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Scribble eSign offers a cost-effective alternative to remote signing for BuildTopia users and their customers.
TORONTO, Nov. 30, 2022 /CNW/ — Constellation HomeBuilder Systems, North America’s largest provider of home building software solutions, today announced the launch of Scribble, a new electronic signing solution that supports eSigning of digital documents and contracts, designed specifically for homebuilders. Scribble offers builders on the BuildTopia construction management software platform a streamlined signing workflow, including multiple signers and documents, secured signing sessions and secured document storage.
“Builders are looking for cost effective and reliable e-sign alternatives that easily integrate into their existing construction management solution, while securely and efficiently collecting and managing eSignatures,” said Sean Wilhelm, vice president of Constellation HomeBuilder Systems.
“Despite homebuyers demanding a more digital homebuying experience, we’re still seeing frustration among builders who are trying to make technology decisions based on a myriad of eSign solutions that claim efficiency improvements, but in reality, lack simplicity and pricing transparency” continued Wilhelm. “Scribble delivers all the mainstream workflow automations, security and compliance features that builders are looking for, but at a more cost-effective price point.”
Scribble offers flexibility for builders to scale their operations with electronic signatures. Learn more about Scribble for eSignatures, forms, workflows, and learn about its detailed integration with BuildTopia, click here.
About Constellation HomeBuilder Systems
Constellation HomeBuilder Systems is the largest provider of software and services in the building industry. Their innovative software solutions, available as standalone or integrated systems, empower builders with information to drive business objectives and simplify the process of building homes and condos. Constellation HomeBuilder Systems is the home building software division of Constellation Software Inc., an international provider of market-leading software and services for specialized industries, which is traded publicly on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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The Neat Company, which develops bookkeeping automation and document management tools for small businesses, has upgraded it financial management platform, a Neat press release said.
The press release said the new capabilities include more mobile features, simplifying the creation and management of invoices, giving a central view all bank accounts across financial institutions, and organize expenses and transactions. They can also edit account names, add notes and keep up with vendors, customers and bookkeeping tasks.
Other updates will improve transactions reporting, documents imaging and editing, report exporting by PDF and data exporting in CSV files.
“When I was a small business owner, I saw firsthand how bookkeeping can seem like a distraction, and learned that traditional small business accounting software can feel overwhelming, while homegrown spreadsheets were both limiting and time-consuming,” explains Garrett Baird, president and CEO of The Neat Company. “Neat recognized that, too, and has condensed and clarified the bookkeeping process into an uncomplicated and easy-to-use all-in-one platform designed specifically for small businesses.”
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That money will be used to bolster the company’s workforce and debut a new corporate charge card to help out with small businesses.
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So he said the goal of Finally was to keep supporting small businesses.
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Today, nearly every company that builds applications uses open source software — and the majority of organizations use significant amounts of it.
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The global document workflow management software market is a big and growing business, reaching $8.52 billion in 2021 and estimated to grow to $55.35 billion in 2028, according to Grandview Research.
One company, airSlate, disrupted the category by focusing on the needs of individual users at small and mid-sized businesses and using the scientific method to constantly test and learn its way to product development, customer satisfaction and market share growth.
Headquartered in Boston, airSlate began life as PDFFiller in 2008, a company founded by Vadim Yasinovsky, who developed a way to create editable forms and documents from PDF files. That company struggled to grow until Yasinovsky’s friend Borya Shakhnovich became CEO and broadened the company into document workflow and digital transformation that turned the company into a fast-growth software business. This founder’s journey story is based on my interview with Shakhnovich.
airSlate Co-Founder and CEO Borya Shakhnovich.
Prior to airSlate, Shakhnovich was the founder of Orwik, a community network for scientists and institutions, and Yasinovsky was one of his investors. “I came to one of my investors who was running PDFFiller at the time. And I said, ‘Look, I have this marketing technology, why don’t you apply it To PDFFiller?’ And he said, ‘I don’t know anything about how to apply this marketing technology, why don’t you come and build it with me.’ And that’s how airSlate was really born,” says Shakhnovich.
At that time, PDFFiller was a small company with $400,000 in annual revenue. Using Shakhnovich’s technology and business savvy, the team bootstrapped PDFFiller to grow to reach 160,000 customers, 160 employees and $60 million annual revenue. After several years, Shakhnovich moved into the CEO role and the company greatly expanded its product offering and formally became airSlate in 2018.
Today the company positions itself as a global SaaS technology company that provides no-code business process automation and document management solutions to companies of all sizes. Its PDF editing, e-signature workflow, and business process automation solutions allow users to solve document workflow challenges more easily and at lower cost than other enterprise software providers, according to Shakhnovich.
The company continues to experience significant growth, increasing revenue 50% year over year, expanding its customer base and including partner collaborations with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), Microsoft, Samsung, SoftwareOne, Xerox and others. “Right now, we have over one million customers and about 1,000 employees,” says Shakhnovich.
As a result, the company has raised a total of $181.5 million in venture funding to date. Its most recent $51.5 million financing on June 16, 2022 led by G Squared, including a strategic partnership with UiPath, valued airSlate at $1.25 billion. Additional investors include Silicon Valley Bank, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, High Sage Ventures, General Catalyst, Horizon Capital and others. “We’ve run this business pretty much cashflow neutral throughout the last 10 years. So all of the money that we raised is either on the balance sheet or used for M&A,” says Shakhnovich.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Shakhnovich was an evolutionary biologist and approaches business with an evolutionary design model and attributes his success as a leader is to his academic training. “I like interdisciplinary approaches to solving complex problems whether using Physics to understand customer acquisition or using Biology to understand customer retention. Before my life in startups and online marketing, I used to teach bioinformatics at BU and do systems biology research at Harvard,” says Shakhnovich.
Shakhnovich grew up in Russia up until the age of eleven. His family moved to the U.S. in 1990 when his father became a professor of chemistry at Harvard. Shakhnovich followed in his father’s footstep and pursued an academic career. He attended the University of Illinois, in Urbana Champaign. “I studied computational biophysics, so nothing that’s even remotely related to business,” says Shakhnovich. After graduating, he went on to earn his PhD at Boston University in bioinformatics, which is the statistical analysis of biological systems, including genes, proteins and evolution. He then became a professor of Bioinformatics at Boston University in 2004 and soon thereafter moved over to Harvard in 2006 to lead a Systems Biology group there.
In 2008, right before the beginning of the financial crisis, he left Harvard to start his own business. “I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. I always wanted to create my own business. And in a lot of ways, being an academic is actually like running your own very small business,” says Shakhnovich.
He founded Orwik a professional network for researchers that was meant to solve the problem of transparency in the academic process, but after four years trying to make it work, the business never took off. “I made all of the mistakes that I think beginning entrepreneurs make. I started building a company for myself instead of for customers and built a product without testing it in the marketplace,” says Shakhnovich. He apparently learned his lesson well with the creation and exponential growth of airSlate.
As for the future? “Over the next five to ten years, we would like to train a million people on using our technology to increase their efficiency and value to their own business. We want to help an employee that was earning $40,000 to $50,000 and turn them into an employee that is critical to the business, earning $100,000 to $120,000. And that’s the mission of the company overall,” concludes Shakhnovich.