Archive for the ‘Digital Signatures - General’ Category
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Last week, I ordered a wrist watch online (in a super cool ’80s style, too!), and I was really surprised at how positive customer reviews were about the lack of paper instructions. To learn how to set my new watch, I’d have to go online — Who knew people would react so well to this type of paperless initiative?
On a similar note, EA Sports, a developer of sports video games, has recently announced that it will no longer provide paper manuals, a move similar to Ubisoft’s switch to paperless last year. Both companies now offer instructions to their video games within the games themselves. While Ubisoft claimed the change would allow them to provide larger manuals, they also noted that they used an average of two tons of wood and 15,000 
gallons of water per year to create the paper manuals. EA Sports’ spokesman Rob Semsey was reported saying that their effort is intended to “support more environmentally friendly production of games.” I give both these companies a thumbs-up!
Tags: Digital Signature, digital signatures, EA Sports, electronic signature, electronic signatures, Ubisoft
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
If you haven’t noticed the trend toward 
electronic operations lately, you haven’t been looking. Organizations left and right are adopting business automation tools like MS SharePoint® with the aim of reducing paper, streamlining processes and saving money. Yet some people continue to think that wet-ink signatures, which can seriously delay process times, are more trustworthy and legally-enforceable than digital ones. I suppose without the proper resources, it’s simple to see why that’s the case.
Fortunately, ARX has put together a complimentary on-demand presentation on digital signature legal compliance. It’s a comprehensive, easy-to-read resource that covers everything you need to know about digital signature law and best practices for compliance, as well as electronic signature and digital signature legislation. Check it out!
Tags: Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, legislation
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
In a way, building a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution is kind of like building a snowman. You gather your resources, neatly build certain parts on top of others, and finally add the finishing touches. But when it comes to a SaaS solution that involves completing various documentation (like forms and other documents that require approvals), the lack of a digital signature component is like a snowman without a nose, or a scarf. Clearly, there’s something missing.
Fortunately, some digital signature solutions make it easy for SaaS developers to add a digital signing capability to their SaaS offering. This allows SaaS users, like geographically-dispersed employees, customers, and other external parties to electronically sign and deliver documents in a totally secure, easy-to-use and legally-enforceable manner. Surely, they’ll appreciate not having to waste time and money printing and delivering paper. Read about CoSign digital signatures for SaaS applications to learn more about how digital signatures can improve SaaS solutions.
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, SaaS
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
Isn’t it great when teams work together to provide the world with enhanced solutions? Apparently, digital signature provider ARX and RSA, the Security Division of EMC, seem to think so. A recent press release entitled Digital Signature Vendor ARX Teams with RSA Providing CoSign-IdV Interoperability reports on the partnership that will enable joint customers of ARX’s digital signature solution and RSA’s identity-proofing services to reliably establish trust and secure online transactions. Pretty cool, right?
ARX and RSA’s combined solution is designed to provide businesses with a reliable method to enroll customers for signature credentials, and then sign electronic transactions 
over the Internet with secure digital signatures. Among other benefits, this will enable organizations to keep costs down while maintaining control over their business processes. To learn more about this new combined solution, check out the press release.
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, Identity Verification, RSA, RSA Identity Verification
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Easy access to information
is just blissful, don’t you think? Sure, there’s something romantic about heading over to the library for information, but it’s undeniably sweet that the Internet can get us answers to just about any question in a matter of seconds. This week, I’m dedicated to making it easy for you to learn how digital signatures are being used in your industry, and how organizations like yours are saving big by going paperless with approvals.
Check out the links below to short, industry-specific video demos, brought to you by ARX. Enjoy!
Tags: Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, engineering, financial, Healthcare, insurance, Life Science, medical devices
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Not long ago I wrote about an interesting article I’d read on The Economist website on how some state and local governments are in serious financial trouble due to the recession, and I wondered: Why don’t more governments, many of whose processes are already electronic, embrace digital signatures? To my great excitement, it seems they are!
