Item 1. Business
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Overview
Docusign solutions bring agreements to life, accelerating and simplifying the process of doing business. Docusign’s core offerings — our intelligent agreement management (“IAM”) platform, the world’s leading eSignature solution, and contract lifecycle management (“CLM”) solution — allow organizations to boost productivity, accelerate contract review cycles, and transform agreement data into insights and actions, while providing a better customer experience. Docusign’s IAM platform automates agreement workflows, uncovers actionable insights, and leverages AI capabilities, enabling organizations to create, commit, and manage agreements, from virtually anywhere in the world, securely. As of January 31, 2025, nearly 1.7 million customers and more than a billion users worldwide utilize Docusign to accelerate and simplify the process of doing business.
We offer subscriptions to our products to businesses at all scales, from global enterprises down to very small businesses (“VSBs”). We offer more than 1,000 active partner integrations with the applications that many of our customers already use so that they can create, commit, and manage agreements directly within these applications. We have a diverse customer base spanning across virtually all industries and around the world with no significant customer concentration. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenue in any of the periods presented.
We focused initially on selling our products to commercial businesses and VSBs and later expanded our focus to target enterprise customers. As of January 31, 2025, we had a total of nearly 1.7 million customers, including over 260,000 enterprise and commercial customers, compared to over 1.5 million customers and approximately 242,000 enterprise and commercial customers as of January 31, 2024. We define a customer as a separate and distinct buying entity, such as a company, an educational or government institution, or a distinct business unit of a large company that has an active contract to access our products. The number of our customers with greater than $300,000 in annualized contract value was 1,131 as of January 31, 2025, compared to 1,060 as of January 31, 2024. Each of our customer types has a different purchasing pattern. VSBs typically become customers by quickly utilizing our digital and self-serve channels and generate smaller average contract values, while commercial and enterprise customers typically involve longer sales cycles, larger contract values, and greater expansion opportunities for us.
We generate substantially all our revenue from sales of subscriptions, which accounted for 97% of our revenue in each of the years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024. Our subscription fees are primarily comprised of fees from customers using our products and access to customer support. Subscriptions generally range from one to three years, and substantially all our multi-year customers pay in annual installments, one year in advance.
We also generate revenue from professional and other non-subscription services, which consist primarily of fees associated with providing new customers with deployment and integration services. Other revenue includes amounts derived from sales of on-premises solutions. Professional services and other revenue accounted for the remainder of total revenue in each of the years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024.
Historically, we offered access to most of our products on a subscription basis with prices based on the functionality and the quantity of Envelopes required by our customers. Similar to the physical envelopes historically used to mail paper documents, an Envelope is a digital container used to send one or more documents for signature or approval to one or more recipients. Our customers have the flexibility to put a large number of documents in an Envelope. For several use cases, such as buying a home, multiple Envelopes are used over the course of the process. To drive customer reach and adoption, we also offer certain limited-time or feature-constrained versions of our eSignature solution for free.
In the second quarter of fiscal 2025, we began offering our IAM platform on a user-based subscription basis in specific customer segments and geographies, through our direct sales channel. Our IAM subscription offerings have multiple pricing tiers as well as specialized packages for specific user personas, end markets, and departments. While IAM platform subscriptions include our core products and solutions, including eSignature, we expect standalone eSignature to continue to represent the majority of our revenue for the foreseeable future as we continue to roll out IAM across additional segments and geographies.
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Our Growth and Investment Strategy
We believe that our market opportunity is large, and we plan to invest to support long-term growth based on the three pillars of our long-term strategy:
Accelerating Product Innovation
The first pillar is to accelerate product innovation through research and development investments, helping our IAM platform address our customers’ agreement management needs comprehensively. We aim to deliver category-leading value in the agreement management market while evolving into a platform company.
◦ IAM: In April 2024, we announced the launch of the IAM platform at our annual Momentum customer conference. We rapidly innovated the platform from ideation to launch, leveraging customer feedback. As a platform, IAM includes our industry-leading eSignature product as a core capability. Other capabilities include Navigator, our AI-powered agreement repository that helps customers manage and identify insights from their agreements, and Maestro, our no-code workflow builder that helps customers accelerate agreement processes.
◦ Developer Ecosystem: Part of our evolution into a platform company requires supporting a dynamic community of developers and partners to create new solutions that extend the capabilities of our IAM platform. In November 2024, we hosted Docusign Discover, our first-ever developer-focused conference, and launched Docusign for Developers, giving our partners tools to build apps powered by the IAM platform. Partners can share their apps in the Docusign App Center, adding to the over 1,000 active partner integrations with Docusign products.
