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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

DocuSign and Appirio Team Up to Offer Solutions to Finish Business Faster

Unique Cloudsourcing Delivery Model Helps Speed Customer Time-to-Value for the Leading eSignature Cloud Solution 

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 15, 2013 – (DocuSign MOMENTUM)- DocuSign, the Global Standard for eSignature®, and Appirio, a global cloud services provider, today announced a partnership in which Appirio will provide implementation, integration and development services for DocuSign customers through a cloudsourcing delivery model that speeds customer time-to-value and lowers delivery costs. This unique delivery model uses a combination of technology and traditional and remote resources, along with crowdsourced assets from the CloudSpokes development community, to increase business speed and agility.

“Employees at ninety percent of the Fortune 500 use DocuSign because it can have a simple but dramatic impact on business operations and the customer experience,” said Mike Epner, SVP of Global Services, at Appirio. “This business impact, combined with the company’s close connection with our existing partners Salesforce.com, Workday and Google, makes DocuSign a natural area for us to expand our capabilities.”

With more than 310 million documents signed on the DocuSign Global Network, DocuSign’s focus on innovation and value beyond the signature has driven the company’s growth to more than 37 million users in 188 countries. The company attracts more than 60,000 unique new DocuSigners every day, who use the electronic signature solution to upload and sign documents more efficiently and optimize paper workflows. Just as DocuSign’s solution helps customers cut transaction time from weeks to minutes, this partnership will allow customers to start seeing return on their DocuSign investment in weeks not months.

“The service provider model of the past is broken - customers moving to a cloud solution want to see long-term results without a long-term project,” said Neil Hudspith, Chief Revenue Officer, DocuSign. “As a trusted partner to more than 500 customers, Appirio has figured out how to blend speed with business impact to help our customers harness the power of cloud transactions on the DocuSign Global Network.”

Starting in June, DocuSign will be able to tap into Appirio’s in-house cloud experts and the combined talents of 75,000 specialist developers in the CloudSpokes community. DocuSign, which has used CloudSpokes effectively in the past to expand R&D resources, will become the newest “Spoke” on CloudSpokes - a private community that acts as a hub for information and challenges using the DocuSign API.  Appirio will be expanding its own use of DocuSign internally and will be investing in more DocuSign resources throughout the year to accommodate customer demand.

“As an existing customer of both DocuSign and Appirio, it’s great to see these two cloud leaders tightening their existing relationship to create a positive customer experience,” said Jason Seeba, Lead Marketing Technologist at BloomReach, who uses DocuSign for partner management, marketing operations and talent acquisition. “The ability to easily access technical expertise and existing integration and implementation assets is a huge benefit for a high-growth company that doesn’t want to distract our own resources from our core business.”

For more information about DocuSign and Appirio, please visit Appirio at DocuSign MOMENTUM at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis, May 14-16, 2013. Appirio is a silver-level sponsor of the annual MOMENTUM conference and can be found online at www.appirio.com.

DocuSign MOMENTUM is the premier annual eSignature transaction management user conference. DocuSign MOMENTUM features industry thought leaders sharing insights, experiences, and best practices on adopting cloud, digital, and mobile technologies to dramatically enhance business results.

About Appirio
Appirio is a global services provider who uses crowdsourcing and cloud, social and mobile technology to help enterprises reimagine their business and become more agile. Appirio brings together technology expertise with a deep understanding of the way people work, and the nearly limitless skills of a crowdsourcing community of 70,000+ developers, to help enterprises transform relationships with their customers, partners and workforce. Appirio has worked with more than 500 enterprises, including organizations like Facebook, Intuit, Japan Post Network, L'Oreal, McGraw-Hill, NetApp, The Four Seasons, and Virgin America.  The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic.

