SAN FRANCISCO, June 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Following its
successful initial public offering in April of this year, DocuSign
(NASDAQ:DOCU) today kicked off its annual customer, partner and
developer conference—Momentum 2018—by unveiling its expanded
vision, along with new product innovations designed to deliver on
it.
The company's vision is centered around modernizing the world's
Systems of Agreement: the technologies and processes that companies
use to prepare, sign, enact and manage agreements. This builds on
DocuSign's existing standing as the world's #1 e-signature solution
provider. And it broadens the company's platform to automate and
connect what happens before, during and after an e-signature is
executed.
"We're on a mission to make the world more agree-able by
transforming the foundational element of business: the agreement
process," said Dan Springer, CEO
of DocuSign. "With e-signature, we took the paper out of
paperwork—something that has garnered us more than 400,000 paying
customers and hundreds of millions of users worldwide today. We now
see an expanded opportunity to do the same for the entire agreement
process."
Geoffrey Moore, author of
Crossing the Chasm and co-author of the white paper, The
Rise of Modern Systems of Agreement, agrees—adding: "Over the
years, companies have invested billions of dollars to digitally
transform their Systems of Record and to create automated Systems
of Engagement. But neither of those established platforms handles
the complexities and legalities of agreement processes natively or
easily. I believe that System of Agreement platforms will fill this
gap. It's a new and long-overdue category."
To bring this vision to life, DocuSign showcased more than a
dozen product innovations at Momentum 2018—many of which are slated
to ship with the DocuSign Summer '18 Release or at other milestone
times later this year. Some highlights of that innovation
include:
- Blockchain: DocuSign demonstrated a live integration
with the Ethereum blockchain, allowing evidence of a DocuSigned
agreement to be automatically written to Ethereum. DocuSign also
announced two policy and standards-based activities: membership in
the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, where DocuSign is collaborating
with industry leaders to define blockchain best practices and open
standards; and membership in the Chamber of Digital Commerce, where
DocuSign will work with policy makers and regulatory agencies on
blockchain initiatives.
- DocuSign for Salesforce CPQ: Agreement processes such as
pricing quotes and proposals often involve multiple paper
documents, multiple parties, and the time-consuming issues of
signing, scanning, and emailing. DocuSign for Salesforce CPQ
(Configure, Price, Quote) connects CPQ data into DocuSign
agreements, which can be sent directly from Salesforce. The result
is a faster and easier experience at every stage of the
quote-to-cash process.
- Responsive Signing: Using a customer example that is
already live in hundreds of retail stores across the United States, DocuSign demonstrated a new
technology that renders an agreement 'responsively'—meaning it is
easily readable whether the user is on a desktop, tablet or phone.
The technology automatically converts a PDF agreement into
responsive HTML on the fly, which means no more squinting at
shrunken PDFs on small screens.
- Smart Sections: DocuSign also showcased how customers
can take Responsive Signing to the next level by defining
collapsible sections, page breaks, custom formatting options, and
more. Especially important for longer or more complex agreements,
this additional structure and interactivity delivers a
further-enhanced experience over static PDFs.
- Artificial Intelligence for Search and Insights:
DocuSign also demonstrated AI-based search and agreement analytics.
Available as part of the Intelligent Insights platform extension by
Seal Software, this technology uses machine learning and natural
language processing to go beyond keywords and seek to understand
agreement clauses in the way a human being would—for example,
knowing that a clause about Internet cookies is about privacy, even
when the word privacy is absent.
DocuSign is also continuing to invest in one of its most
important audiences: developers. The company recently relaunched an
entirely new developer center, designed to provide a best-in-class
experience with code examples, SDKs and toolkits. According to
Marie Huwe, VP developer programs
and evangelism at DocuSign, it has never been easier to get started
as a developer.
"We've automated the process for getting developers their
integrator keys, so they can be developing against our API almost
instantly," said Huwe. "And with almost 60% of all
transactions on the DocuSign platform coming through the API
today—and more than 80,000 developer sandboxes currently open on
the platform—the developer community is extremely important to
us."
For more information visit momentum.docusign.com. and
developers.docusign.com
Media Relations:
Adrian
Wainwright
Head of Communications
media@docusign.com
Investor Relations:
Annie
Leschin
VP Investor Relations
investors@docusign.com
About DocuSign, Inc.
Founded in 2003, DocuSign offers
the leading e-signature solution as part of its broader System of
Agreement platform. DocuSign's cloud-based platform allows
companies of all sizes and across all industries to quickly and
easily make nearly every agreement, approval process, or
transaction digital—from almost anywhere in the world, on
practically any device. Today, we enable more than 400,000
customers and hundreds of millions of users in over 180 countries
worldwide to accelerate business and simplify life.
For more information, visit www.docusign.com, call
+1-877-720-2040, or follow @DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn,
Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
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