Enhanced Partner Program Announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 

AssureSign LLC, a leading provider of electronic signature technology, today announced its enhanced Partner Program, which is unveiled in conjunction with Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, held July 11 through 15 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

AssureSign leads the electronic signature market with easy to deploy tools that can seamlessly integrate electronic signature applications with existing business tools with minimal effort. AssureSign is already pre-integrated with the Microsoft Dynamics® Suite, Microsoft SharePoint and several other Microsoft-based applications in the financial services and CRM markets.

The new AssureSign Partner Program builds upon the previous program and success with partner-developed applications and implementations. The program will provide qualified members access to a development instance of the AssureSign application, a complete API Toolkit, access to AssureSign’s developers’ web forum, attendance in training programs and technical support. The most significant feature of the new program is the ability for partners to embed AssureSign in their existing applications and transparently provide an electronic signature component for their customers. Partners will enjoy branding capabilities that will enable them to customize all user experiences for both document originators and signatories. Partners can further benefit by reselling the AssureSign application with their applications, as a means for increased top-line revenue.

The new AssureSign Partner Program will include two distinct partner classifications – Integration Partner and Reseller Partner. Integration Partners will have full access to development platforms that will enable them to build application integrations and then move them to customer production environments. Reseller Partners will have full access to ‘master reseller accounts’ that will allow them to create instances of AssureSign to deploy as needed for their customers, with complete individualized branding capabilities for each implementation.

“Our DocumentNOW® and DocumentTRAK™ API tools, which allow our partners and customers to tightly integrate with existing environments, including Microsoft applications, has been heralded by existing partners as the most comprehensive, flexible and easy to work with API Toolkit in the electronic signature market,” says David Brinkman, AssureSign’s president and chief executive officer. “Since inception our platform has been very partner-centric with the ability for partners to brand and resell AssureSign – this new set of reseller options provide out partners additional access and an even greater benefit.”

To learn more about AssureSign’s new Partner Program, stop by the AssureSign Booth (#133) in the WPC Expo, or visit www.assuresign.com/partners.html.

About AssureSign LLC

Enterprise customers who focus on SAS-70 vendors realize that not all SAS-70 certifications are the same.  AssureSign, like some other electronic signature vendors, provides customers with the security of running their cloud-based, or SaaS, offering in a SAS-70 Type II environment.  However, other signature vendors merely host their application on other systems, located in someone else’s SAS-70 data center.  That’s great, they are SAS-70 Type II, but there is more to SAS-70 Type II certification than outsourcing your data center.  Which is why AssureSign runs our own Tier 4 (highest possible type) SAS-70 Type II data center.

AssureSign takes it to the next level.  First, we have explicit control over uptime – our own enterprise class, fully redundant (also geo-redundant) in-house data center is SAS-70 Type II certified, offering a Tier 1 level of reliability, providing our customers 99.994% uptime over the last 4 years!  Secondly, we take it to the next level with enterprise-wide SAS-70 Type II certification.

Obtaining enterprise-wide SAS-70 Type II certification means that ALL aspects of AssureSign have a specifically defined tested process and we’re audited annually to assure we adhere to those processes.   This certification includes all internal processes and systems such as software/code development, quality assurance, soft releases, human resources and billing.  Just as important are all customer facing processes such as sales, training and customer support.  The all-encompassing certification means that the way we develop our industry-leading applications and deploy them on our owned and controlled servers while supporting them in certified processes ensures the best possible level of service.

This is important to us and should be more important to our customers.   In order to provide a true enterprise-class SaaS offering, all aspects of the business need to operate in an enterprise class environment at all levels.  This is certainly exemplified by our ever-expanding enterprise-level customer base, who see the value in enterprise-wide SAS-70 Type II certification and, more importantly, understand and appreciate the difference between AssureSign and any other electronic signature vendor.

AssureSign and sister company 3PV have over 10 years of experience in providing SaaS applications, having processed 30 million transactions and over 100 million unique ‘signature events’ and we will continue to lead the field in enterprise class offerings in products, features and customer support.

