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Most importantly, we will grow from where we are today (about 1% of all contracts signed on the web) to 50%+ (the majority) in 4-6 years.  The broader market will grow 50x, and with that, the market will fundamentally change.At a product/technical level, there will be at least 3 important evolutions as the % of contracts signed on the web that we see at EchoSign:Seamless web workflow (integrations).  Today, it's still relatively nichey to, for example, create a document in Google Docs or pull a form from DropBox or Box.net, review/edit/collaborate on the document, send it out to get signed, and then have it all stored on the web, in the cloud.  In 3-5 years, the entire contracting workflow and process will be 100% web and cloud based.100% web-based contract.  Today, only a minority of e-signed contracts are created purely on the web.  Instead, most contracts are still local content - a local PDF, or a local Word document.  In 3-5 years, the contract will be 100% web-based and completely abstracted from not only paper, but from an off-line contract creation process.  This makes e-signatures a requisite, not optional, part of the contracting process.Dramatically more functionality.  From a functionality perspective, the solutions and market are still at a nascent stage.  As the market grows 50x in the next few years, the demands for functionality will grow 50x.  Whether it's basic things like HTML5 support for e-signing on the iPad, or tailoring the electronic signature experience in real-time based on the country the signer is in, or bigger changes, like true web-based contract collaboration, the bar will continue to go up.Because of this, the market is likely to end up with "2.5" leading players.  E-signatures and e-contracting are too nuanced, and require too much workflow and too high a level of user-specific functionality, to become just a feature of another solution.  The level of solution complexity certainly is not as high as standalone CRM, for example (where competing with Salesforce.com at this point is impractical), but it is much higher than simple web apps (e.g., document or content storage) or even web conferencing/collaboration (WebEx/GoToMeeting/etc.).  The solutions also benefit from scale and users, but do not have a true network effect.  Also, electronic signatures have a signNow legal component, which creates challenges to immature products.Thus, 4-5 years out (perhaps not 3), we are likely to see (x) e-signatures having become the primary way contracts are signed, period, with (y) a few leaders (a la WebEx and GoToMeeting) whose products are deeply integrated with, but not subsumed by, the workflows and integrations of the web, along with a few smaller players with niche offerings and relatively small customer bases.

I've thought about this since about 2006.As not only a co-founder and CEO of EchoSign, but a Salesforce customer for many years, you do wonder why everything isn't included.  Salesforce is the single largest software expense a sales-focused company will make.  Why doesn't it include e-signatures?  Why doesn't it have real lead scoring?  Why not a sales comp tool?  Why not real drip email marketing?  Why not a more robust email tool, period?  Why not robust de-duping?  Why only a basic quoting tool, not a rich proposal tool?  Why only limited content management tools?  There are so many Why don'ts? that that may be the answer right there ... so my simple answer is Salesforce is focused on its core and strategic expansions to its core, historically to the present.Having said that, there are at least 3 practical reasons:1.  First, e-signatures have a signNow legal element to them.   It's one thing for a start-up to claim their document signing tool is 100% legally E-SIGN complaint and binding under federal, state, European and international law.  It's quite another thing for a Fortune 500 company to take that on.  signNow did in acquiring EchoSign -- and that's not trivial.  It's a big deal.  No other F500 company has done this.  Ever.2.  Second, it's all about the workflow at this point. EchoSign and signNow are 100x richer products than they were 5 years ago, and Salesforce integration only increases that geometrically.  Neither product is just about document signing.  For example, Groupon has over 36,000 different contract generation/review/signature/workflow/trigger combinations using EchoSign. The signature is just the connecting piece.  This is really hard to replicate without a huge effort.  It can be done, but it's many years of effort and building 1000s of features.  Not just a JPEG of a signature.3. Is it really core? Historically contracts and signing them have been related to the core of CRM, but not really core. And Salesforce has often focused on building adjacent to the core (Support, Markering, Chatter, etc.) even more than the well built-out core CRM/SFA.Having said that, what if SFDC does decide to enter the space?  Given the complexity in #2, it makes a lot more sense to buy than build. There are only two serious players -- EchoSign and signNow.  There are other very tiny players, but their Salesforce integrations, if they exist, are rudimentary from a workflow perspective and not fully enterprise-ready, at least not today.  Ok so EchoSign and signNow ... EchoSign was acquired by signNow in 2011, so acquiring EchoSign per se is off the table.  Salesforce could in theory I guess buy just the Salesforce team/integration from signNow.  Actually, that's not a terrible idea.  Buying signNow is even harder.  While Salesforce has made a small investment there, the post-money in the last round was $500m, making an acquisition implausible.  Even if valuation were not an issue, only a small % of signNow's revenue is from the Salesforce integration, making an acquisition to only write off 80% of the customers and revenue (100% if they gave it away), odd.  Salesforce could just offer a very limited functionality and perhaps they will. But a basic functionality won't solve the need for a rich create/dynamic, multi-variable web contract/sign/collaboration/trigger/workflow solution that is what 90%+ of all the EchoSign and signNow Salesforce customers are really using.  For example, Salesforce has basic functionality with Quotes and Content.  But neither really has displaced the need for much richer products like Conga Composer, or even Box.  See, also, the Contracts tab which is very limited, and has in no way displaced the need for any vendors in the contract management space.It's just hard in a large company to build very rich, complex features that aren't in the core.  In the core, it's easy.

