It’s finally time to go paperless. The pandemic has forced organizations to change the way they work. Tedious paper and in-person processes are out. Digitization and e-signatures are a must.
Now, the ability to do business remotely is a necessity, said David Gaudio, Senior Content Writer at OneSpan said during a recent virtual workshop. “The anywhere economy is here to stay,” he said. “E-signatures have emerged as an essential technology that helps to digitize manual processes.”
Customers will have a better experience if they can sign anywhere, anytime and on any device, said Gaudio. Eliminating paper processes also improves business productivity and efficiency. That’s why an e-signatures solution is an important element of digital transformation, he noted.
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Sometimes small changes make a huge difference – like replacing manual processes with digital tech like e-signatures. According to the Electronic Signature & Records Association, companies using this technology have seen an 83 per cent performance improvement in getting approvals, and an 86 per cent savings in document costs.
E-signatures may not yet be the standard when people are asked to sign a document, but in an increasing number of cases where someone would personally sign something “wet” with pen and ink, an e-signature is more than enough.
Many historians trace the signature back to a Sumerian clay tablet from around 3100 BC bearing the markings of the scribe Gar Ama. However, the standard signature marker known to people in the modern world has its true origin in an act of the English Parliament of 1677 that made the signature the accepted marker it is today.