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The benefits of going paperless with digital signatures

Written by Pem Guerry | 7/15/10 12:22 PM
The green businesses movement has certainly taken hold over the last decade. Until recently taking an operation wholly or partially paperless has met with varying degrees of success. many high By going paperless  a business at least in part can join the going green effort and reduce costs.
                
A business can save massive amounts of paper through electronic documentation. Energy savings are just as important and can be found by minimizing the use of print and copy machines. Supporting the green movement helps the environment and shows clients that your business cares about affecting it in a positive way.                
                
Traditionally businesses have spent countless dollars time and space maintaining paper business records.  Recently more and more business owners have cut costs and improved their operational efficiency by going paperless.  If this is something you've considered you may want to look into ways to incorporate digital signature technology to further reduce paper waste.    
                
By using esignature software or digital signatures you can now know that the documents you electronically sign are trustworthy and are an authenticated paperless transaction. Digital signatures are inserted into the document and easily travel electronically to their destination assuring the sender the signee data integrity and overall trust. Digital signature solutions can be seamlessly integrated with any business application without needing to change the existing workflow.    
                

Benefits                    

  • Signer Authenticity                
  • Reduced Processing Time                
  • Reduced Operational Costs                
  • Security and Confidentiality for Documents and Data                
  • Enhanced Process Efficiency and Optimization                
  • Speedy Decision-making and Approval Process                
  • Non-repudiation and Integrity                              

Digital signature software can now meet the demands of large    transaction-driven businesses that currently rely on manual or semi-automated financial and operational signing processes. Whether the signing processes are performed on a daily weekly  monthly or yearly basis digital signatures can now be trusted.    
                
Until now standard e-signature solutions have focused on low risk transactions and low volume applications. The next-generation solution 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.