That could mean a lot of things, depending on what kind of contract you need. Is it a 200 page document? Or a simple 3 page proposal with some contractual terms and conditions and e-signature?Assuming you want the latter, you can use Mimiran, which I developed to handle just this problem. You can sign up for a free trial, and there's a sample project proposal template in there that includes some basic T's & C's (always check with your lawyer) and e-signature.The real key is not the technology, though. It's understanding what your prospect needs, developing the right solution for/with them, and knowing how they will make the buying decision, then using the technology to quickly generate a contract that covers those bases.

HR is the potential tool for enabling cultural transformation and hence build digital capabilities and mindset for businesses. In the digital era that is fast taking over the work places today, how we design the employee experience is critical since that translates to customer experience and business transformation… “what an employee has not experienced in the organization, he/she cannot curate for the customer or business.” What reshapes the HR function is their position as the curators of employee experience, being the change evangelists to drive the transformation and being a strategic partner to business. HR in its transactional / administrative role will cease to exist sooner or later in the “self-service” and “hyper personalized” mode that the work force today operates in. But the change is for the better, for HR to take on more strategic, more enabling role for the employees and the business at large. Employee Experience Curators: They say it is going to be a “gig economy” – multiple types of employees and employment patterns emerging with the evolving business ecosystem. Diversity emerges not only in terms of gender or race but in terms of employment types like free lancing, assignment-based, virtual working and so on. To accommodate and encourage this diverse population, HR professionals need to gear up and curate experiences through the employee lifecycle that engage their employees by motivating & connecting with them in a way that inspires the individual. The challenge that HR will have is to understand their employee personas and build the work place infrastructure, policies, processes and engagements tailored for individuals as opposed to the mass-made approach. Change Evangelists: Transformation is not a singular process anymore… it is a phenomenon that is continuous and evolving. HR will be at the bedrock of this transformation and drive it as evangelists of this change through the organization in an agile manner - as and when a change is called for, the wave must emerge through all the people practices of the organization to enable the organization to turn with the tide. Strategic Business Partners: Being business partners in the real sense – speaking the language of business, understanding what the customer expects and building people practices & culture to cater to that need is what is expected in the HR. It can no longer be limited to recruitment, training, transactional processing… it has to evolve to actively be involved in business decisions. People are the power houses of any organization and they make or mar a brand… partnering with people to align them to business goals is imperative.

KiSSFLOW is one of the best approval workflow software for the following reasons:You can create any approval workflow such as invoice approval, purchase order or purchase requisition approval in just 15 minutes.Creating an approval workflow just comprises of 3 steps which are as follows:Step 1. Create a form to capture all the data that is required for the audit trail process, with the help of a simple drag-and-drop interface. You can include fields of any type like number, date, text, checkbox, attachments, currency etc. Below given is the form designing wizard of KiSSFLOW.P.S. KiSSFLOW provides 14+ customizable field types.Step 2. Set actions - Create a workflow : You can create tailor made workflows to set action items for each step, with simple business steps and without having to use or learn any complex notations to depict the steps in the process.Step 3. Add stakeholders - Assign each step to the respective stakeholder and include them as a part of the workflow.KiSSFLOW enables one-click approval by integrating with the users’ inbox.You can also set conditions, based on which, the item can be approved. For instance, you can define a condition, which states that your invoice has to be approved by your VP if the amount is greater than $10000. (Condition-based approval).You can also set field-level permissions. For example, you may not want someone from the sales team to edit the amount field in your invoice and you may set it as read-only field for them.Approval workflow is KiSSFLOW’s sweet spot.10,000+ enterprises and SMBs use KiSSFLOW for their approval workflows.I work for KiSSFLOW ;)Besides the above-mentioned reasons, KiSSFLOW has the top 10 features which every approval workflow software must have, which are as follows:1. Graphical representation of business steps2. WYSIWYG Form Designer3. Role-based accessibility4. User reassignment5. Report generation6. Cloud omnipresence7. Document integration8. SLA indication9. Workflow pattern flexibility10. Email notificationFind the snapshots of KiSSFLOW’s UI below:Highlights:With KiSSFLOW, you can also assign tasks, send email notifications, seek clarity (if there’s some ambiguity in the process) and capture the entire process from the beginning till the end. The admin of each process also has access to the history of every workflow in a process.The advanced reporting feature enables you to analyze each process, figure out the bottlenecks and thereby improve the efficiency of the process in terms of speed and accuracy.Convinced? Not yet? Either way, try KiSSFLOW and then decide it yourself.

