Congrats to Docusign on their funding. We have had a good response since we launched our electronic signature service at Middlepost one month ago. It’s great to see the esignature industry being adopted and growing.

DocuSign has achieved another major milestone in the company’s history. I am very pleased to announce the closing of our $12.4 million Series C funding round. Joining our strong investment team of Frazier Technology Ventures, Ignition Partners and Si…

Please note that Yozons, with its Signed & Secured and eSignForms products, is a competitor who has been in business since 2000 and has a fast growing business with significant customers (Enterprise, Citrix, Pitney Bowes, several universities and Comcast among a long list of smaller businesses), many of whom selected Yozons over DocuSign.

You also failed to mention that alamode’s SureDocs is a direct competitor in the print-to-sign electronic signature space and has a fixed annual price that is dramatically less than what DocuSign offers. Some like to use EchoSign’s solution, especially when dealing with hybrid esign-fax documents.

If you don’t see the digital signature in the PDF, it’s because it’s not been digitally signed. Digital signatures are an encryption technology, while electronic signatures are a legal concept based on process, one step of which is the ability to create a reliable electronic record. Many uses digital signatures, including Yozons, for this purpose, but it’s not clear that such technology is being used by DocuSign.

Great post. Impressive response time – the news just broke a few hours ago.

There is another eSignature provider worth mentioning; this one doesn’t depend on venture capital.

eLynx (www.elynx.com) offers uSign under the SaaS model. The product is used by mortgage lenders and insurers to make our lives less dependent on paper.

Best.

Huge difference.

Of course you need to authenticate the document signer.

I hate stating the obvious to a geek crowd, but here goes:

What you are trying to do with a digital signature is to associate agreement with terms. In other words, create an unchangeable document that the person who signs it agrees to. And this requires both authentication and non-changeability. The problems with documents, copy machines and faxes today are that it’s difficult for you to prove to a court that THIS is the exact set of terms that were agreed to (particularly when a “signature” can be cut-and-pasted (using Photoshop or scissors) and faxed.)

Digital signatures calculate a numeric hash of the document, so that changes cannot be made later. This service can prove that the document was unchanged, after it was agreed to.

The “picture” of the signature is just an icon to relate it to the physical paradigm.

http://www.signinstyle.com

naah, forget it… they’re too busy killing trees & billing hours.