A press release published today reports on the County of Hawaii’s use of CoSign digital signatures. Members of the Legal department, including attorneys, investigators, and accountants, have made the switch to paperless approvals and are now experiencing considerably reduced process times. Martha Rodillas, the Private Secretary to the Corporation Counsel at County of Hawai’i, explains that employees “used to walk into [her] office every 30 minutes with paper documents for a wet signature approval, which could sometimes take a two-day turnaround time. With CoSign, it takes two seconds.” That’s a huge improvement! Check out the press release to find out more about how the County of Hawai’i is benefitting from digital signatures.
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, Government, paperless
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
I never understood why would anyone employ an electronic document management system that doesn’t have digital signature capability. Without it, users of such popular solutions as Microsoft SharePoint still have to print documents for authorization, which means routing (and routing fees), re-entering data, extended process times, and a slew of other costly and time-consuming inconveniences. Fortunately, with ARX’s free digital signatures with SharePoint trial, SharePoint users that are still in the dark about the many benefits of digital signatures can finally see the light.
The free SharePoint digital signatures trial allows users to digitally sign Microsoft Word and PDF files located in SharePoint Document Libraries, as well as SharePoint List Items. By eliminating the need to introduce paper into electronic processes 
for obtaining signature approvals, SharePoint users can get a taste of truly paperless operations while maximizing the return on their investment in business automation, cutting costs, and improving collaboration and efficiency. Thanks to the free SharePoint digital signatures trial, all of these benefits and more are up for grabs at no cost or risk whatsoever. Now how about that.
Tags: Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, free, free trial, paperless, SharePoint, SharePoint digital signature, trial
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
I recently read the article “All economics is local: The straits of cities and counties are hurting the recovery” from The Economist, and it got me thinking about how state and local governments could use digital signatures to save a few bucks. (Or a lot of bucks, actually.) The article discusses the serious financial troubles that some state and local governments are facing in light of the recession (or in some cases, in light of very poor decision-making) and the measures they’re taking in order to cut costs. Some of those measures are pretty scary – like cutting down on library hours, putting an end to art programs, and even collecting rubbish less often (ew!).
Since state and local government offices already have electronic record management systems in place, digital signatures seem like a natural next technology step for them. Digital signatures could be used in any department for signing documents like contracts,
court documents, and purchase orders, and they could even be used in public-facing departments that require signatures from external parties. This could mean serious cost savings from means that seem, at least to me, way more favorable than some others. Hopefully state and local governments will look to technology for saving cash before taking alternate, less appealing approaches like those mentioned in The Economist article.
Tags: Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, Government
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Saturday, December 11th, 2010
I
’m the kind of person that loves initiatives that save trees. I mean really loves. Makes sense that I’m all about digital signatures, doesn’t it? It also makes sense that I’m devoting this post to a great article I just came across on Engadget called WWF file format: it’s like a PDF that’s impossible to print. It discusses the new file format created by the World Wide Fund for Nature that’s – you guessed it – impossible to print!
Have you ever received or sent an email with a little note at the bottom asking the reader to think twice before printing? That’s a great way to alert people to the environmental consequences of printing. But with WWF files, you can go beyond alerting and take full control of how your documents are treated. And by embracing digital signatures, you can even use the WWF format with contracts, agreements, or any other document that needs to be approved. What a wonderful, environmentally sound way to manage your documents and processes. Check out the Engadget article to see more about WWF files!
Tags: Digital Signature, digital signatures, environment, green, PDF, WWF
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
If you thought digital signatures weren’t for Excel, think again! With digital signature capability in Excel, you can place your secure and unique graphical signature anywhere on an Excel spreadsheet. Then, send off the spreadsheet to any third party, and they’ll be able to verify your digital signature directly in Excel without the need for any additional or proprietary software.
With the free digital signature for Excel 30-day trial, you can check out digitally signing in Excel for yourself at no cost or risk whatsoever. And with this same trial, you’ll also be able to sign PDF, Word, and other popular document types. 
So forget about wasting time and paper on printing Excel files just for signing, and say goodbye to the hassle of scanning or manually routing spreadsheets you’ve approved. Do it electronically instead with the free digital signature for Excel 30-day trial. Enjoy!
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