{"id":4439,"date":"2017-03-31T02:46:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/hellosign-moves-into-digital-workflow-with-new-helloworks-product.html"},"modified":"2017-03-31T02:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:46:21","slug":"hellosign-moves-into-digital-workflow-with-new-helloworks-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/hellosign-moves-into-digital-workflow-with-new-helloworks-product.html","title":{"rendered":"HelloSign moves into digital workflow with new HelloWorks product"},"content":{"rendered":"


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HelloSign<\/a>, founded in 2011, has been best known to this point as an e-signature company, but today it announced something a bit more substantial, a new product called HelloWorks<\/a>, which allows the company to move into workflow, digitizing processes that involve complex forms.<\/p>\n

For many years now, HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla said, the way we moved paper processes into the digital realm was simply taking a\u00a0paper form and converting it\u00a0to a pdf. HelloWorks aims to change that. \u201cWe\u2019ve created a brand new platform that gets rid of digital paper-pushing\u201d Walla said.<\/p>\n

Company COO Whitney Bouck, who previously had stints with EMC Documentum and Box, said\u00a0it\u2019s really about transforming the flow of paper to digital and removing the pdf once and for all. \u201cWorkflow designed to automate complex document workflows historically relied on pdf. We\u2019ve substituted more of a guided tour,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

That means they ask you questions up front, automatically populate data when possible and provide a more streamlined experience. As with any good cloud service, Bouck\u00a0said it is attempting to hide the process complexity behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

For starters, they are looking at paper-heavy tasks like insurance claims, mortgage applications, house-sale closings, HR on-boarding \u2014 and that ilk. \u201cWhere we shine is in helping automate complex document-centric processes that need legal binding to complete,\u201d she said. Bouck made it clear that this isn\u2019t about becoming a general workflow engine that can do anything. They are concentrating on critical business processes that are generally tied to revenue, but\u00a0which have been traditionally done on paper or pdf.<\/p>\n

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Alan Lepofsky, an analyst with Constellation Research, said\u00a0this approach could work for certain types of workflow. \u201cIf HelloWorks makes it easy to create the input forms, and they are engaging for the people using them, then I think it could be useful for structured content \u2014 contracts, applications [and so forth],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But Lepofsky would like to see some built-in intelligence to help\u00a0guide in creation, suggested responses, finding similar content and fact checking. Walla said\u00a0simplifying\u00a0the entry process\u00a0for the user is definitely the goal, whether that\u2019s filling in information the system knows from other encounters or hiding questions that aren\u2019t relevant based on previous answers.<\/p>\n

For starters, the company\u00a0will be helping customers\u00a0redesign their paper processes into digital ones in HelloWorks, but some time later this year, it\u00a0will be releasing an API that enables developers to build these workflows themselves without HelloSign\u2019s help.<\/p>\n

HelloWorks will also likely have to move information in and out of legacy systems to access and share information inside the processes they are trying to automate, and will have to deal with the complexity of handling those interactions, while ensuring that the various programs which\u00a0have access to this information fall within compliance guidelines.\u00a0Walla said that they are aware of these kinds of requirements, and have taken them into account\u00a0as they have developed the product.<\/p>\n

This shift isn\u2019t insignificant in Lepofsky\u2019s view, who likens it to when Box moved from a point solution to a broader enterprise platform play. \u201cIt\u2019s similar to Box shifting from file-sync to content-centric collaboration,\u201d he said. Similarly to Box, which had ambition beyond file storage, HelloSign appears to have greater aspirations than\u00a0e-signatures \u2014 and this could be a first step to getting there.<\/p>\n

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