DocuSign CLM vs IBM

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IBM leads in AI visibility (80 vs 47)
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DocuSign CLM

ChallengerLegal

Contract Management

FY 2025 (ended Jan 31, 2025): Revenue $2.977B (+8% YoY); 1.7M customers in 180 countries; 1B+ users; 1,131 customers with $300K+ ACV (up from 1,060 in 2024)

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
C47
Category Rank
#3 of 5
AI Consensus
61%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
38
Perplexity
50
Gemini
51

About

DocuSign CLM is the contract lifecycle management platform from DocuSign, the San Francisco-based agreement cloud company founded in 2003. While DocuSign's eSignature product revolutionized document execution, CLM addresses the broader contract management lifecycle — authoring, negotiation, approval workflows, obligation tracking, and renewal management — giving legal, sales, and procurement teams a unified system for every stage of a contract from first draft to renewal. The platform's core technology uses AI to extract, classify, and surface contract metadata from both executed agreements and legacy documents.\n\nDocuSign CLM serves enterprise customers in financial services, life sciences, technology, and professional services who manage high volumes of complex contracts with multiple counterparties and jurisdictions. Key differentiators include deep integration with DocuSign eSignature, Salesforce, and major ERP systems, enabling contracts to flow automatically through CRM and procurement workflows. The Intelligent Agreement Management layer — powered by DocuSign AI — adds risk flagging, obligation extraction, and clause recommendations that reduce legal review time and surface buried contract risks.\n\nDocuSign reported FY2025 revenue of $2.977 billion, an 8% year-over-year increase, with 1.7 million customers across 180 countries and more than one billion users having touched the platform. The company counts 1,131 customers with $300,000+ annual contract values, reflecting strong enterprise adoption of its expanded platform beyond eSignature. As companies face increasing pressure to extract value from contracted commitments and reduce compliance risk, DocuSign CLM's position within the world's most trusted agreement infrastructure gives it a privileged entry point into enterprise contract intelligence.

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IBM

LeaderEnterprise Software

General

Armonk NY hybrid cloud and enterprise AI (NYSE: IBM) at $62.8B revenue; $6B+ generative AI bookings, record $12.7B free cash flow 2024, DataStax acquisition for watsonx vector database competing with Microsoft Azure for enterprise AI.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A80
Category Rank
#56 of 1158
AI Consensus
67%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
74
Perplexity
71
Gemini
84

About

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an Armonk, New York-based global technology and consulting company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IBM) as an S&P 500 component — providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence software, and enterprise IT consulting through approximately 270,300 employees in 170 countries with $62.8 billion in annual revenue. Founded on June 16, 1911, as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger orchestrated by financier Charles Ranlett Flint, renamed IBM in 1924 under Thomas Watson Sr., IBM has undergone multiple strategic transformations over its 110+ year history: building the System/360 mainframe platform (1964), launching the IBM PC (1981), selling the PC division to Lenovo (2005, $1.75B), and completing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition (2019) that repositioned IBM as a hybrid cloud platform company. CEO Arvind Krishna (appointed April 2020) has focused IBM's strategy on three areas: hybrid cloud (powered by Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform), AI (the watsonx platform for enterprise AI model development and deployment), and enterprise consulting. Under Krishna, IBM recorded $12.7 billion in free cash flow in 2024 (a company record), surpassed $6 billion in generative AI bookings since June 2023, and saw the stock price double — trading at all-time highs through 2024-2025. IBM announced the DataStax acquisition in 2025 to deepen watsonx's data layer with AstraDB (vector database for AI applications), DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra), and Langflow (low-code AI agent development).

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

47
Overall Score
80
#3
Category Rank
#56
61
AI Consensus
67
stable
Trend
up
38
ChatGPT
74
50
Perplexity
71
51
Gemini
84
52
Claude
74
55
Grok
81

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