In this day and age, it’s customary to check out a product online before buying it, and user reviews tend to come in especially handy during this process. Indeed, getting the 4-1-1 on another person’s experience with a product or solution before adopting it for yourself may greatly impact your decision.
If you’re considering implementing digital signatures, you’d probably be interested in finding out what people who are (and aren’t) using them have to say about it. Fortunately, AIIM – a leading authority in the field of document management and workflow automation – has made it easy to get this information with their recent, first-of-its-kind research entitled Digital Signatures for Document Workflow and SharePoint. In surveying digital signature users and non-users alike, they report on the perceived and actual benefits of the digital signing technology, and inquire on topics like how prevalent formal signatures are in day-to-day business activities for organizations from various industries.
One question AIIM posed in the survey was: Would you say that more than 50% of the main business processes/documents in your organizational unit require formal signatures?
In the graph above, you can see that in the ‘Engineering & Construction’, and ‘Professional services, Legal and Media’ industries, a good amount of processes rely on obtaining signature approvals. What does this imply in terms of digital signatures? If you’d like to know, you can download AIIM’s study for free and find out. Enjoy!
es and reduced costs may just give you some ideas on how you could do the same at your organization.
and also provides links to a bunch of cool organizations that can help us along the way. For example, did you know that there’s an organization out there that will plant not one, not two, but FIVE trees in your name just for letting them help you go paperless? Be sure you check out how some Twitter-goers go paperless in the tweets at the end of the article, too. Some of their methods may take you by surprise!