◦ eSignature and CLM: With a renewed focus on product innovation, our two largest existing products by revenue have seen improved innovation delivery, as a result of our investment in the IAM platform, which bring more AI-powered capabilities across the greater Docusign product portfolio.
◦ Core Value Propositions: Docusign is building IAM on the foundation created by our existing customer value propositions and benefits, including eSignature user simplicity, which has generated over 750,000 Apple App Store ratings with an average score of 4.9 out of 5; global footprint and adoption by customers in many jurisdictions that require different legal requirements to complete valid agreements; highly auditable agreements and signatures; stringent security certification standards; and scaled infrastructure that enables delivery of eSignature at over 99.9% availability worldwide.
Strengthening Our Omnichannel Go-To-Market
The second growth pillar focuses on improving our omnichannel go-to-market (“GTM”) capabilities to better meet the evolving needs of our customers. By strengthening our direct sales, partner, and self-service routes to market, we aim to simultaneously accelerate our ability to scale while reducing our customer acquisition and management costs. This refined approach enables us to reach new customers, more flexibly respond to customer needs, and fuel efficient growth.
◦ Direct Sales : Docusign has placed a growing emphasis on customer retention and enhancing customer relationships with its direct sales team. With the launch of IAM, we are focused on delivering greater value to customers through a complete end-to-end agreement management system of record. This requires strengthening our direct sales force’s ability to provide greater consultation and solution education to our customers. We believe the result will be broader IAM deployments across a greater number of use cases vs. our historic eSignature relationships with customers.
◦ Third-Party Channel Partners : In addition, we are increasing our efforts to drive broader customer engagement through third-party channel partners to support the delivery of Docusign’s products, in particular IAM. Within our GTM strategy evolution, we are investing in deeper partner engagement across strategic technology partners like Microsoft, SAP, and Salesforce with whom we have both product integrations and co-selling relationships. We also continue to invest in greater independent software vendor (“ISV”) and system integrator (“SI”) relationships. These efforts are supported by the recent launch of our third-party ecosystem called Docusign for Developers which includes software development kits (“SDKs”) and application programming interfaces (“APIs”) to launch apps on IAM, and dedicated engagement with partners at our global series of Momentum customer events.
◦ Digital E-commerce Sales & Self-Service : We continue to invest in product-led growth and self-service capabilities as cornerstones of our GTM strategy. In fiscal 2025, digital revenue grew faster than overall revenue, demonstrating strong results from our focus on e-commerce capabilities and making it easier for customers to discover, try, and buy from Docusign. We will continue working to remove friction and deliver delight across every step of the digital customer journey to make our experiences seamless and intuitive.
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Increasing Operational and Financial Efficiency
Finally, our third growth pillar is to enhance operational and financial efficiency to scale effectively and sustainably. This includes prioritizing investments in infrastructure and technology that best serve our diverse customer base, including our migration to cloud-based infrastructure. Additionally, we continue to evaluate strategic acquisitions and partnerships that align with our growth objectives and expand our product offerings.
We believe these combined efforts will strengthen our ability to retain and grow within our existing customer base, while also attracting new customers.
Increasing International Revenue
Our international revenue represented 28%, 26% and 25% of our total revenue in each of the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023.
We started our international selling efforts in English-speaking common law countries, such as Canada, the UK and Australia, where we were able to leverage our core technologies due to similar approaches to electronic signature in these jurisdictions and the U.S. We have since made significant investments to be able to offer our products in select civil law countries. For example, in Europe, we offer Standards-Based Signature (“SBS”) technology tailored for the European Union’s (“EU”) electronic Identification, Authentication, and Trust Services (“eIDAS”) regulations. SBS supports signatures that involve digital certificates, including those specified in the EU’s eIDAS regulations for advanced and qualified electronic signatures.
We believe there is a substantial opportunity for us to increase our international customer base by leveraging and expanding investments in our technology, direct sales force and strategic partnerships around the world, as well as helping existing U.S.-based customers manage agreements across their international businesses. We have experienced increased demand across multiple regions and are focusing our sales and marketing resources to capitalize on the potential growth of these markets. Additionally, we expect to continue to develop and enhance our strategic partnerships in key international markets as we grow internationally.
Our Products
Docusign enables businesses to address each aspect of the agreement process with our product offerings, which are tailored for each step in the agreement lifecycle and, in some cases, for particular market segments, industries or geographic regions. We focus on meeting customer needs by providing them a variety of products and solutions to address their needs.
