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DocuSign is a San Francisco- and Seattle-based company that provides electronic signature technology and Digital Transaction Management services for facilitating electronic exchanges of contracts and signed documents. DocuSign’s features include authentication services, user identity management and workflow automation. Signatures processed by DocuSign are comparable to traditional signatures based on the product's compliance with the ESIGN Act〔(ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT ) ''Federal Trade Commission'' June 2001〕 as well as the European Union’s Directive 1999/93/EC on electronic signatures.〔(DocuSign Releases Updated Version of E-Signature Software ) Hachman, Mark ''PC Magazine'' June 30, 2010〕 The company has raised $443 million in financing since its founding in 2003. ==History== Tom Gonser founded DocuSign in 2003〔(NetUpdate Buys DocuTouch ) ''National Mortgage News'' August 22, 2001〕 when he left NetUpdate and purchased certain DocuTouch assets and started DocuSign. As it turned out, none of the DocuTouch technology or code base was used to build the first versions of DocuSign.〔(Online Signatures: DocuTouch Introduces DocuSign ) ''Internet News'' July 11, 2000〕 The firm began sales in 2005 when zipForm (now zipLogix) integrated DocuSign into its virtual real estate forms. Mock trials featuring licensed attorneys and real judges highlighted the admissibility of DocuSign contracts in court based on encrypted audit logs of signature events as well as the impossibility of changing contracts.〔(Work Smarter with a Tool Your Mom Can Use ) Bui, An ''DocuSign'' July 10, 2009〕 In June 2010, DocuSign added support for iPhone, iPad and phone-based user authentication.〔(Docusign launches new tools to entice greater e-signature adoption ) Diaz, Sam ''ZDNet''June 30, 2010〕 DocuSign also began referring to its service as “eSignature Transaction Management” to reflect the functional growth beyond signing. By the end of 2010, the company handled 73 percent of the Saas-based electronic signature market with 80 million signatures processed.〔 Scale Venture Partners led an investment round of $27 million in December 2010.〔(Washington Startups See Spike in Investing Dollars in December ) Kutz, Erin ''Xconomy'' January 28, 2011〕 Through July 2011, DocuSign had processed a total of 500 million pages. The company made a donation to the Arbor Day Foundation that month in recognition of the positive environmental impacts of electronic signatures.〔(With a Half Billion Pages Signed, DocuSign Launches Free Edition ) Empson, Rip ''TechCrunch'' July 19th, 2011〕 Keith Krach became DocuSign's chairman of the board in January 2010 and its CEO in August 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keith Krach: A dot-com CEO returns )〕 DocuSign opened an office in London, England in September 2011. In the same year, DocuSign opened an office in San Francisco, which now functions as its global headquarters. DocuSign signed an agreement in April 2012 with PayPal that allowed users to capture signatures and payments in a single transaction with DocuSign Payment.〔(PayPal partners with DocuSign to help businesses collect signatures for online payments ) Brian, Matt ''The Next Web'' April 11, 2012〕 Similar partnerships with Salesforce.com,〔(DocuSigns Delivers Close it in the Cloud! Integrated ESIGN Solutions to Salesforce ) ''Reuters'' November 5, 2009〕 and Google Drive〔(Google Drive Kicks Off with DocuSign Integration ) King, Rachel ''ZDNet'' April 24, 2012〕 preceded the PayPal agreement. In July 2012, ''Business Insider'' reported that about 90% of Fortune 500 companies had signed up to use DocuSign.,〔(At DocuSign, Keith Krach Continues His Epic 16-Year Quest To Reinvent The Business World ) Huspeni, Andrea ''Business Insider'' July 13, 2012〕 and that the firm reached 25 million users who had completed 150 million signatures in 188 countries On January 10, 2013, DocuSign and Equifax announced a partnership to simplify electronic delivery of the Requests for Transcript of Tax Return Form 4506-T to the United States Internal Revenue Service. Under the partnership, Equifax allows lenders to use DocuSign to securely send requests to loan applicants. DocuSign and〔Helft, Miguel . "DocuSign raises $47.5 million, adds Mary Meeker to board," Fortune. Retrieved 24 March 2014.〕 Equifax were among 14 firms that participated in a nine-month feasibility study of electronic signatures for 4506-T forms in 2011.〔(Equifax and Docusign Help the IRS Accelerate Forms Processing With eSignature ) PR Newswire ''Daily Markets'' January 10, 2013 〕 In October 2015, Keith Krach announced he is stepping down as CEO but will remain chairman for three more years until the CEO search is over. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DocuSign」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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