Sometimes we really don’t understand what we mean under “best”, even this question doesn’t elaborate what the best service means? Which criteria the author believes the service fits the best? price?best design? Reliability?Let’s better talk about “suitable” for this moment and current needs.As the previous answers mentioned, do you need the service to be available on all major platforms or a signature that will stand up in court?Do you need a free simple solution, a feature-rich service that charges on the amount of signatures/documents signed or on monthly basis?Do you need to work with your documents on the go with low or no internet connection (while travelling, in the airport or plane)?And you can ask yourself with tons of such questions to create a matrix of features-service to choose the one you need. Or you can use 3rd party platforms like Alternativeto to initially select the provider you are interested in.When we conducted a closed beta testing for signNow recently, one of the goals was to understand the main criterias SMB owners from US use to choose a solution or switch to another one.We interviewed more than 230 businesses and what’s interesting, while the top factor goes to Security&data privacy, price or for example, digital signature availability is not in Top-3 of choices. Speed of an app/solution and multiplatform availability (works in web browser as well as on Mac, iPhone/iPad, Android and Windows devices) are what values higher.So, if there is a need to sign/send documents on Mac, iphone/ipad, android, windows and web browser and to work with documents offline, signNow is alternative to go with. We are still in beta, implementing some major requests from our beta users, but will be launching this September.And, signNow is free while in beta.

With the choice of a right e signature app you are just a few clicks away in creating your electronic signature. Once it is built all you need to do is download the document you have been sent to sign digitally and place your signature at the desired place. This new technique of signing documents online has been leveraged by many business verticals using trusted software. The best part about E Signature is that it holds in the court of law and is safe & secure. It is to be noted that esignature solutions are often understood similar to digital signature solutions but they are different!Creating an Electronic Signature to Esign DocumentsAn Electronic signature can include anything from text to image or just initials with date. People opt for different ways in creating an e signature. Let’s have a look into available options of creating one:Draw It On The Touch screenWith the help o your finger or by using a stylus you can sign the same way you do it on paper. This is very easy when you are accessing the document on mobile or a tablet. This way you create your electronic signature on the document itself.Uploading An Image Of Your SignatureThere are many esignature solutions software that accepts the picture of your paper signature. You can upload the picture in the software and it will change it into a .png file and place it over the desired signature line in the document.Using Mouse Or TouchpadYou can also draw your signature with the help of a cursor or a touchpad. Take the cursor to the signature line where E-signature is required and draw it along the line.Using KeyboardThe simplest way is to type the spelling of your name using the keyboard, and chose the desired font that looks similar with your paper signature. It’s done; your electronic signature is made.These are some very basic and simple ways to create your distinctive electronic signature. Chose any e signature solutions matching with your requirements and you are ready to create your unique electronic signature which can be used as your identity anywhere in the online world.

You may want to consider WorkflowGen. Its easy-to-use integrated workflow and form designers let process designers create workflows that can include many actors with great flexibility, and allow for a high degree of customization. It keeps a detailed request history and stores data that you can use for audit trail purposes, and you can easily configure custom reports and charts.Processes can be easily defined using its easy-to-use integrated workflow and form designers. For example, a simple leave application might look like this in the graphical workflow designer:So setting up a workflow, even with multiple approvers, would be pretty easy as well. The WYSIWYG form designer lets you professional-looking create forms with textboxes, radio buttons, drop-down lists, gridviews, and so on.Documents and forms can be routed to other approvers or sent back to the originator for modifications, and can be stored in predefined folders as configured in the workflow, so nothing gets lost. Users can modify the documents and forms, leave comments, set deadlines and easily track the status of approvals and other requests.Email notifications keep users up-to-date over the entire course of the workflow, and you can configure not only overdue notifications but pre-overdue notifications, since it's obviously better to be notified before an action is late than after. If someone is on vacation or off sick, their approvals can quickly be reassigned to someone else.WorkflowGen's Quick Mass Approval feature lets you perform quickly perform validations all at once. You can access documents and forms from this screen, since you can open the request form and access any attachments, read comments and consult request information.The User Portal is simple to use, and WorkflowGen's Dashboard feature lets users track the status of their approvals in real time at every stage of the process. The Dashboard can also be used with Quick Mass Approval, so everything you have to approve is available at a glance, and refreshes every time you return to or reload the Portal home page.WorkflowGen's mobile app lets users perform approvals and access the document and forms from anywhere and on any device. This can eliminate bottlenecks and delays in the approval circuit, such as when someone's waiting on an urgent document to approve but has to leave the office. The Remote Approval feature lets users validate documents by replying to or clicking a button in an email.And of course, as a BPM solution, WorkflowGen lets you set rules, such as triggering additional required signatures on a specific document or form based on certain information. For this you could use the document's metadata (which can be updated dynamically over the course of the process) as workflow data for the rule.Hope this helps.Cheers.