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Rarely do I get excited about building out a new integration. It’s not that I’m not up to the challenge, (because let’s be honest what self-respecting developer doesn’t get amped at building out a new feature!?), but the idea of having to dig through outdated documentation for an overly complex API that then requires three methods of authentication just to get in, well that just doesn’t sound like a fun afternoon.

I've attended quite a few legal tech/operations related conferences and trade shows over the past 10 years - both as a practicing attorney and as the CEO of PactSafe. Most of the them have a heavily vendor-driven agenda geared toward law firms. I'm often left with very little hope that the legal profession is on the right track to evolve and embrace efficiency and technology. Last week, though, I had the privilege to attend the 2017 CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) Institute in Las Vegas, and I left with a much different outlook.

Yesterday our Co-Founder & COO Eric Prugh hosted a webinar breaking down three ways PactSafe is reimagining contracts in the "right-now" economy. During the webinar, he shared three examples of how current PactSafe customers use the contract execution platform. (Spoiler alert: it's revolutionary)

It's a pretty exciting week for our team at PactSafe as we officially launch some significant, and game changing, upgrades to our platform. Tech companies are always evolving, adding new features, and more, however the story behind this particular evolution in our platform and our business is one we feel needs to be shared. 

Today, PactSafe unveils its Contract Execution Platform, the only platform of its kind that ensures confidence in the end-to-end contract experience. PactSafe’s all-encompassing solution empowers any business to reimagine the contract execution experience, while automating the management and centralization of all contract and transaction data.

If you're anything like us here at PactSafe, you are obsessed with Mike Judge and Alec Berg’s comedy about the American tech industry: Silicon Valley. The show, which just started it's fourth season last month, centers around a group of young entrepreneurs trying to make it big despite the hijinks they regularly find themselves in. Silicon Valley successfully satirizes the tech goliaths and the startup world, in a hilarious and completely relatable way.

We're just now exploring the integrations that are possible with the Contract Execution Platform, and the only problem is that there are so many places to start. We serve legal teams, sales teams, and development teams, so the possibilities are endless as far as productized integrations. Naturally, we turned to our customers and looked at what they wanted to achieve. What resulted was a native integration to Salesforce that allows sales folks to connect your Opportunities to the PactSafe Contract Execution Platform to send contracts for acceptance or esignature.

We’ve pioneered how contract execution is presented and tracked inside web and mobile apps, and we’re coming 'atcha today to help you find the best features to streamline your own workflows to follow suit. PactSafe's contract execution platform helps eliminate friction by engaging customers how and where they want. One feature completely unique to PactSafe that guides this strategy is SMS contract execution.

Read on about the SMS feature or dive deeper into Innovative eSignature alternatives for Developers on ProgrammableWeb.  

The Forbes 2016 State of the Cloud Report details the five stages that companies go through before committing to trusting various aspects of the cloud (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance). For software as a service companies, trusting the cloud is an unspoken agreement between teams and the force of the internet. If the cloud goes down, we're all doomed! Quite literally.