Posted on Sun, Aug 08, 2010
SIGNiX can help you start signing sooner – allowing you to save time and money.
If you’re an executive, project manager, business analyst or stakeholder tasked with introducing digital signatures to your organization, SIGNiX is the right place for you to start turning signatures digitally significant.
SIGNiX has a decade of experience, enabling business critical documents – formerly dependent on paper and wet signatures - to be efficiently executed using secure digital signatures as part of highly automated electronic processes within the enterprise. Just tell us about your current situation with some insight into your goals cost-effective, paperless processes, and we’ll help you to achieve them as quickly as possible.
The SIGNiX SIGNOLOGY solution together with the appropriate, expert guidance will enable you to make your project a success. We have a friendly requirements checklist, project template, and an ROI calculator that will minimize the amount of time and effort required by you and your internal resources to get the definitive answers on going digital.
When you’re ready to take the next step toward a digital future, our experienced team of business consultants and solution developers can help you through the following items:
- Build a detailed digital signature business case
- Understand the SIGNiX X-Factors, the selection criteria you can use to evaluate your digital signature requirements
- Ensure you don’t take avoidable risks for you and your customers with simplistic e-signature solutions that don’t have the necessary security and trust
- Assessment of the opportunities to integrate digital signatures into your business systems and process?
- Map out the pre and post digital signature workflows
- Get started as quickly as possible with the easiest to use digital signature in the marketplace
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Posted on Sat, Aug 07, 2010
Given the advantages of a paperless office, why is society not yet there?
The answer is deceptively simple: There is no substitute on the market today that is as portable, durable, simple, and accessible as paper for every aspect of a businesses functions. In fact, contrary to the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions’ study, the consumption of paper per capita in the United States has grown 43% since 1980, according to the American Forest and Paper Association. This works out to about 2 pounds of paper per person per day (Hilgen, 2000).
The transformation to paperless is not a painless undertaking. It requires carefully thought out implementation schedules from management and unbridled commitment from the entire organization. Paper is a medium which everyone can use and to which everyone has access. Why transform a business into using a medium of information exchange that is not comfortable to everyone? Another contributor to the slow transformation to the paperless office is the lack of standardization, particularly in relation to electronic-based office forms as well as digital signature solutions.
Business communications, documents and forms work well with digital signatures and flow simply eliminating the need for paper documents.
A 3-STEP PROCESS For Digital Signature Solutions
Step # 1 : Document creation, collaboration and revision.
Step # 2 : Document circulation, approval and execution.
Step # 3 : Document archive and retrieval.
Standard e-signature solutions have, until now, focused on low risk transactions and low volume applications. SIGNiX SIGNOLOGY is the next-generation solution that delivers significant value to companies by allowing business critical applications involving important legal and financial transactions to be digitally signed as part of a fully automated electronic process.
Posted on Wed, Aug 04, 2010
Many professionals dream of a "paperless office." No paper equals no paperwork, right? For physicians the day has come where satisfying patient clinical encounters come and go without the hassle and aggravation of finding and reviewing mounds of medical records for each patient. Missing charts and misplaced labs no longer have to exist.
In the past, the percentage of revenue invested for information technology in the
health care industry has been significantly less than other major industries, such as financial services. With health care being an information intensive endeavor, the complexity of the information needs, and the reluctance of some physicians in health care to adapt effectively to paperless solutions.
There are several reasons why businesses don't begin the paperless process, some of those reasons are:It is not the way we do it.
I don’t know where to start.
It is too expensive.
It’s unreliable.
Confidentiality is compromised.
The whole world is not doing it.
It decreases productivity.
There are a variety of physicians practice management software applications that have been developed, and now there are digital signature solutions for the health care industry as well. By using a digital signature solution, you are able to cure some of the immediate challenges - improving patient care, controlling costs, meeting government regulations.
The result is streamlining and integrating your health care processes – administrative and patient-related records, documents, forms and business communications which allows you to reduce costs and increase the amount of time spent on patient care.
Digital signatures replace the paper and pen in a fast paced environment, and slow and expensive paper-based approval processes with fast, low-cost, and fully digital processes with the patient, throughout the health care industry.
