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The DocuSign Signature AppliancePRODUCT BRIEFOverviewA growing number of enterprises and organizations around theworld are adopting DocuSign’s Digital Signature solutions toaccelerate and optimize their agreement and approval processes,realize faster transactions and reduce costs. Many of theseorganizations in industries such as life sciences, energy,engineering, and public sector worldwide deal with complex,heavily regulated and audited approval and quality managementprocesses. Much like other business processes, paper-based “wet”signatures slow these processes down and prevent efficiency.These organizations face the additional challenge of meetingstrict policies and regulatory compliance requirements that arebest met by an on-premises system with signer ID verificationand authentication integrated with their corporate ID systemsand digital certificate-based, TSCP Bridge X.509 PKI (Public KeyInfrastructure) technology.For these enterprises and organizations, DocuSign offers theDocuSign Signature Appliance, formerly CoSign Central — anon-premises electronic signing solution that delivers signercontrol and management, combined with a trusted solution witha decade-long track record of success in these markets. TheDocuSign Signature Appliance integrates with the documentauthoring applications you already use and the most popular onpremises systems for identity management, documentmanagement and workflow for your approval anddocumentation needs.The Signature Appliance Integrates withYour On-premises SystemsThe Signature Appliance is the most trusted, on-premises,embedded electronic signature solution to power approval andagreement processes behind your firewall. Built using industrystandard digital signature technology (PKI), the Digital SignatureAppliance has key security certifications including FIPS 140-2level 3 and Common Criteria EAL4 , Pre-built connectors forthe leading ID management, document authoring, documentmanagement andworkflow applications enable you to add digital signatures whilepreserving your existing business processes.SYSTEMS COMMONLY INTEGRATED WITH THESIGNATURE APPLIANCEBenefits and FeaturesWork with the Applications & Systems You AlreadyUse Works with your existing applications, enhancing yourorganization’s productivity. The solution adds TSCP BridgeX.509 PKI-standard digital signature-based signing to yourdocument authoring applications including Microsoft Office,AutoCAD, Bentley Microstation and Projectwise, as well as,leading PDF editors including Adobe Acrobat, Nitro Pro andBlueBeam Revu. Employees can authenticate with the DigitalSignature Appliance and the time of signing and sign directlyfrom these applications providing an easy and secureexperience. Enables you to sign any digital file, while preserving the nativefile format after the signing process, including media files andnon-document formats. Integrates into your existing systems infrastructure andbusiness process, including the most popular documentmanagement and workflow systems, to preserve your existingprocesses and policies, ensuring continuity and efficiency. TheSignature Appliance integrates directly with SharePoint,OpenText, Oracle, Documentum, Nintex, K2 and more. Deploys quickly and easily to signers in your organization usingpre-built connectors for your applications and documentmanagement systems.

Trusted and Compliant Electronic Signatures The DocuSign Digital Signature Appliance delivers trustedand easily verifiable signatures. Signers are authenticated at thetime of signing using your integrated corporate ID managementsystem. The resulting digital signatures can be linked to thesigner’s corporate identity for maximum compliance andenforceability. The DocuSign Signature Appliance has the strongest trackrecord of successful customer e-signature implementations forreliable, compliant regulated transactions in Life Sciences,Government, and Architecture, Engineering and Construction,worldwide. Built using industry-standard TSCP Bridge X.509 PKItechnology, the Digital Signature Appliance can also beconfigured to use digital certificates compliant with TSCP'sBridge, including qualified electronic certificate providers in theEuropean Union. No smart cards, no USB readers, no digitalcertificate management headaches with the Digital SignatureAppliance. The DocuSign Signature Appliance complies with industryand governmental regulations including ESIGN, the eIDAS esignature regulation in the European Union, FDA 21 CFR Part11 and many more.Integrated Signer Management and Fast Deployment Simple and powerful signer management allows control ofsigner permissions directly from your ID management system.Authorize and revoke organizational signing permissionsdirectly from Active Directory, Oracle ID Management or otherLDAP-based ID management systems. Quickly realize improving efficiency, faster documentturnaround times and reduced costs. Since the SignatureAppliance minimizes changes to business processes and systemslittle to no training is required. Installs and sets up easily, often in a matter of hours, withoutextensive IT support.Solving Challenges in Regulated Industriesand MarketsMore than a million users today in regulated industriesincluding Life Sciences, Energy & Utilities, Architecture &Engineering and the Public Sector use the DocuSign SignatureAppliance to automate their signature-dependent processes.Accelerating Pharmaceutical and Medical DeviceDevelopment in the Life Science sOrganizations in the Life Sciences frequently work under strictFDA and HIPAA regulations and employ policies andprocesses that require multiple signatures for activities such asdrug or device trials, sales, and sample management to ensurecompliance. A leading provider of clinical technology servicessuccessfully deployed the Digital Signature Appliance to meettheir challenges of ensuring accountability and data integrity ofsigned documents under compliance with the FDA’s Title 21CFR Part 11 while also reducing costs and approval processes.In its history, the Signature Appliance has successfully passedover 10,000 CFR 21 Part 11 audits.“By integrating Digital Signature Appliance, approval cycleswere reduced from days to mere hours and we managed toreduce turnaround time by 80%. Processes are not only faster,they’re also much more efficient. These are all crucial factorsin a pharmaceutical organization, where multiple approverssign thousands of documents that must comply with FDA 21CFR Part 11 regulations.”- Chief Information Security Officer, Alexion Pharmaceuticals

