Okta + DocuSign Provide Secure Transactions

DocuSign makes transactions easier—no paper, no waiting around, no worry about legal hassles.

The Situation

In the move to the cloud, DocuSign faced common problems. Employees struggled to keep URLs and passwords straight. IT worried about the security risks inherent in employee-managed cloud accounts.

In addition, Dinsdale says, company leaders wanted to “stitch our SaaS products together to have one source of truth.” DocuSign’s company philosophy is “automate everything that can be automated,” says Dinsdale. “It’s a competitive advantage to have better systems, and to be able to have more relevant, timely information to accelerate your business.” Beyond the security and productivity challenges, the lack of a centralized identity management system simply made for a clunky way of doing business.

The Solution

Okta approached DocuSign’s requirements with an “all-in” attitude, says Dinsdale, and the company deployed Okta Single Sign-On in December 2011. Everyone loved having one place to access all their SaaS applications.

Over time, DocuSign brought on more Okta functionality and today, the company has significantly reduced password-reset requests. DocuSign uses two-factor authentication to strengthen security, and Okta Mobile is becoming increasingly important. It goes back to that streamlined way of doing business: “We expect to be connected anywhere we are: on a plane, in a car, or at home,” says Dinsdale. “It has to be seamless.”

The ROI of DocuSign’s Okta Investment

Annual IT savings:

$45k per year. Okta Single Sign-On significantly reduces the number of help desk ticket requests for password resets and lost URLs.

Annual productivity increase:

More than $100k. Today, DocuSign employees spend less time trying to access applications and more time being productive. The company can adopt new, productivity-enhancing applications more quickly, and people can work on whatever device they happen to have at the time, wherever they happen to be.

Annual security savings:

More than $60k. IT managers at DocuSign stress less about the risk of a security breach now that the company has two-factor authentication in place.

DocuSign is realizing an ROI of more than 325% with Okta’s Enterprise Edition. The payback period on this investment was less than one month.

About DocuSign

DocuSign, The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management™ (DTM), empowers anyone to transact anything, anytime, anywhere, on any device. Securely. Global enterprises, business departments, individual professionals, and consumers have standardized on DocuSign for DTM, with more than 40,000 new users joining the DocuSign Global Network every day. Today, that network includes more than 40 million users in 188 countries.