In honor of upcoming Earth Day, we wanted to highlight how we are working to go Green 2.0.
Making your contracting process paperless with EchoSign is obviously one of the simplest things you can do to go green with web services. The amount of waste from contracts is particularly alarming, with, according to CitiGroup, the average 8-10 page contract being photocopied, printed, or reprinted, almost 10 times by all the various parties and departments.
Going to EchoSign can cut that waste 90-100% overnight. And we appreciate the nods from companies like BT, HiDef Web Solutions, Qualcomm, The American Lung Association, and many others on how e-contracting has materially contributed to their Going Green efforts.
Having said that, there is still more that can be done. Going paperless by using e-signatures is the low hanging fruit. But there are stil those pesky servers. So we've gone Green 2.0 and 100% wind-powered.
Based on our calculations of about 71 customers per server in our application, we believe that EchoSign circa January 2009 cuts your total energy consumption vs. using paper by about 90-95%, depending on the number of iterative copies.
To get that up to about 97%, we've done the following:
- Database and file enhancements to enable more customers / server
- Upgrade of server configurations to most energy efficient CPUs, storage and memory; and
The final step is offset all server energy consumption with 100% wind-powered renewable energy credits. EchoSign uses NativeEnergy to fully offset all power consumed by our servers, and an estimate of the energy consumed by our senders and signers as well.
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