SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of
its continued commitment to help organizations connect and automate
how they prepare, sign, act-on, and manage agreements, DocuSign
(Nasdaq:DOCU) today announced the general availability of its Fall
'18 Release, showcasing innovation enhancements across the
board.
The DocuSign Fall '18 Release includes updates to the company's
eSignature solution and its broader System of Agreement
Platform—the most significant of which include Smart Sections,
Intelligent Insights, mobile document scanning, and an Ethereum
blockchain integration.
"The Fall '18 Release builds on the exciting announcements we
made around our System of Agreement strategy at our annual customer
and partner event, Momentum, in June this year," explained
Ron Hirson, chief product officer at
DocuSign. "It focuses on updates and enhancements across all four
stages of the agreement lifecycle—prepare, sign, act and
manage."
Smart Sections adds onto the Responsive Signing
functionality announced in the Summer '18 Release. Responsive
Signing automatically converts a PDF into HTML so it's
easy to read on any size screen with any orientation. Smart
Sections then takes this several steps further by defining
collapsible sections, page breaks, custom formatting options, and
more. For longer and complex agreements, this additional structure
and interactivity delivers a further streamlined experience.
The mobile document scanning feature enables customers to
capture, crop, resize and add multiple pages directly from an iOS
or Android device before importing into DocuSign to send and sign.
This is useful in both personal and business environments—when on
the move, or when a professional scanner is not readily
available.
Intelligent Insights—powered by one of DocuSign's partners, Seal
Software—goes beyond keywords to 'understand' concepts in agreement
clauses, as a human analyst would. For example, it would recongnize
that a clause about Internet cookies related to privacy, even if
the word 'privacy' was absent.
The same technology can automatically classify and compare how
different agreements handle various topics, so customers can spot
anomalies, risks and opportunities quickly. To this end, also
available is an add-on to Intelligent Insights, the GDPR Compliance
Pack powered by Seal. It is designed to help companies meet
the European Union's GDPR regulations by analyzing agreements for
risk and exposure.
Lastly, while DocuSign can verify the signatures and integrity
of any DocuSigned document natively, there is increasing interest
in accessing similar evidence via blockchain technology. DocuSign
is therefore including a pre-built integration with the Ethereum
blockchain in the Fall '18 Release.
"For customers that opt in, DocuSign will compute a one-way
cryptographic hash fingerprint for every completed transaction, and
write the value to the Ethereum blockchain—the most popular
blockchain for smart contracts in our view," explained Hirson.
"This hash acts as tamper-proof evidence for the transaction, and
enables any completed document to be validated independently. And
by using the Ethereum blockchain, that third party evidence for a
transaction is accessible to anyone."
For more information on the DocuSign Fall '18 Release, visit the
blog.
Media Relations:
Adrian
Wainwright
Head of Communications
media@docusign.com
Investor Relations:
Annie
Leschin
VP Investor Relations
investors@docusign.com
About DocuSign, Inc.
DocuSign helps organizations
connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act-on, and manage
agreements. As part of its cloud-based System of Agreement
Platform, DocuSign offers eSignature—the world's #1 way to sign
electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at
any time. Today, more than 425,000 customers and hundreds of
millions of users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate
the process of doing business and simplify people's lives.
For more information, visit www.docusign.com, call
+1-877-720-2040, or follow @DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn,
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