Key products include:
• IAM Apps built on our AI-powered IAM platform, enabling customers to connect and optimize every step of the agreement management process. Three versions of these Apps (Core, Sales and CX) launched in Spring of 2024, and contain some combination of our key platform capabilities, in particular: our industry-leading eSignature product; Navigator, which enables customers to create a unified repository of all agreements, including those saved in third-party applications, and uncover actionable insights and contract details through AI; Maestro, which enables customers to easily build and deploy no-code customized workflows to automate and accelerate agreement processes; and Docusign App Center, which allows customers to customize and extend agreement processes with third-party applications.
• eSignature enables sending and signing of agreements on a wide variety of devices, from virtually anywhere in the world, securely. We offer multiple editions and add-ons that can be combined to fit the needs of different organizational sizes, industries and regions.
• CLM orchestrates workflows across the entire agreement process. It provides organizations the flexibility to automate complex processes for generating, negotiating, and storing agreements, as well as the ability to leverage AI-powered contract analytics to discover risks and opportunities hidden within agreements. We offer multiple editions of CLM, each tailored to meet the needs of customers with different organizational sizes and contracting complexity.
• Add-on Products, which are additional capabilities to help better streamline the agreement process:
◦ Payments to collect payments along with signed agreements;
◦ Identity and SBS for enhanced signer-identification and signatures with digital certification;
◦ Notary for remote online notarization;
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◦ Web Forms & Document Generation for accelerated contract drafting and building customized agreements;
◦ Monitor for advanced analytics; and
◦ Gen for Salesforce for automated agreement generation within Salesforce.
Additionally, we believe customers benefit from these core value propositions:
• Doing business faster. By replacing manual, paper-driven processes with automated digital workflows, Docusign can substantially reduce the time and labor necessary to complete agreements. In fiscal 2025, 76% of all transactions using eSignature were completed in less than 24 hours and 40% within 15 minutes. Our eSignature product also saves customers time by allowing users to review and sign agreements quickly from mobile devices. Our other products also contribute to faster turnaround times, such as less time spent creating new agreements or less time spent finding completed agreements. By streamlining workflows, Docusign enables businesses to save valuable time and resources, resulting in increased productivity and cost savings.
• Better customer and employee experience. Organizations that use Docusign services internally and externally can deliver a simpler, more streamlined experience for their own customers and employees. For example, eSignature replaces the hassle and costs of faxing, printing, scanning, emailing, and other manual activities with a few clicks or taps—which can be done from practically anywhere, at any time. Our CLM software consolidates and automates every step of the agreement process from generation through negotiation, signature, ongoing management and storage.
• Tailored industry-specific offerings. Industry-specific Docusign offerings include: Real Estate for eSignature, which allows brokers, agents and customers to manage the entire real estate transaction digitally; U.S. Federal, State and Local Government through a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (“FedRAMP”) Impact Level Moderate environment for eSignature and CLM products, and dedicated data centers and system boundaries that offer heightened security; and Health and Life Sciences with eSignature modules enabling compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.
• Reduced risk. Organizations that rely on manual, paper-based agreement processes may be prone to error and difficult to audit. Using Docusign, organizations can centralize, standardize, and automate agreement workflows—so employees have an easy way to use approved processes and templates, with audit trails generated automatically. Also, AI technologies can help employees identify risks within large sets of existing agreements that would otherwise be impractical for manual review. Finally, fewer manual interactions during an agreement’s lifecycle means fewer opportunities for mishandling or improper access.
• Minimized environmental impact. Environmental sustainability has been an important part of Docusign’s mission from the start. By digitizing agreements, we help reduce environmental impacts while supporting businesses in their efficiency and sustainability goals. We believe that Docusign has an important role in creating a sustainable future and we are committed to minimizing our impacts on the planet. Since 2022, we have matched 100% of our energy use with renewable energy credits. In 2024, we set Science-Based Targets (“SBTs”), including a commitment to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. Through partnerships with nonprofits such as Forest Stewardship Council and Wildlife Conservation Society, we’re helping to drive meaningful change for a sustainable future.
Our Technology, Infrastructure and Operations
Our technology and product efforts are focused on improving and enhancing the features, functionality, performance, availability and security of our product offerings. We focus on innovation in global security and privacy management, high availability, enterprise-class manageability, extensible identity proofing, digital transaction processing and integration into companies' systems and workflows. This infrastructure supports over one billion people and nearly 1.7 million customers, including some of the world’s largest companies, and underpins our product offerings.
