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Echo Sign

EchoSign is a leading Online Electronic Signature Service. Their site claims that over 1,000,000 users and 14,000 customers use EchoSign. We like the EchoSign benefits of being able to sign documents by e-signature or by fax. 


The Echosign benefits are: 
  • Sign, track and file — in seconds
  • Accelerate our Timeraiser productivity with instant fax and e-signatures
  • Track our team and their contracts with account sharing
  • Automatically stores and manages all our signed agreements in Salesforce.com
  • Full integration with Google Apps / Docs
  • Named "Best Apps of 2008" by Salesforce.com





Our Estimated Time Saving with the Echosign/Box.net/Salesforce.com integration

From a Human Resource Allocation Budgeting Perspective
    • 1 Timeraiser = +10 hours for artist contracts, +10 hours for agency contracts, +30 hours for agency one pagers = 50 hours per Timeraiser
    • 6 Timeraisers x 50 hours = 300 hours or 0.15 FTE
    • 300 hours x $15/hour (staff time) = $4,500
    • Cost of EchoSign/Box.net = ~$3,000
    • Savings of $1,500/year + gains in productivity from less paper filing, organizational accessibility to documentation after each Timeraiser, etc.
                    From An Digital Asset Management Perspective
    • We average 30 artist contracts, 30 art winner contracts, 30 agency "1 pagers" per Timeraiser = 90 documents per Timeraiser
    • Each year, have about 100 contracts, invoices and terms of agreement documents
    • Each Timeraiser has 100 logos and images for purposing on Adobe Indesign Poster and Flyers = 600 logos
    • We work with designers across Canada who re-purpose documents that require final approval = 10 hours/Timeraiser = 60 hours
    • 6 Timeraisers x 90 documents + 100 annual documents = 640 documents per year
    • Cost of EchoSign/Box.net = $3,000
    • $0.66 per document

Comparable E-Sign Software Solutions:

DocuSign 
- Integrated with Salesforce.com, DocuSign offers secure e-signatures, and real-time status updates.
- Allows contracts to be connected in Opportunities, Accounts, Contracts, Cases in Salesforce.com. 
- DocuSign integrates with Office (Can Print to Contract) with IDR - Intelligent Document Recognition that automatically recognizes where to place signatures, initials, names and dates.

Steps required for signing: DocuSign requires Access Code which signer needs in order to sign contract.  Signer must enter in name / email before being given contract signing options. Multiple clicks required for signing. User given option to download signed contract as a PDF.
- Integrates with Salesforce Real-Time Quotes (can send electronic signatures in Salesforce Quotes).

Demo Video for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes:

YouTube Video


 
Can be used to obtain Verbal Agreements within Salesforce.com's App Exchange. "AssureSign LLC is a leading provider of web-based electronic signature solutions, featuring unique, patent-pending technology that allows for the execution of any document with forensically identifiable, biometric signatures or typed ‘certified’ signatures. AssureSign is a highly secure and flexible “cloud computing” application that requires absolutely no downloads for the document originator or the document signer."

- Integrates with Salesforce.com and Microsoft's Sharepoint
- Automated notification of a signed contract. Document history.
- $30 per seat per month 
-  No Dashboard Analytics

VeriSign: