DocuSign Alternatives

Why choose Aavenir CLM over DocuSign CLM?
Aavenir CLM is the DocuSign alternative for mid-to-large scale organizations that want to centralize, automate, and dynamically orchestrate contract management tasks across their enterprise, without sacrificing ease of use.

What is Aavenir Contractflow?

Aavenir Contractflow is an AI-enabled connected contract lifecycle management solution that enables enterprises to standardize and streamline the end-to-end contract lifecycle. The solution allows enterprises to create, review, negotiate, approve, e-sign, store and monitor contracts in a centralized repository on ServiceNow Platform.

Built on ServiceNow platform, Aavenir Contractflow offers connected contract management experience empowering business teams, vendors, and customers with an ability to request, create, manage, monitor, and access contracts from their core business systems built on ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday, SAP and more through quick low-code/no-code integrations.

What is DocuSign CLM?

In addition to the e-signature solution, DocuSign acquired SpringCM and rebranded it as DocuSign CLM. The rebranded solution allows enterprises to streamline contract management tasks and workflows. In addition to native interaction with DocuSign eSignature, contract generation, approval, and a searchable repository for completed agreements are all included.

DocuSign functionality is available in CLM as well as core business systems like Salesforce, Workday, SAP, and more through best-in-class pre-built integrations. By enabling workflow across the entire agreement process, enterprises can do business faster, simplify compliance, and improve the employee and customer experience.

Aavenir Contractflow vs DocuSign CLM at a glance

To help you discover which CLM could work best for you, we looked at how both solutions perform across the following capabilities:
CLM Solution CapabilitiesAavenirDocusign CLM
Contract Drafting
Contract Request
Contract Editor
Input form with Live-Preview
Input form and Preview
Automated contract generation Auto-insert data from 
ServiceNow requests, emails or Aavenir Avy AI.
Insert data from an input form or via Salesforce.
Mass Contract creation
Contract Templates
Clause Library
Contract Review
In-Contract Redlining
via Microsoft O365 app
Microsoft O365 Integration
Version Control
Workflows
eSignature DocuSign, Acrobat Sign, or any other DocuSign
Contract Repository
Contract Storage ServiceNow Customer Cloud DocuSign Cloud
Contract Search AI-powered full text semantic searchFull text keyword search
Proximity search
Reports and Dashboards
Artificial Intelligence
AI Contract data Extraction
AI Contract Clause Review
Risk Scoring
Obligation Compliance
Automated Obligation Extraction
Obligation fulfillment Workflow

Difference between DocuSign and Aavenir CLM Administration

Learn why enterprise choose Aavenir to manage end-to-end contract lifecycle management solution
CLM Solution AdministrationAavenirDocusign CLM
Platform ServiceNow Home-grown with Salesforce integration
Integrations
  • Aavenir Source-to-Pay solutions.
  • Microsoft O365 apps
  • ServiceNow products
  • Salesforce, SAP Ariba, and other procurement, CRM, and enterprise systems.
  • Salesforce, SAP Ariba, Coupa and Workday
  • Slack
Security and Uptime SOC 1 & SOC 2 certified SOC 1 & SOC 2 certified
Implementation Time 4-6 weeks 6-8 weeks
Custom Implementation
24X7 Customer support
Upgrade & Maintenance Quarterly Upgrades, Seamless Administration like ServiceNow Regular updates and Administration

Disclaimer: The above information was gathered from multiple sources over time and may or may not be factually accurate today. We encourage you to perform your own research and visit the websites of Aavenir and DocuSign for the latest updates on features and implementation capabilities. For additional information, feel free to contact us.

Frequently asked questions

What's the major difference between DocuSign CLM vs Aavenir Contractflow?

Both Aavenir Contractflow and DocuSign offers basis CLM functionalities such as contract creation, template library, review and negotiation workflows, e-signature, contract repository, contract analytics, and business tools integration.

The primary difference is the way their features are built to cater to specific user-base. DocuSign mainly caters to sale-side contracts, with its primary user base on sales and legal teams. It integrates with Salesforce platform from contract requests. Aavenir Contractflow has been built to be used for all buy-side, sell-side contracts, and third-party contracts, however because Aavenir is a Source-to-Pay solutions provider, most of the Aavenir Contract flow user base belongs to procurement and legal team. It integrated well with its own Source-to-pay solutions, ServiceNow Source-to-pay applications, as well as other ERP applications using low-code/no-code integrations.

What are the DocuSign CLM competitors on ServiceNow platform ?