Leading Provider of Electronic Signatures Will Showcase Integrated Product Offerings

AssureSign LLC, a leading provider of electronic signature technology for the insurance industry, today announced that its integrated solutions will be featured at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, to be held May 24 through 26 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

AssureSign has been providing leading edge electronic signature solutions to the insurance and financial services markets for nearly five years, and is the only electronic signature solution to provide an enterprise-wide SAS-70 Type II certification in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment, as well as the ability to install the same application on customer premise. Partners and customers have come to recognize AssureSign’s ease of deployment, depth of integration capabilities, and unique, broadly-accepted biometric signature process.

To further demonstrate AssureSign’s integration capabilities, the AssureSign solution will be demonstrated at ACORD LOMA by both Duck Creek® Technologies (Booth #639) and LexisNexis Risk® Solutions (Booth #237) as a seamless part of their solutions.  Visitors to the booths will learn how AssureSign’s unique biometric mouse-based signature process can replicate any pen-and-paper signing workflow, keeping the entire transaction electronic and producing signatures that look like a traditional pen-based signature.  In an all-electronic process, insurance providers recognize significant cost savings and operational efficiencies by using the AssureSign DocumentTRAK™ API to instantaneously transmit executed documents into existing systems.

“The true benefits of AssureSign electronic signature applications are recognized when they are deeply integrated with existing business applications such as those offered by Duck Creek and LexisNexis,” said David W. Brinkman, chief executive officer of AssureSign LLC. “As part of our commitment to insurance, we are proud to partner with industry leaders to provide simple solutions with sophisticated functionality that further enhance the insurance contract process, saving end-users both time and money.”

About AssureSign LLC
AssureSign LLC is a leading provider of web-based electronic signature solutions, featuring unique, patent-pending technology that allows for the execution of any document with forensically identifiable, biometric signatures or typed ‘certified’ signatures. AssureSign is a highly secure and flexible “cloud computing” application that requires absolutely no downloads for the document originator or the document signer. Using the standards-based DocumentNOW® and DocumentTRAK™ integration tools, AssureSign can easily integrate with existing business processes within any enterprise, regardless of size.  AssureSign customers consistently experience dramatic cost savings, as well as significant reduction in the time to execute documents. For more information visit www.assuresign.com.

About ACORD
ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit standards development organization serving the insurance industry and related financial services industries. ACORD’s mission is to facilitate the development of open consensus data standards and standard forms. ACORD members include hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, agents and brokers, software providers, and industry associations worldwide. ACORD works with the organizations towards a goal of improved data communication across diverse platforms through implementation of standards. ACORD maintains offices in New York and London.

About LOMA
Established in 1924, with 1,200 plus member companies in over 80 countries, LOMA is committed to a business partnership with its world-wide members in the insurance and financial services industry to improve their management and operations through quality employee development, research, information sharing, and related products and services.

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For nearly five years, AssureSign has been providing leading edge electronic signature solutions to the financial services market. Our partners and customers have come to recognize our ease of deployment, the depth of our integration capabilities, and our unique, broadly accepted biometric electronic signature process. We are also the only e-signature solution to provide our customers with an enterprise-wide SAS-70 Tpe II certification in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment, along with the ability to install the same application on customer premise.

To demonstrate our success, AssureSign is participating in the 2010 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum for the third consecutive year. This year, we are pleased to announce that you can find us exhibiting alongside our partners Duck Creek Technologies and LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Stop by to see how our partners and joint customers are experiencing increased close rates, enhanced productivity, lower risk factors and seamless document handling and tracking capabilities within the respective partners' insurance solutions.

Electronic Signatures Provide an Accelerated Document Execution Process

AssureSign LLC, a leader in electronic signature technology, today announced it has entered into a partnership with Duck Creek Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the insurance industry.

AssureSign and Duck Creek have collaborated to bring best of breed, unique solutions to market together with the integration of industry-leading electronic signatures into industry-leading policy administration and sales automation applications. This integrated solution enhances the customer acquisition and renewal process by increasing revenue and improving profitability while cutting costs.

As affirmation of this partnership, AssureSign will sponsor and exhibit at the Duck Creek Insurance Forum which will be held May 3-6 at the Wild Dunes Resort in Charleston, SC. Additionally, the companies will be demonstrating their integrated solution in Booth #709 at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, to be held May 24-26 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV in Booth #821 at the IASA 2010 Educational Conference and Business Show, June 6-9 at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, TX.