Our operations are based on stringent global industry security standards and we maintain compliance with ISO27K, PCI, and SSAE 18 standards. For example, our eSignature and CLM products are FedRAMP-authorized, which means they operate in an environment that meets 325 National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) Special Publication 800-53 (NIST 800-53) security and privacy controls. In addition, we offer a range of options for authenticating users and proving their identities and have a robust digital transaction processing platform that captures signatures and tags. Docusign is a Trust Service Provider (“TSP”) in the EU. As a TSP, Docusign France provides qualified electronic signatures, qualified time stamps, advanced electronic signatures, and advanced seals recognized by all EU member states. Docusign France is listed as a qualified TSP in the Trusted List managed by the French IT Security Agency, ANSSI.
Our flagship eSignature product is designed as an always-on, geographically redundant and distributed cloud solution that primarily runs in SSAE 18 audited data centers in the U.S. and EU. Recognizing that our customers often depend
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on Docusign for their day-to-day operations, we have provided best-in-class availability, with over 99.9% eSignature availability to our customers and users during the year ended January 31, 2025. We operate co-location data centers in several locations and we also leverage public cloud infrastructure for an increasing number of services, as we continue to migrate our North American and European production services from our data center hosting facilities to Microsoft Azure Cloud, a third-party cloud provider. We believe these efforts will help better support our customers with respect to the scale, security, and availability needs of our mobile, web, and cloud-native applications. Companies can also integrate Docusign into their systems and workflows using one of more than 1,000 active partner integrations.
Research and Development
Since inception, we have invested in research and development (“R&D”) to innovate our product offerings, including the world’s leading electronic signature solution. Our product and engineering team is responsible for the design, development, testing and certification of our products.
Our Customers
As of January 31, 2025, we had a global base of nearly 1.7 million customers. These customers span the entire business spectrum, from Fortune 500 enterprises and government institutions to innovative startups and individual end users. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of our revenues in fiscal 2025. We believe the breadth and depth of Docusign’s customer base across industry verticals, company sizes, and geographies validates the ubiquitous value Docusign creates for customers in agreement management, and creates business model strength through customer diversity.
Sales, Marketing and Customer Success
Our sales and marketing teams are focused on driving adoption and expanded use of Docusign’s products by customers and prospects across the globe. We benefit greatly from our strong brand recognition given our association with positive signing moments in people’s lives—such as accepting a job or buying a house—which can influence the adoption of our solutions at their companies. Given that our offerings are designed to solve the needs of organizations of all sizes and across all industries and geographies, we sell to customer bases ranging from global enterprises to sole proprietors. Our go-to-market strategy leverages our direct sales force, digital motions, and partnerships to sell to enterprises and commercial businesses, and our digital self-service channel to sell primarily to VSBs, which is the most cost-effective way to reach our smallest customers. We also employ tailored go-to-market strategies by industry verticals. We focus on bringing value to every function inside those verticals.
Sales
Our go-to-market model involves a combination of direct sales, partner-assisted sales, and digital self-service purchasing:
Direct Sales: We sell subscriptions primarily through our direct sales force across our field offices around the world. Our account executives and account managers focus on new and existing enterprise and commercial customers. Our direct sales team focuses on companies looking to streamline front office operations (e.g., sales, services or marketing) and back office operations (e.g., human resources, procurement, finance, or legal). By expanding within an organization, we believe we can generate large amounts of incremental revenue through the addition of new users and Envelopes, plan upgrades, expansions, and additional offerings to other functions or business units.
Partner-assisted Sales :
▪ Global partners : We have partnerships with some of the world’s foremost technology providers including Google, Microsoft, Workday, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow—that help us sell into a far greater number of accounts than we could do alone. These partnerships are multi-dimensional and involve joint investments, technology integrations, co-marketing agreements, membership in partner programs, and go-to-market commitments.
▪ Systems integrators : We have strong partnerships with a number of global and regional systems integrators. These relationships are important given that those firms act as strategic technology advisors to many large customers and prospects. We intend to invest further in collaborating with these partners, especially those that are creating Docusign specific practices.
▪ ISVs : We partner with a host of leading ISVs—including our strategic partners above as well as vertical oriented partners to help bring the power of Docusign to customers around the world.