Aavenir is the only alternative to DocuSign CLM for ServiceNow Platform users who wants to streamline contract lifecycle management and extend capabilities of ServiceNow applications such as ServiceNow Legal Service Delivery, ServiceNow Sourcing and Procurement Operations, ServiceNow Supply Chain Management, ServiceNow IT Service Management, ServiceNow GRC and more. 

DocuSign CLM does not offer native out-of-box integration with ServiceNow. It is primarily offering integrations for Salesforce. Organizations need to use custom APIs and connectors to connect DocuSign CLM with ServiceNow to request DocuSign contract lifecycle management and receive insights into ServiceNow.

Between Aavenir and DocuSign CLM, which solution can be customized to meet specific business needs?

Aavenir is highly customizable. Because it is built on ServiceNow, organizations can easily configure the solution to match their unique workflows, and specific requirements for different types of contracts.

DocuSign’s pre-built features are flexible so they can be configured to meet different business requirements. However, it cannot be completely customized for individual use cases. It will be an additional support service from DocuSign which will be provided for enterprise-class customers only at a higher cost.

Can I consider Aavenir as a DocuSign competitor for e-signature?

No, Aavenir leverages DocuSign eSignature to offer secured and responsive e-signature of agreements within Aavenir CLM Solution interface.

While eSignature has changed the way that many organizations execute a contract, the lifecycle before and after signature is often managed through manual processes, spreadsheets, and emails—slowing the pace of doing business, increasing risk, and frustrating customers and employees.

DocuSign was introduced primarily as an e-signature tool. It has further extended their e-signature solutions to offer CLM capabilities to remove friction from entire agreement lifecycle—not just the native electronic signature part of the contract process.

Aavenir Contractflow is an AI-first CLM software that provides native integration with e-signature tools such as DocuSign and Adobe Sign to offer secured and responsive e-signature of agreements within Aavenir CLM Solution. In addition, Aavenir manages end-to-end contract lifecycle, offers AI recommendations, sends reminders for pending signatures and provides a real-time update on signature status.
In all, both DocuSign CLM and Aavenir offer the same e-signature experience.

Which tool offers better e-signature experience?

While eSignature has changed the way that many organizations execute a contract, the lifecycle before and after signature is often managed through manual processes, spreadsheets, and emails—slowing the pace of doing business, increasing risk, and frustrating customers and employees.

DocuSign was introduced primarily as an e-signature tool that has extended their e-signature solutions as CLM to remove friction from entire agreement lifecycle—not just the native electronic signature part of the contract process.

From the start, Aavenir Contractflow has been built as AI-powered CLM software that provides native integration e-signature tools such as DocuSign and Adobe Sign for secured and responsive -e-signature of agreements within Aavenir CLM Solution. Aavenir sends reminders for pending signatures and provides a real-time update on signature status

In all, both DocuSign CLM and Aavenir offer the same e-signature experience.

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  • The Aavenir team has taken the time to understand Lumeris’s particular needs, and has put in exceptional effort to ensure that, as implemented, Aavenir Contractflow generates efficiencies in our complex workflow.
    Peter Rasche
    Associate General Counsel, Lumeris
  • Aavenir Invoiceflow has improved our efficiency with seamless vendor collaboration, zeroing duplicate invoices, and manual invoice management. Integrating the SAP accounting system has further enhanced accrual reporting and timely payments, giving way to supplier discounts.
    Dar Khalighi, CIO
    American Seafoods Group
  • Since implementing Aavenir Contractflow in 2021, we've seen a remarkable 66 percent acceleration in the legal review process at Express Pros. The user-friendly interface of Aavenir has made it easy for our team to adapt, requiring minimal training. What used to take days for legal reviews now only takes hours, greatly benefiting our franchisees. I wholeheartedly recommend the Aavenir team for their responsiveness and unwavering support—they always prioritize our needs!
    Jared Mashaney, 
    V.P. of Legal & Asst. General Counsel
    Express Employment International
  • SoU had a custom-built purchase application on ServiceNow. However, we knew that building an AI-enabled invoice processing solution on ServiceNow and integrating it into our purchasing system was definitely going to be a time-consuming project, which would need skilled ServiceNow resources. Thanks, we chose Aavenir Invoiceflow.
    Tyrel King, Financial Manager
    State of Utah
  • A few of the features that drew our interest to Aavenir were their understanding of the procure-to-pay processes, the machine learning capabilities of the platform, and the ease of making adjustments to meet our needs. Working with the Aavenir implementation team is one of the best experiences we had with this process.
    Greg Rice, Director, Global Applications
    T. D. Williamson

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