Posted on Mon, Aug 02, 2010
Going PaperlessSounds easy doesn't it? You just decide one day that you're going to make your office a paperless one, as if becoming paperless was as easy as just making a conscience decision to do so. If that was the case wouldn't everyone be paperless, from the work at home mom to the largest insurance company? I would hope so, but I doubt it, which is partly the reason why it may just be impossible to become truly paperless. In order to become totally paperless every individual or business that your company works with must become paperless as well. Is that likely to happen soon? It's not likely.
If you're waiting to go paperless when everyone else does you'll be waiting a long time. Do it now. Make a hard, determined decision to go paperless and begin the long but ultimately rewarding process of getting it done. Concentrate on the future benefits of becoming paperless instead of dwelling on the seemingly insurmountable task of physically getting it done. It will be a large undertaking, but it is very achievable and not as difficult as one might think.
One part of
going paperless is the digitizing your files. Do you have to filter your files first? No, of course not, but it sure will help in the future if you ever need to retrieve that information. Some of you may be fortunate enough to already know without a doubt that every document in every file is important, and therefore, will be scanned. In that case all you need to do is get busy scanning.
* Remember to attack the monster one day at a time.
* Quantify each days work by time or number of files.
* Set a goal and schedule for each the week and stick to it.
* Filter useless paperwork from files to be scanned.
* Get busy scanning or pay someone to get busy for you.
The other step that must be taken is to put in place a digital signature solution for your company. Despite the myriad challenges faced by large institutions in today’s economic climate, it might just prove to be a perfect time for small- and medium-sized institutions to focus on green initiatives and grab market share from their competitors who have put these inniatives on the back burner.
In this age of Internet and mobile transactions, it’s hard to imagine some industries such as banks operating without paper. Whether a customer completes a paper application or internal documents are passed along for signatures most employees and customers still assume all transactions end with a stack of paperwork and a
“wet” signature on the bottom line. There is technology that can reduce everyday paper use, while reducing costs.
The solution is to create an enterprise-wide digital environment that is superior to a paper-based environment—one that customers want to join because it makes their lives easier. There’s growing evidence that such green efforts boost the bottom line and can help companies outperform their competitors. It’s an opportunity to innovate and help the environment.
Posted on Tue, Jul 20, 2010
The technology behind electronic or digital signatures is called PKI or Public Key Infrastructure. In order to go paperless in industries that rely on securing signatures for legal documents, there has to be a secure way to protect that digital signature for the end user as well as the business.
PKI uses asymmetric key-pair encryption. The only way to decrypt data encrypted with one key in the pair is by using the other key in the pair. This key pair is comprised of a public key and a private key. The public key, may be shared freely, as this key does not need to be kept confidential. The private key, on the other hand, must be kept secret. The owner of the key pair must guard his private key closely, as sender authenticity and non-repudiation are based on the signer having sole access to his private key. A Certification Authority, who confirms and verifies the identity of an individual before issuing a certificate, certifies the key pair. This forms the 'Digital Identity' for that individual. The certificate issued is called the 'Digital Certificate'.
There are a few important characteristics of these key pairs. They are mathematically related to each other, it is impossible to calculate one key from the other. Therefore, the private key cannot be compromised through knowledge of the associated public key. Second, each key in the key pair performs the inverse function of the other. What one key does, only the other can undo. The private key is used for signing and decrypting a message or a document while the public key is used to verify or encrypt.
There are 7 basic steps that are taken in this process:
Step 1
An Individual applies to Certification Authority for Digital Certificate.
Step 2
CA proofs and identifies the individual and issues Digital Certificate.
Step 3
CA publishes Certificate to Repository.
Step 4
Individual digitally signs electronic message with Private Key to ensure Sender Authenticity, Message Integrity and Non-Repudiation and sends the message.
Step 5
The receiving party receives message, verifies Digital Signature with the individual's Public
Key, and goes to Repository to check status and validity of Individual's Certificate.
Step 6
Repository returns results of status check on Individual's Certificate to verifying party.
Step 7
Digital Certificates
There is a great need for imporved cyber-security in regards to electronic signatures. Higher education is one of the areas in which digital signature technology would greatly reduce the risks of attacks, viruses, and spam that colleges and universities face on a daily basis. Not only does this protect information handled online, but it reduces paper waste.
Using PKI technology, digital signature software offers unique solutions to real problems.
With extensive deployment in the federal government and among notable industry giants, a sound foothold in higher education, and significant new developments.