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▪ Distributors and resellers : As part of our evolving go-to-market strategy, we have distribution partnerships with global industry leaders like Ingram Micro enabling us to reach tens of thousands of resellers. We also have partnerships with solution providers such as Deutsche Telekom and others that have expertise in specific vertical and regional markets, enabling us to add further value directly to those markets.
Digital E-commerce Sales: Through a strong presence that allows us to scale with low acquisition costs to individual users and small businesses around the world, we drive free 30-day trial and self-service purchase directly on our website, in our mobile applications and through use of our product itself. Our digital e-commerce sales engine provides direct access to account plans with functionality to suit the needs of small businesses, sole proprietors, and individuals. For the year ended January 31, 2025, digital sales accounted for 14% of our total revenue. We anticipate this contribution will increase over time.
Marketing
To support the sales team in reaching our broad range of potential customers, our integrated marketing programs address the specific needs of our different market segments. These programs create qualified sales opportunities and raise awareness of our leadership position in the global electronic signature and agreement-technology spaces.
We employ a wide range of marketing channels to generate demand and engage customers throughout the world. This includes account-based marketing aimed at our high-value customers, industry-specific marketing by our industry vertical teams, a global series of “Momentum” conferences for customers and partners and our first-ever “Docusign Discover” conference for third-party developers. These include broader digital demand generation campaigns; corporate communications and analyst relations; first-party events, such as our annual set of roadshows gathering customers, prospects, developers and partners; participation in third-party events, such as Salesforce’s Dreamforce; comprehensive customer evidence programs; developer relations programs; cooperative marketing with strategic partners; and a comprehensive webinar series, among many other things.
Customer Success & Customer Support
We believe that our Customer Success and Customer Support efforts are critical to retaining and expanding our customer base.
Customer Success helps onboard customers by designing, integrating, training, and deploying solutions that meet their needs. Our solutions engineers and technical experts can also design tailored solutions to help customers improve workflow and automate business processes. Once customers are onboarded, Customer Success continues to guide them through their Docusign journeys using motions such as health checks, account planning and renewal management.
Customer Support also plays an important role in helping our customers by being available via telephone, email or the web to help answer general and technical questions.
Both Customer Success and Customer Support offer in-depth expertise, proven best practices, and repeatable delivery methodologies designed to enhance our customers’ overall Docusign experience and ensure they achieve successful outcomes using our products.
Human Capital Management
At Docusign, we foster a culture that celebrates and harnesses the strength of our people, recognizing that every individual brings unique perspectives and experiences to the table. Our mission is to redefine how the world comes together and agrees. We have six core values:
• Trust: We are honest, ethical, and transparent with each other, our customers, and our partners. We operate with integrity, empathy, and respect;
• Customer Focus: We are customer-centric, everything we do begins and ends with creating seamless experiences that drive customer value;
• Simplicity: We aspire to delight our customers and eliminate complexity. We are easy to work with and eliminate friction;
• Innovation: We foster a culture of creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement as we pioneer the way the world agrees;
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• Unity: We are a global team but share common values. We debate and commit to executing decisions with agility and speed, working together in service of our shared mission;
• Sustainability: We use technology and drive awareness that can make the world healthier and more sustainable.
We are committed to delivering against these values for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. We have several initiatives and strategies in place that reflect this commitment to our core values and to our employees.
We are a global organization with an increasingly international footprint. As we continue to grow in new markets, we anticipate continuing to recruit in new geographies. As of January 31, 2025, we had 6,838 employees, of which approximately 63% were based in the U.S. and the remainder in international locations. None of our U.S. employees are represented by a labor union with respect to their employment with us. Employees in some other countries are represented by workers' councils or participate in collective bargaining arrangements at the national and/or industry level. We have not experienced any work stoppages. We consider our relations with our employees to be positive, and we measure employee satisfaction through bi-annual engagement surveys.
Talent and Career Development
We empower our people to constantly learn, develop, and contribute to their full potential. We value and embrace ideas, encouraging innovation and creativity at every level, while staying true to our mission and core values to drive positive change in everything we do. We offer a number of resources to eligible employees to help engage and develop our employees including career development coursework, frameworks and education assistance.
Docusign is recognized as a company where employees can develop their careers. During fiscal 2025, we were recognized as the #1 Most Trustworthy software and telecommunications Company in America 2024.
Compensation and Benefits Programs
Our compensation programs are designed to recruit, reward and retain talented individuals who possess the skills necessary to support our business, contribute to our strategic goals and create long-term value for our stockholders. We aim to provide employees with competitive compensation packages that include base salary, bonus or commission plan and equity awards tied to the value of our stock. We also provide a range of health, savings, retirement, time-off and wellness benefits for our employees, which vary based on local regulations and norms.
