Posts Tagged ‘CoSign’
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The wave of mobile is upon us. More and more, professionals across fields are taking their work outside the office, and new technologies that enable this are surfacing constantly. The way we work is changing, and it’s changing fast.
Keeping astride with changing times, CoSign® digital signatures for SharePoint – the digital signature solution that enables SharePoint processes to remain electronic from start to finish – is now available on your mobile. This means SharePoint users who are working remotely don’t have to worry about holding up processes, wasting time and money on paper approvals and scanning, or relying on their laptops to 
provide signed authorizations. With CoSign for SharePoint Mobile, they can add their digital signatures on-the-go to SharePoint list items and documents using an iPad, Android-based phone, or other mobile device – no laptop necessary.
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, mobile, SharePoint
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
Listen up, people – I’ve got some exciting news! CoSign version 5.4, the latest update to ARX’s flagship digital signature solution, has arrived.
The recent update offers a lot of new features and enhancements, including a redesigned graphical user interface that makes digital signing easier than ever. With CoSign 5.4, an unlimited number of graphical signatures is supported for every signer. In addition, engineers can now easily add their digital signatures and seals to multiple pages of any document with a new, easy-to-use click-through signing feature.
If you’re not already using CoSign and enjoying these and other new features, you can try out the free digital signature trial and experience first-hand the benefits of paperless signing. To learn more about what’s new in CoSign 5.4, check out the press release. Enjoy!
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signature trial, digital signatures, digital signatures trial, electronic signature, electronic signatures, software update
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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 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, November 19th, 2010
There’s good 
news for clinical trial professionals! A recent press release has announced that Entralogix, a leading provider of clinical software solutions for life sciences organizations, has integrated the CoSign® digital signature solution offered by ARX into its combined eTMF (electronic Trial Master File) and investigator portal solution. This means an exciting advance for users of the Entralogix eStudy Binder® solution, who will now be able to keep clinical trial documentation electronic throughout the entire lifecycle.
Life science organizations around the world are adopting digital signatures alongside e-Clinical technologies in order to improve efficiency and streamline processes, and to avoid slow and inefficient paper-based processes. With digital signatures that allow compliance with industry regulations such as the FDA Title 21 CFR part 11, these organizations experience added benefits like compliant e-submissions that regulatory authorities prefer. Check out the press release to read more about how clinical trial professionals are using eStudy Binder and CoSign digital signatures to improve their processes.
Tags: clinical operations, clinical research organization, CoSign, CRO, Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, investigator portal
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Have you noticed the growing trend of organizations adopting electronic content management (ECM) or document management systems in order to turn their business operations electronic? (If not, where have you been?) Even FIFA, the international football (soccer) association, uses digital signatures integrated with their ECM to enable electronic approval of invoices (in bulk!), saving them endless hours of paper-based signing.
So, what happens when the need for a signature arises and an organization’s ECM lacks a digital signature component?
Reintroducing paper into the workflow after having invested in business automation tools like ECMs shrinks the sought-after benefits of the investment, which can be quite pricey. Among other disadvantages, it increases costs and process times, and decreases efficiency and productivity. Fortunately, one of the greatest aspects about today’s digital signature technology is that it can be integrated seamlessly with popular ECMs, like Microsoft® SharePoint®, at a fraction of the cost.
By implementing a digital signature solution into an electronic content management system, you can gain the greatest benefits from your investment in automation – like never having to print out another piece of paper again solely for obtaining a signature approval. This will lower your costs and expedite your business, while enabling you to remain legally compliant. Using a digital signature rather than an electronic signature solution even avoids vendor lock-in; digital signatures are standards-based, which enables anyone, including outside parties, to view and verify the digital signature. Pretty cool, huh?
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, paperless
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
If you’re the type 
of person that needs to get their hands dirty and experience first-hand what a new solution is all about, then I have good news for you. ARX is offering a free 30-day trial of the CoSign® digital signature solution, so you can get a real taste of all the digital signature benefits you’ve been reading about – at no risk whatsoever.
Here are the top 5 benefits you can expect to enjoy from the free 30-day CoSign trial:
- Save time. With your CoSign digital signature, you can eliminate the time-consuming processes of printing, scanning, and mailing paper documents for the sake of approvals, and provide your approval in a matter of minutes rather than days.
- Transferability. No need to worry about whether receiving parties will be able to trust your digital signature. With CoSign, any third party can easily verify your digital signature for signer identity, intent, and document integrity (meaning the content hasn’t been changed since signing) – without the need for any verification software.
- Simplicity and ease of use. With only a quick and simple download, you’ll be able to digitally sign any of your favorite document formats, including Microsoft® Word, PDF, Excel®, and others.
- Sign from anywhere, at any time. Forget about carrying a printer or finding the local post office when you’re traveling or working on-the-go. With only a click of the mouse, you can use your CoSign digital signature to approve electronic documents from anywhere at any time.
- Provide better service. When your customers or clients no longer have to wait for your approval to arrive in the mail, they’ll be more than thrilled. By optimizing your response time, you can close the deal faster.
Enjoy the free trial!
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signature trial, digital signatures, digital signatures trial, electronic signature, electronic signatures
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Videos are just plain fun, aren’t they? Music videos, clips from standup comedy acts, my niece learning how to swim… They really have a way of getting across. Even informative videos can be fun, especially when you’re not in the mood to read!
If you ever find yourself wondering how digital signatures really expedite processes and cut costs, and you’re just not in the mood to read an article or pick up a techie magazine, there’s a 2-minute video overview on digital signatures that’s got the answer waiting for you. The short video simplifies the digital signature story, and fills you in on how digital signatures enhance document management systems, speed up your processes, save you lots of time and money, and even enable you to be environmentally friendly – all in just 120 seconds.
It may not make you laugh out loud or run for cover, but this video sure is helpful if you’re wondering what digital signatures are all about. It can also serve as a great resource for quickly bringing your friends or coworkers up-to-speed on the benefits a digital signature solution can provide.
Tags: CoSign, Digital Signature, digital signature demo, digital signature video, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures, paperless
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
It’s pretty fascinating to think of the different ways we use digital signatures in our lives. From electronically signing a mail delivery that’s just arrived at our doorstep, to digitally signing off on bank transactions via our home computer. Businesses also use digital signatures in a variety of ways. Take CROs (clinical research organizations) for example; CROs are always coming up with new drugs to cure illnesses, and conducting studies and clinical trials in order to get these drugs approved as quickly as possible. In order to initiate these processes, signature authorizations from remotely-located parties must be obtained in the quickest and most effective way possible. With digital signatures, CROs are able to more quickly obtain the approvals they need to initiate studies, and keep them moving forward swiftly and efficiently.
A recent press release entitled Digital Signatures Provide Competitive Advantage for Top 10 CROs takes a deeper look into how some of the world’s top 10 CROs apply digital signatures, and the benefits they obtain from doing so. Even if your profession is as far from clinical research as New York City is from Hong Kong, learning about the ways CROs use digital signatures to enjoy benefits like expedited business process
es and reduced costs may just give you some ideas on how you could do the same at your organization.
Check out the press release on Top 10 CROs using CoSign digital signatures.
Tags: clinical research organization, CoSign, CRO, Digital Signature, digital signatures, electronic signature, electronic signatures
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