There's nothing like a spurious yet still accurate statistic to stir some thinking.
Based on a quick analysis across our userbase, 67.4% of the Fortune 500 (or at least the Fortune 500 as of 1/31 - some change there of late) have used EchoSign.
What does this mean? Given how easy it is to use web services like EchoSign, it does not -- of course -- mean we've completely conquered corporate America. While we're extremely proud of our Fortune 500 customers like Dell, GE, Time Warner, SAP, HP, etc. etc., the reality is e-signatures are just beginning to enter the mainstream of corporate contracting processes.
But what it does speak to is the trend, which is really just beginning to take off in 2009, of making your contracting and signature processes just as simple, just as easy and, most importantly, just as web-based, as your other business processes.
It's starting. 2009 will be the year web-based signatures begin to go mainstream. 2010 will be the year the momentum really grows. And by 2016, people will wonder, and even laugh at, the notion that in the old days, people used to have to use fax, snail mail, or a fedex to sign things. Not tomorrow. But it's coming, and happening, and accelerating, now.
Wow, congrat's, quite an achievement.
:-)
Posted by: Zoli Erdos | March 12, 2009 at 10:04 PM