rose 68% year-on-year—a direct result of complex, fragmented vendor ecosystems.
Consolidation Is the Cure
Bringing document generation, intelligent webforms, and agreement workflows together on one platform eliminates the friction and fragmentation that hold IT back.
What You Gain with Docusign
A Unified Platform Generate documents, build dynamic forms, collect signatures, and manage contracts—all within one enterprise-grade environment.
Built-In Security & Compliance Certified for ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate. Unified encryption, retention, and audit policies mapped to GDPR, HIPAA, and more.
Seamless Integrations Native connectors for Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft, Workday, Oracle and 400+ other systems—no custom code required.
How IT Wins
Simplified architecture: Fewer systems, fewer points of failure.
Stronger security posture: Less risk from third-party sprawl.
Improved business agility: Sales, legal, and finance move faster with unified tools.
Better governance: Single source of truth for data, access, and compliance.
Ready to Reduce Risk and Reclaim IT Resources?
If your agreement workflows are still split across multiple systems, now is the time to rethink your architecture. Docusign helps IT teams eliminate vendor sprawl, harden security, and lower operational costs—with measurable outcomes.
👉 Connect with a Docusign consolidation expert to see what your organisation could save.
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