Engagement with our Communities
Docusign is dedicated to corporate responsibility and putting our values into action. We believe that this engagement with our communities is an important aspect of our company culture and brings long-term value to our stockholders, while making the world a better place. With Docusign.org, we are committed to harnessing the power of Docusign's people, products, and profits to make a difference in the global communities where our employees and customers live and work. This work is brought to life through our Docusign Foundation, Docusign Impact and Docusign for Nonprofit programs.
The Docusign Foundation is focused on environmental programs, ecosystem protection and local impact through grant funding. To date, we have mobilized $4 million in grants to nonprofits.
We believe in promoting a culture of giving back and community support throughout our organization. Through our Docusign Impact program, we encourage our employees to take action in their own communities by volunteering. We are proud to support their efforts by providing up to 24 hours of paid time off a year for volunteering. To date, our employees have volunteered more than 122,000 hours collectively, including at organizations promoting healthier forests, echoing our company-wide commitment to environmental programs. Additionally, we match funds given by our employees to qualifying nonprofits. To date, we have mobilized $22 million in employee donations and company match, supporting approximately 9,500 organizations.
Through our Docusign for Nonprofits program, we aim to empower organizations with the agreement platform needed to achieve their missions. As a company, we ensure that thousands of charitable organizations have the opportunity to use our products at a discount every year.
Our Competition
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Our primary global competitor for eSignature is currently Adobe, which offers an electronic signature solution known as Adobe Acrobat Sign as well as other global software companies that have or may elect to include an electronic signature capability in their products. We also face competition from a select number of vendors that focus on specific industries, geographies, or product areas such as contract lifecycle management and advanced contract analytics. We believe Intelligent Agreement Management is a new software category without incumbent competitors, although elements of our IAM platform may compete with existing providers of contract lifecycle management, contract analytics workflow management, identity verification and other software solutions.
We believe the principal factors that drive competition between vendors in the future will include:
• breadth and depth of innovative product functionality (including proprietary product differentiators and AI application innovation);
• breadth and depth of capability to holistically manage end-to-end agreement workflows in a lightweight, modern software user experience;
• ease of use and deployment;
• level of customer satisfaction;
• brand awareness and reputation;
• breadth and depth of integrations with the applications and systems customers already use;
• availability and reliability;
• security;
• unit costs and total cost of ownership; and
• ability to address legal, regulatory, and cultural matters associated with e-signature across jurisdictions.
We believe that we generally compete favorably on the basis of the factors listed above.
Intellectual Property
We own and develop significant intellectual property (“IP”) and related IP rights globally, with a focus on key markets such as the United States, European Union, and Asia-Pacific. This global strategy ensures that our products and services are protected and competitive in major international markets. Our IP portfolio includes patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, and other rights. We actively seek to protect our global IP rights and to deter unauthorized use of our IP and other assets. We have obtained patents in the U.S. and other countries. As we expand our product offerings into new areas, we also seek to extend our patent coverage to such products. In addition to developing patents based on our own R&D efforts, we may purchase or license patents from third parties.
The software that we embed within our products, as well as software that we distribute, also is entitled to copyright and other IP protection. We also protect details about our processes, products, and strategies as trade secrets, keeping confidential the information that we believe provides us with a competitive advantage.
In addition, we seek to protect our IP rights by requiring our employees, independent contractors, and business partners involved in development of IP on our behalf to enter into agreements acknowledging that all works or other IP generated or conceived by them on our behalf are our property, and assigning to us any rights, including IP rights, that they may claim or otherwise have in those works or property, to the extent allowable under applicable law.
Because of the fast pace of innovation and product development, our products may become obsolete before the patents related to them expire, and in some cases may become obsolete before the patents are granted. Efforts to protect our IP can be difficult, particularly in countries that provide less protection to IP rights and in the absence of harmonized international IP standards. Competitors and others may already have IP rights covering similar products. There is no assurance that we will be able to obtain IP rights covering our own products, or that we will be able to obtain IP licenses from other companies on favorable terms or at all. For a discussion of IP-related risks, see "Risk Factors".
Corporate Information
We were incorporated as Docusign, Inc. in Washington in April 2003. We merged with and into Docusign, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in March 2015. Our website address is www.Docusign.com. The information contained in, or accessible through, our website or any other websites referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are not incorporated into this filing. Further, our references to website addresses are only as inactive textual references.
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Available Information
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