Attention SharePoint people! There’s a 
free webinar happening tomorrow, May 17, at 11AM (CDT) called Document Management, Compliance and Automation in SharePoint – and you definitely don’t want to miss it!
Experts from ARX, Adlib, and K2 will spend the hour sharing must-know information on ways organizations can leverage SharePoint in order to simplify processes, reduce human error, and help satisfy regulatory compliance. Register now!
When you think about it, discerning the benefits of digital signatures is pretty simple. Numerous processes we engage with on a daily basis are automated and involve the need for a signature at some point or another. Without a digital signing capability, there’s an inevitable reversion to paper that costs us in time, money, efficiency, and more.
But do we really understand the full extent to which signature-dependent processes affect our operations?
Listed below are only some of the common document types that require signatures. Does this list tell you something new about how the need for signatures—across every department—may affect operations at your organization? Answer the poll below and let us know!
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There’s only one month to go until ShareFEST, and we can hardly wait! The premier SharePoint conference for Life Sciences brings hundreds of people together from hundreds of organizations around the world, including Pharma companies, device manufacturers, and biotech firms.
We’ll be there talking about – you guessed it – digital signatures! In the Life Sciences ecosystem, there are countless ways to apply digital signatures in order to shorten process times, enhance collaboration, maintain document integrity, and support compliance with strict industry regulations. We’ll share how organizations are using digital signatures
to cut costs, expedite reporting, speed up clinical site initiation, and more. Meet us there!
ARX is leaping into March with a number of complimentary 60-minute training sessions on the CoSign® digital signature solution. These are a great opportunity to get an in-depth look at the leading digital signing engine that’s being used by tens of thousands of organizations of every size, across sectors and around the globe.
Check out the training sessions below and register so you don’t miss out! If you’re interested in a session but can’t make the date, register anyway. You’ll get a copy of the recording after the session has completed.
CoSign with SharePoint – March 6 10AM (PST) / 10AM (CET)
CoSign for End-Users – March 13 10AM (PST) / 10AM (CET)
CoSign for Admins – March 14 10AM (PST) / 10AM (CET)
The FDA is now approving fewer new drugs than ever before. For life sciences organizations, this means gains have to be generated from other areas, like operations and management efficiencies that cut costs and streamline operations.
Enter electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) with digital signature capability—the modern, paperless method for managing lab-related documents that helps life sciences professionals keep their organizations afloat. With ELNs, scientists can spend more time in the lab rather than wasting time managing paper-based documents. With lab-related documentation in a secure, digital format, life sciences organizations can totally eliminate the costs previously required for backing up, routing, and archiving paper documents. As discussed in a Pharma IQ article, the benefits of ELNs don’t end there. Equipped with digital signature technology, 
ELNs also enable organizations to record proof of innovation quicker than ever with electronic records that will be readable, verifiable, and legally enforceable for decades into the future. Pretty cool, if I may say so myself! Check out the Pharma IQ article to learn more about ELNs and digital signatures.
Thanks to the latest version of 
CoSign with SharePoint, that is. The popular digital signing solution that eliminates the reintroduction of paper into otherwise automated processes has recently been updated with some exciting enhancements. For example, users can now digitally sign InfoPath forms in their native formats with neither CoSign nor InfoPath installed on their machines. Talk about taking a load off those administrators, right? The update also includes improvements for signing PDF files in SharePoint that put extended capabilities in the users’ hands without requiring administrative support. It seems end users and admins alike will find plenty to fall in love with in this latest release. Read more about it here.
Hey folks! I’m back with some exciting news about a project called Digital Seals and Signatures that ARX, provider of the leading CoSign® digital signature solution, is participating in. It’s headed by Fiatech, an organization that works to advance the implementation of technology and innovative practices in the AEC industry. Engineers, listen up!
When completed, the Digital Seals and Signatures project will provide the world with a best practices guide for implementing digital seals and digital signatures in AEC processes. Why is this fantastic? Because AEC professionals face a number disadvantages due to the reliance on paper for sealing and signing final documents. Among these disadvantages are extensive procedural bottlenecks and skyrocketing organizational costs. Fortunately, digital signature technology effectively addresses this problem. Yet, as with most major transformations (however positive), AEC professionals still hesitate to make the shift to electronic approval processes.
Enter the Digital Seals and Signatures guide, which will provide an invaluable resource to AEC professionals. It’ll explain how digital signatures and seals work, how they can be applied in the unique environments of architecture, engineering and construction, and much more. Excited? Me too. Learn more about the project here.
I just came across an interesting blog post by Friso De Jong that offers six reasons why we should use digital signatures forever. De Jong writes about the new EU e-invoicing legislation that is set to go into effect in 2013, and which reportedly “includes no formal requirement to use technical elements like advanced electronic signatures,” or digital signatures.
But in De Jong’s mind, digital signatures have their own “intrinsic value,” and people who use electronic invoicing should keep using them. Why? De Jong explains that, for one, 
digital signatures support a sense of responsibility and a positive reputation. A digital signature, he writes, “shows that you are a professional and that you can be verified through the credentials in the digital signature. Adding a digital signature to an e-invoice is also an extension of the service you offer customers or clients as you help them comply with their fiscal requirements.” See the rest of De Jong’s reasons for maintaining digital signature use in his post.
The holiday season is upon us once again, and if you’re anything like me, that means you’ve got two things at the top of your mind: time, and money. Whether we’re talking about finding the time (and the money) for all that holiday shopping, or growing the money pile by closing those last-minute year-end deals on time, it seems time and money are of the essence now more than ever.
For FileHold Systems this holiday season, time and money translates to helping people save both. The president of the company, 
Larry Oliver, even said so himself in a recent press release, where he pointed to the need for organizations to save paper, time, and money as a factor in FileHold’s decision to add a digital signature component to its electronic document management solution. The new addition enables users to save “precious time and money” by signing documents with the click of a mouse rather than needing to print, route, scan, and manually archive them. Check out the press release to learn more.
I recently wrote a post called Digital Signatures can help keep U.S. county courts afloat which explored how city councils can enjoy substantial cost savings by adopting digital signatures, and cited the implementation of a digital signature solution at the City of Vernon in British Columbia as an example. Apparently, counties in other parts of the world are also catching on. A recent article from ‘This is it Staffordshire’ discusses the cost-cutting moves of the Stoke on Trent city council in Staffordshire, England, which include adopting digital signatures.
The article reports that £20,000 will be spent on digital signature technology which will enable the city council to reduce its overall paper use, replace the storage of “masses of paperwork” with digital files, and enable city officials to work from outside the office. The council’s acting director of business services, Steve Sankey, was quoted saying “The benefits are huge; from not passing as much paper around to working more quickly and efficiently.” He’s right on the money about some of the many benefits digital signatures can offer city councils. If you want to know more, check out the ‘This is it Staffordshire’ article.
