{"id":2360,"date":"2017-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news?p=2360&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=2360"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:20","slug":"e-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/11\/e-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"E-signature service comes to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4145\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MBeta-SignNow-informal-e1499783942505.png\" alt=\"&quot; '\" width=\"700\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The university recently signed an enterprise services agreement with Barracuda Networks for a new e-signature service called U-M SignNow. The agreement covers the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses, and Michigan Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe first service pilot has begun already,\u201d says Bob Sabourin, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U-M SignNow project lead. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enrolled participants include the Alumni Association, Athletics, College of Engineering, Conference and Event Services, Michigan Medicine, Shared Services Center, and U-M Flint.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U-M SignNow is a cloud-based service that allows users to prepare, send, sign, and return documents from any device. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly 50 users involving 5,000 document transactions are expected to use the service during the initial pilot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Sabourin, the second pilot\u2014beginning this fall\u2014will see an increased scale of the service, encompassing more units, departments, and users. The plan is to fine-tune compliance with accessibility standards as well as integration with document workflows and content management systems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The addition of 150 new users during pilot two will bring total participation to 200 users, representing 40,000 or more document transactions expected annually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDuring the pilot phases of U-M SignNow, the project team will limit communications about service availability to key business partners and IT community members,\u201d says Sabourin. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The service will carry the MBeta brand, which is the recommended university brand that services in pilot now use. The goal is to do universi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ty-wide communications with the full brand in early 2018, once both pilot phases have been successfully executed and the service is operating at full capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants and those interested in learning more can visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/its.umich.edu\/projects\/e-signature\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">project website<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for service, registration, support, and training information. Questions the site does not answer should be sent to the U-M SignNow project team at eSignHelp@umich.edu or Bob Sabourin at rsabes@umich.edu. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The university recently signed an enterprise services agreement with Barracuda Networks for a new e-signature service called U-M SignNow. The agreement covers the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses, and Michigan Medicine. \u201cThe first service pilot has begun already,\u201d says Bob Sabourin, U-M SignNow project lead. \u201cEnrolled participants include the Alumni Association, Athletics, College of Engineering, Conference and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/11\/e-signature\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1498608000","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Announce new project","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"150","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[311,312],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-e-signature","tag-signnow"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s.jpg",450,347,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s-125x96.jpg",125,96,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s-259x200.jpg",259,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s.jpg",450,347,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s.jpg",450,347,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s.jpg",450,347,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s.jpg",450,347,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s-450x300.jpg",450,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s.jpg",450,347,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/49398198_s.jpg",324,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Dana Fair, ITS Marketing &amp; Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/danafair\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The university recently signed an enterprise services agreement with Barracuda Networks for a new e-signature service called U-M SignNow. 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