“AssureSign is committed to providing customers with the latest technology and the simplest integration into their business process workflows,” says David W. Brinkman, chief executive officer of AssureSign. “Through our partnership with Duck Creek, insurance carriers and agents can easily create policies for signing electronically with robust tracking, workflow and reporting capabilities, for an improved and accelerated sales process.”

“The DCT partnership with AssureSign is another sign our commitment to lead the way in both ‘Speed to Market’ and ‘Superior User Experience’ for our Policy Administration customers,” according to John Roller, Sr. VP, Product Management at Duck Creek.   “Customers implementing new products with Duck Creek will find the ‘off the shelf’ integration saves them both time and cost-to-market.  End users of the system will find the resulting improved workflow and straight-through-processing a boost to productivity – using the ease of doing business as a lever for retaining current customers and closing new sales.”

Electronic Signature Solution Increases Efficiency and Expedites Authorizations

AssureSign LLC’s Electronic Signature Technology has been selected as the electronic signature solution by Western Computer Services, Inc. (WCSI), the Software as a Service (SaaS) provider of policy management and claims management for a growing list of Farm Bureau Insurance companies.

In general, Farm Bureau Insurance markets insurance products to business and consumers in some of the most rural areas of the United States. A significant challenge to serving these regions is securing the business after a quote has been given to a potential customer; most consumers don’t have fax machines, and travel in many parts of these regions, for both the customer and the agent can be quite time consuming and cumbersome.

AssureSign’s Web-services enable WCSI to embed electronic signatures into their insurance application, for seamless integration into their existing business process. Applications are routed to the insured’s email for signature or in the agent’s office, and the signed document triggers policy creation and delivery to underwriting and imaging for archival.

Since the entire AssureSign Electronic Signature process is tracked digitally, users have a complete forensic audit trail of the delivery and signing process. This enables users to know exactly when documents are received, when they are signed, and who has or has not signed them, providing users with complete control over the signing process. With the implementation of AssureSign, Farm bureau Insurance can follow the signing process from start to finish and receive notification the moment that signing is complete.

Implementing AssureSign Web-based electronic signatures greatly helped WCSI and Farm Bureau Insurance’s customers and their agents with the customer acquisition process. The sales process has become much more timely and efficient, and the costs associated with faxing and mailing documents has been eliminated.

Philip Teagle, Application Development Director for WCSI noted, “Incorporating AssureSign’s web based electronic signature into our policy processing systems has opened up new channels for our customer’s agents to be more agile in conducting business,  and has eliminated the need for distribution and maintenance of digital signature equipment for agents using our systems.”

“The true benefits of AssureSign electronic signature applications are recognized when they are deeply integrated with existing business applications, such as Farm Bureau’s web-based policy system,” said David W. Brinkman, president and chief executive officer of AssureSign LLC. “This integration allows for document creators to automatically create documents from within existing applications, triggering front- and back-end workflow, so the entire process saves the organization both time and money.”

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new and improved website. The new site has been redesigned with a fresh new look to provide a more comprehensive source of information regarding AssureSign's latest products and services, industry applications, recent news and upcoming events. Additionally, the site enables visitors to "Demo It Now" and experience using AssureSign Electronic Signature Technology.

We invite you to visit the new www.assuresign.com today!

Building on the latest features released in our core SaaS application version 2.1.1, the AssureSign for Salesforce application has been converted to access the faster and more feature-rich V2 DocumentNOW® interfaces.

One powerful addition made possible by this conversion is the ability to submit documents stored in Salesforce that contain dynamically created JotBlocks™ (AssureSign signature and data collection locations and attributes).  Customers using proprietary or third party document creation processes can leverage this new feature by inserting the well-defined dynamic JotBlock tags into their documents.

Additionally, we have made it easier to integrate AssureSign with your custom objects, through providing a more complete list of available custom object fields in the parameter tagging help section, exposing custom object fields for manual selection, and providing specific custom object field mapping examples in our online documentation.

Existing AssureSign for Salesforce users will receive a notification on their application indicating when the new version is available for download; we anticipate the general release to occur on Wednesday, March 24.  AssureSign sandbox users who access their sandbox accounts in a development version of Salesforce may access the tool starting today:  please contact support@assuresign.com for information about downloading the fully functional preview version of the tool for your development environment.