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Why 80% of You Shouldn’t Care What Kind of E-Signature You Use
The term “e-signature” has become quite familiar. Today, most everyone has heard of an electronic signature and has experienced the convenience it provides. So, are e-signatures really that simple? For most of the population — yes, they are. Efficient, Convenient … Unregulated Electronic signatures are exploding in popularity because they’re
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How to Avoid the Trap of Certain (Unnamed) E-Signature Vendors
E-signatures are supposed to make life easier for companies. They’re supposed to save businesses money. They’re supposed to carry the same legal and compliance weight as pen and paper. So why, then, are so many e-signature vendors, including some of the most well-known, failing at all of these key
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New Digital Signature Regs Take Effect This Week In Europe
This Friday, new regulations will take effect in Europe that could have significant implications for organizations that do business on both sides of the Atlantic. Called the eIDAS Regulations, they set forth rules for digital signatures and the way they are used.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Tracking Sales Docs
SpringCM, which provides document and content management software for Salesforce users, just released Track It for Deal Visibility, a mobile app which enables users to track and understand the status of sales documents.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Windows 10 Phone Upgrades
To close the year, Microsoft announced a number of upgrades to improve the user experience on Windows 10 phones. Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team, unveiled multiple Office improvements for Apple devices and Skype for Business for Android.
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Doc Mgt Roll-up: Still Dreaming of the Paperless Office
We've heard about the promise of the paperless office for years now, with little to no evidence of the promise translating to reality. But recent research by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) shows that maybe, just maybe, things are starting to change.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Plenty of Upgrades, Plenty of Paper
If you can't get it right the first time ... upgrade. That seems to be the mantra for tech companies, including Microsoft. According to a blog post by Arpan Shah, senior director for the Office 365 team, Microsoft released 450 upgrades for Office 365 in the past year.
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What If the Founding Fathers Had E-Signatures?
Say what you want about the merits of e-signatures. But in this hypothetical case, one thing is certain: had they been around in the summer of 1776, they would have changed the course of history — if not for the United States, at least for John Hancock.
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Maximize Your SharePoint Investment with E-Signatures
You’ll be paperless. Or will you? It’s a promise many enterprises make to themselves. Why? Because paper kinda slows you down: HR, your customers, your vendors, compliance, engineering specks. All experience setbacks when glued to paper processes.
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Simple Lessons on E-Signatures [Infographic]
In the past few months, we've heard a lot of speculation why e-signature software has been so slow to gain traction — from legal and security issues to worker resistance and misunderstandings about how to use them.
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You Can't Create Digital Businesses Without E-Signatures
Two converging trends — the growth of the mobile workforce and digital business processes — are giving a big boost to the e-signature market. That's the word from Michael Laurie, co-founder and VP of product strategy at Silanis, an electronic signature provider.
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Are E-Signatures the Missing Links in Paperless Offices?
The paperless office is still a dream. While there are plenty of possible reasons, the most likely involve a combination of technology and management — and, some claim, the failure of even organizations with enterprise content management (ECM) in place to adopt an e-signature strategy.
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Adobe Acquires EchoSign, Adds eSignatures to Document Services
Today we all moved one step closer to the elusive paperless office with Adobe’s (news, site) announcement of its newest acquisition -- electronic signature provider EchoSign (news, site ).
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EchoSign, SugarCRM Allow Signing in the Cloud #scon11
Occasionally, even those operating in the cloud have to concern themselves with real-world trivialities such as signing legal contracts. EchoSign and SugarCRM (news, site) just made that a little easier for their users. SugarCRM + EchoSign = Integrated E-Signatures At this week’s SugarCon 2011, SugarCRM and
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