DocuSign Awarded 2014 Microsoft Office and SharePoint App Development Partner of the Year

Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management Offers Microsoft Users Easier, Faster, More Secure Way to Transact Business

 

SAN FRANCISCO – June 4, 2014 – DocuSign, Inc. (DocuSign®) announced it has been named the 2014 Microsoft Office and SharePoint App Developer Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft Corp. partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 2,800 entrants from 117 different countries worldwide.

 

“We’re excited to be recognized by Microsoft for DocuSign’s game-changing apps that enable all-new workflow scenarios that delight users,” said Gordon Payne, COO, DocuSign. “Microsoft Office and SharePoint customers will appreciate the seamless availability of DocuSign integrated into the apps they use every day. Together Microsoft and DocuSign are helping organizations go fully digital.”

 

“Leading partners like DocuSign are building award-winning apps on the Office platform to help our customers get more value directly from their most highly used applications,” said John Case, vice president of Marketing, Microsoft Office. “The strategic partnership with DocuSign helps our customers keep transactions digital and manage eSignatures seamlessly from within Office 365 and SharePoint, where they already communicate, collaborate and create. We look forward to seeing exciting developments over the next year.”

 

The annual award celebrates DocuSign as a strategic partner that is solving customer challenges with its Digital Transaction Management (DTM) platform and eSignature apps. DocuSign helps individuals and organizations of every size, industry and geography keep business digital from start to finish to complete transactions faster. With DocuSign, companies increase speed to results, reduce costs, and delight their customers, partners, suppliers and employees with a better, faster, more convenient and secure way to do business.

 

“Microsoft’s success as a company depends on great partners, and DocuSign is a shining example of the kind of innovation our partner ecosystem drives year after year,” said Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “We are honored to recognize DocuSign as this year’s winner of the 2014 Microsoft Office and SharePoint App Developer Partner of the Year Award, and we applaud DocuSign’s dedication to providing innovative solutions that drive results for our mutual customers.”

 

Earlier this year, Microsoft and DocuSign announced a long-term strategic partnership to make DocuSign’s industry-leading Digital Transaction Management (DTM) platform and eSignature apps widely available from within Microsoft Office 365. DocuSign Apps for Microsoft provide customers with the ability to submit and sign documents without leaving Microsoft applications – including Outlook, Word and SharePoint – allowing them to quickly, seamlessly, and confidently transact business. Microsoft is a longtime DocuSign customer, using DocuSign in more than 100 use cases around the world.

 

DocuSign will be recognized at the 2014 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference taking place July 13-17, 2014 in Washington, DC. Companies interested in learning more about DocuSign’s Digital Transaction Management apps for Microsoft Office 365 may visit http://www.docusign.com/microsoftapps or http://www.office.com/store.

 

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Contacts:

Shawn Roberts
TallGrass PR for DocuSign NA PR
+1 (415) 305-6456       
shawn.roberts@tallgrasspr.com                     

Julie Walsh
Chameleon PR for DocuSign EMEA PR
+44 207 680 5500   
docusign@chameleonpr.com                                  

Kaitlin Monnahan
​Weber Shandwick for Microsoft Corp.
+1 (206) 576-5506
kmonnahan@webershandwick.com

                                                                                                                             

About DocuSign Inc.
DocuSign®, The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management™. Global enterprises, business departments, individual professionals, and consumers have standardized on DocuSign, with more than 40,000 new users joining the DocuSign Global Network every day. Today, that network includes millions of users in 188 countries. DocuSign's DTM platform supports legally compliant electronic and digital signature processes tailored to meet requirements globally with localization in 43 languages. Companies and individuals DocuSign to accelerate transaction times to increase speed to results, reduce costs, increase security and compliance, and delight customers across nearly every industry – from financial services, insurance, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, communications, real estate, retail, and consumer goods to higher education, non-profit and others – as well as every business department, including sales, finance, operations, procurement, HR/staffing, legal, and customer support. For more information, visit www.docusign.com. Visit the DocuSign blog at www.docusign.com/blog and follow DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

 

About Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference
Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference provides Microsoft’s partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Worldwide Partner Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable knowledge from their peers and from Microsoft. More information can be found at http://www.digitalwpc.com and on the Partner Network home page at http://microsoftpartnernetwork.com.

 

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

 

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