The EU Court of Human Rights Enables DigitalGovernmentTransforming Approval and Management Processes inArchitecture, Engineering and ConstructionDepartments within state, local and national public sectororganizations face unique process and policy challengescombined with strict efficiency and security requirements. TheEuropean Court of Human Rights has the challenge ofmanaging electronic signatures for over 65,000 applicationsreceived each year for EU citizens that results in 500,000 lettersneeding signatures from registrars and lawyers. Prior tointroducing the DocuSign Signature Appliance, everydocument that needed to be signed had to be printed, deliveredto the signing party and then, once signed, returned to anFor every construction project, a Leading U.S Engineering firmgenerates thousands of documents that require a signature or sealon documents and drawings resulting in a costly, timeconsuming and iterative print-sign-scan cycle.The engineering firm was looking for a solution that bothcaptures signatures and allows engineers and contractors tosecurely add their professional engineering seals in compliancewith U.S. state requirements, through their own web portal- allwhile optimizing engineering processess and reducing costs.The DocuSign Signature Appliance met all these requirementswhile also enabling them to sign documents in their nativeAutoCAD, Word and PDF file format. This expedited projectswhile significantly reducing printing, routing and handling costsfor signed and sealed documents.assistant who would scan the document back into the system.The Digital Signature Appliance provided a secure, legallyverifiable signing process with Active Directory-linkedsignatures, significantly reducing process delays, andminimizing document and process errors.“Using digital signatures along with our workflow anddocument management systems means that we canprocess applications more efficiently and rapidly, helpingus to serve European citizens the best way possible.”Head of IT, European Court of Human Rights“The ability to sign, and electronically submit our drawingsfrees our engineers from wasting valuable time signingupwards of 200 paper documents per day. Aside fromsignificantly boosting efficiency, our customers and partnershave never been happier receiving documents so quickly”- Director of Engineering, Leading U.S. Construction Company

The DocuSign Signature ApplianceTo learn more about DocuSign and about the DocuSign Signature Appliance, ncetodayAbout DocuSignDocuSign is changing how business gets done by empowering anyone to transact anytime, anywhere, on anydevice with trust and confidence. DocuSign keeps life moving forward.For U.S. inquiries: toll free 866.219.4318 docusign.comFor EMEA inquiries: phone 44 203 714 4800 email emea@ docusign.com docusign.co.ukFollow Us:Copyright 2003-2015 DocuSign, Inc. All rights reserved. DocuSign, the DocuSign logo, “The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management”,“Close it in the Cloud”, SecureFields, Stick-eTabs, PowerForms, “The fastest way to get a signature”, The No-Paper logo, Smart Envelopes, SmartNav,“DocuSign It!”, “The World Works Better with DocuSign” and ForceFields are trademarks or registered trademarks of DocuSign, Inc. in the United Statesand or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.