Analysts

JMP Securities: EchoSign Named to Hot 100 for 2008 and Again for 2009

“Congratulations to EchoSign for having been selected as one of the Hot 100 Private Software Companies by the JMP Securities software research team … EchoSign is a signature automation solution for contract and document management. The service handles all types of forms — and it’s an on demand solution with a simple four-step process.”

— May 2009 & April 2008

Gartner Research Marketscope: EchoSign’s Quick Success is Impressive

“California-based EchoSign has products that appeal to any industry … In three short years, EchoSign has landed 1,100 paying customers, supported 490,000 users, ranked in the top 10 applications on salesforce.com AppExchange, and been named a Red Herring top 100 private company. EchoSign has positive references for high-volume (30,000+) contract implementations … and debuts in the MarketScope for enterprise contract management with a Promising rating. The vendor’s innovation is notable; its quick success is impressive.”

— December, 2008

RBC Capital: EchoSign Automates the Entire Signature Process

“The EchoSign solution automates the entire signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, EchoSign is a fast and secure way to get contracts signed, tracked and filed. On average, the EchoSign service reduces the signature process from over 7 days to under 42 minutes. EchoSign has won numerous awards including Red Herring Top 100 Private Company, Best of Show at Office 2.0 Conference, Judge’s Choice from IBD Network/Under the Radar.”

— August, 2008

Citigroup Research: EchoSign is Big Business

“EchoSign offers an on-demand solution for digital signatures, such as when closing sales contract. The company has a SaaS-centric business model and has achieved early success with 4,000 customers, 400,000 users, and on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange.”

— June, 2008

Beagle Research: EchoSign is “Sophisticated and Seamless”

“EchoSign is a sophisticated and easy to use tool for securely capturing signatures. EchoSign-for-Salesforce delivers seamlessly integrated on demand contract management for sell side contracts, allowing Salesforce users to send a contract directly from a Salesforce account and track the real-time status of all contracts. In addition, users can create a dashboard to measure the percent of agreements closed, contract close time, unsigned agreements, and agreements by sender.”

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— March, 2008

Gartner Research: EchoSign is “Innovative”, “Noteworthy” and “Simple”

“EchoSign provides a high convenience, low-risk assurance service for routing and signing documents … EchoSign (uniquely) also accepts faxed documents with written signatures, (and) signers do not have to register with EchoSign … EchoSign offers an inexpensive base service, and a team-base service including the auditing features, configurable document retention periods, and API-based integration with custom applications…”

— February, 2008

One to Watch: “EchoSign offers a contract management application that is noteworthy because of its innovative, e-mail-based electronic signature functionality and its architecture as a solution for mass-distribution contracts. This tool is all about simple functionality for consumer agreements and other contracts, such as HR notices and sales contracts that must be signed, returned and presented online.”

— July, 2007

Association of Corporate Counsel: “EchoSign is a Comprehensive Signature-Automation Solution”

“The most straightforward part of the contract process would seem to be getting other parties to sign your contracts. But it has tended to be something of a nuisance, as it has involved exchanging signatures by a variety of mechanisms ... and keeping track of the signature pages and who has and hasn’t signed. But comprehensive signature-automation solutions are now available. One is EchoSign. In addition to being a stand-alone product, EchoSign is also incorporated in the contract-lifecycle-management solutions offered by Upside Software and Salesforce.com ... What is particularly interesting is the tracking and filing component. EchoSign makes sure that you can easily find a signed copy later. You can, for example, send a copy to anyone or remind others to sign it if they haven’t already. And you can automatically keep track of which contracts have been signed and which haven’t.”

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— November, 2007

Infiniti Research: Independent Application Review

“EchoSign Contract Management Service is a contract signature solution system with complete, seamless integration to Salesforce. We found the application makes proposal documentation easy, and liked that it provides real-time visibility into every contract out for signature from within Salesforce.”

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— November, 2007

IACCM: “EchoSign Does Much More”

“[EchoSign] does much more than simplify transactional signatures. It puts in a whole new set of control and oversight capabilities. For example, the system allows you to oversee how many agreements are out awaiting signature and for how long. You can segment the data by trading partner, or by business group, or by country or sales rep. There are in-built controls so that only authorized signatories can apply an electronic signature (even though someone else may have actually issued the agreement).”

— May, 2007

AMR Research: “Cuts Days Off Contracting Process”

On innovative technologies in supply chain management. With Upside Software’s “impressive technology partnership" with EchoSign, "we expect at least three days to fall off” current contract cycle times.

— April, 2007

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