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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DocuSign

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ADocuSign supports transactions with document sharing and electronic signature, as well as automated and guided data collection and entry, record updating across disparate systems and payment collection upon agreement, as well as analytics and reporting.

    $15

    per month

    Tungsten PaperPort

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ATungsten PaperPort (formerly from Kofax and Nuance) is a document management software offering. It includes features such as desktop document management solution and allows you to manage and organize your documents in one solution.

    $99

    one-time fee per license

    Pricing
    DocuSignTungsten PaperPort
    Editions & Modules
    Personal
    $15
    per month
    Real Starter
    $15
    per month
    DocuSign for Realtors
    $35
    per month
    Standard
    $40
    per month
    Business Pro
    $60
    per month
    Advanced Solutions
    Custom Pricing
    PaperPort Standard
    $99
    one-time fee per license
    PaperPort Professional
    $199
    one-time fee per license
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DocuSignTungsten PaperPort
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPerpetual license products, there are no subscription or maintenance fees. Buy once, own forever.
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    Community Pulse
    DocuSignTungsten PaperPort
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    DocuSign
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    84%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
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    78%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    67 Answers
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    DocuSignTungsten PaperPort
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (161 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (46 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    DocuSignTungsten PaperPort
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DocuSign
    This product is well suited in the use case that I provided before: when it comes to onboarding employees and providing a clear channel for decision making for human resources, this is an excellent tool to accomplish that. I would say the weak points is when you have back and forth communication with users that it might seem a little redundant to have that back and forth communication in that scenario.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    Kofax PaperPort is great for any office that has paper documents - seriously! We have set up multiple businesses to use Kofax PaperPort to cut down their storage of paper receipts, invoices, documents, etc by nearly 90%! Their office is much better organized and they have the ability to edit PDF Documents for a lot cheaper than buying Adobe Acrobat.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    DocuSign
    • Ease of sending the same document out to multiple recipients, at multiple locations, for multiple signatures
    • Quick turnaround - once the recipient signs the document, we receive notification and the document back immediately
    • Can resend, alter, change, and/or add to the email and/or document that is sent out very easily
    • The recipient can save the document after signing, so they too have their own electronic copy for their records
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    • With Kofax PaperPort, documents can be merged, pages can be extracted from multiple documents and combined to make a new PDF document. It is an important feature as one needs to do it very often and more ubiquitous pdf readers like Adobe Acrobat Reader DC lacks functionalities like these.
    • Kofax PaperPort scans the documents and using it's OCR, converts these scans to searchable PDF documents so that these documents can be searched based on the text content in them.
    • Functionality to convert other formats to PDF and PDF to other formats. This is important as many times , we need to upload certain documents only in a specific format and conversion is required to and from PDF format.
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    Cons
    DocuSign
    • Tracking, particularly when collecting signatures through connected applications, such as an ATS, is not always clean or easily traceable.
    • Formatting documents to handle electronic signature types (signatures, initials, etc.) is not always easy, and highly dependent on the partner's technology.
    • It is not convenient to have to use DocuSign as a stand alone product if the signatures are required for 3rd party applications. It definitely excels on its own, but the scope of that usage, at least for us, is slim.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    • It should have a back button, so if you go from one folder to the next, it would be simple to get back to the first folder.
    • When you combine two PDFs, it should retain the title of the one that's on top.
    • The send to bar should be easier to change.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DocuSign
    I can't imagine doing business without DocuSign now. I would never want to go back to the way we used to do things. The "new way" is "the way" is "the right way." We can honestly be proud of a "one right way" process and not have to suffer through "5 ways for 5 days."
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    PaperPort has a few quirks, but it is the only program of its kind that actually does what it claims to do. The power of it is so much more than they claim especially when it comes to trying to achieve a truly paperless office. With PDF editing built-in, it also saves considerable investment in other PDF editing programs.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    DocuSign
    Generally user-friendly once you have command of the basics, but also has a lot of nuances that can make it difficult to train others on. DocuSign University is a helpful tool, but understandably a lot of content to get through to become a well-versed user. A lot of different functionalities but only a few I use on a weekly basis.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    For us, it's only focusing processes that we're already doing... creating folders, placing scanned files into those folders, then searching for and opening up those files later, as needed. It just helps us view everything in one place - very convenient. Further, being able to drag non-native files to their corresponding source app for editing (Word, Excel, etc) is pretty nice.
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    Reliability and Availability
    DocuSign
    It does not go down. I have had zero issues with DocuSign, approaching 4 years.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
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    Performance
    DocuSign
    Everything loads quickly. Reports are generated in a reasonable time. No noticeable difference in integrated software processing speeds.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
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    Support Rating
    DocuSign
    I'd give them a 10, but there has been 1 or 2 small cases that seemed to fall to the wayside, but I was able to call them up and get them resolved. We were having a bad implementation night (after midnight) and we needed assistance from Docusign. They were able to get an engineer to help us in the early morning hours
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
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    Online Training
    DocuSign
    Docusign is super easy to use, and apart from a few administration details, there was really nothing to train on. Post implementation, there were issues with configuration of auto-filled documents with the integrating 3rd party. That training required some time, because the DocuSign expert took the time to walk me through the 3rd party's configuration (how often does that happen?) so I could see how DocuSign should be best used to overcome weaknesses in the 3rd party platform. 10/10 expert care.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    DocuSign
    Until you get the hang of it, I recommend doing several internal tests before sending a document to a client. As I mentioned earlier, you have to go through a bit of trial and error at first to verify that the workflow works as expected.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
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    Alternatives Considered
    DocuSign
    There has never been anything that we could really compare to Docusign. We have tried sending documents in a PDF version, but that was not nearly as efficient. DocuSign saves your signature in the system and uses that as it goes through your documents.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    I was ecstatic to see someone moving PaperPort away from Nuance (Those in my circle of friends refer to them as Nuisance). The lack of customer involvement by Nuance made finding answers to things that sometimes irritate a user to being downright frustrating. Maybe the purchase of Nuance by Microsoft will allow the company to focus more on the customer.
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    Scalability
    DocuSign
    In my years of using DocuSign, I have never had an outage. I haven't even encountered a bug.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
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    Return on Investment
    DocuSign
    • Less paper use, faster signature times, less time standing at the printer/scanner to send documents to yourself
    • Security over your signature! Security over your company's signature and authorization to approve projects, cash flow etc
    • Love audit trails and the seamless tracking of the status of the document
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    • Simple focus on organization of files
    • Efficient later, when searching for files
    • Convenient throughout the office, as we're all accessing a shared data store
    Incentivized
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