About DocuSign Inc.
DocuSign®, The Global Standard for eSignature®, is the leader in eSignature transaction management. Global enterprises, business departments, individual professionals and consumers are standardising on DocuSign, with more than 50,000 new users joining the DocuSign Global Network every day. Today, that network includes more than 35 million users in 188 countries. DocuSign is used to accelerate transaction times to increase speed to results, reduce costs, and delight customers across nearly every industry – from financial services, insurance, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, communications, property management and consumer goods, to higher education and others. For more information, visit www.docusign.com or call 877.720.2040. Visit the DocuSign blog at www.docusign.com/blog and follow DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Appirio Adds Jeff Epstein to Board of Directors

Former CFO of Oracle and Technology Industry Veteran to Chair Appirio’s Audit Committee, Guide the Cloud Service Provider to its Next Phase of Growth 

San Francisco - May 9, 2013 - Appirio, a global cloud services provider, today announced the appointment of Jeff Epstein to its Board of Directors. Jeff will chair Appirio’s Audit Committee and is the company’s second independent board director. Jeff brings more than 25 years of financial expertise to Appirio, and is currently an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He serves on multiple boards, including priceline.com, Kaiser Permanente and Shutterstock.

“Jeff’s financial leadership, industry insight and deep expertise in technology and M&A will be a tremendous asset to Appirio as we look to our next phase of growth,” said Chris Barbin, CEO, Appirio. “As we continue to deliver on our long standing mission - to help companies reimagine their business with disruptive technologies - Jeff will play a critical role in ensuring that we ourselves are a high performing company.”

Jeff has experience working with both high growth and publicly-held companies, and most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Oracle. Earlier, Jeff Epstein was executive vice president and chief financial officer of DoubleClick, as it grew from 180 to more than 2,000 employees.

“Companies like Appirio, that are on leading edge of trends such as the cloud and crowdsourcing, are disrupting the traditional systems integration market,” said Jeff Epstein. “It’s an exciting time to be part of a company like Appirio that doesn’t accept the status quo. The company’s rapid growth, customer portfolio and leadership in the market is a testament to its leadership team and innovative model.”

Jeff holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

About Appirio
Appirio is a global services provider who uses crowdsourcing and cloud, social and mobile technology to help enterprises reimagine their business and become more agile. Appirio brings together technology expertise with a deep understanding of the way people work, and the nearly limitless skills of a crowdsourcing community of 70,000+ developers, to help enterprises transform relationships with their customers, partners and workforce. Appirio has worked with more than 500 enterprises, including organizations like Facebook, Intuit, Japan Post Network, L'Oreal, McGraw-Hill, NetApp, The Four Seasons, and Virgin America.  The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Appirio Continues European Growth as Cloud Adoption Picks Up in the Region

Global Professional Services Provider Grows European Business, Sees Customers Using Multiple Cloud Solutions to Transform Their Business

London, UK - May 2, 2013 - Appirio, a global cloud services provider, today announced multiple customer wins in the European market including Kaplan, Sportingbet and Wood Mackenzie. Appirio is helping these organisations, and global brands including McGraw-Hill, transition to a more agile technology infrastructure, improving core business processes using cloud platforms.

Appirio established its European presence in 2011 and has spent the last two years building a strong customer base in the region. It has seen demand for its services increase rapidly in both its existing Salesforce business, as well as within the HCM and talent management space with Workday and Cornerstone OnDemand. In particular, growth is being fuelled by customer acquisitions in the retail, finance and media sectors.

“We are starting to see increased adoption of cloud, mobile and social technologies in Europe, as organisations look for new ways to engage customers and improve businesses processes. Speed is of the essence when implementing these new platforms. Organisations want to see business impact in months rather than years so they can respond to challenges in a timely manner,” said Lori Williams, general manager, Europe at Appirio. “We are focused on helping businesses become more agile, developing cloud strategies that can be rolled out quickly to help our clients out-maneuver the competition. Agility really is becoming the currency of the new economy.”

Appirio is committed to expanding its European presence with a focus on growing its core capabilities in human capital management, customer relationship management and collaboration. To better serve its local market, Appirio recently opened a new office in London located at Stratford Place.

The company is also increasing investment in its Cloud Enablement Suite, Cloud Management and CloudSpokes crowdsourcing community.

About Appirio
Appirio is a global services provider who uses crowdsourcing and cloud, social and mobile technology to help enterprises reimagine their business and become more agile. Appirio brings together technology expertise with a deep understanding of the way people work, and the nearly limitless skills of a crowdsourcing community of 70,000+ developers, to help enterprises transform relationships with their customers, partners and workforce. Appirio has worked with more than 500 enterprises, including organizations like Facebook, Intuit, Japan Post Network, L'Oreal, McGraw-Hill, NetApp, The Four Seasons, and Virgin America.  The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic.
 
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