2011-10-24
Novabase Simplifies with electronic signatures
The digital capture and validation of the customer’s signature are integrated into business processes, allowing them to be completely automated, thereby reducing costs associated with the consumption, transport and archiving of hardcopy documents.
Novabase recently closed a partnership with Softpro, a German company specializing in eSigning solutions. This agreement will reinforce Novabase’s wide range of solutions for the financial services sector by including electronic signatures in business processes.
Computerizing processes boosts organizational efficiency by cutting costs and streamlining information access and processing times. Currently, this approach runs into obstacles when documents such as subscription forms and transaction vouchers must be printed and signed by customers.
eSigning is a process that allows a signature to be digitally captured and validated, eliminating the need for printing.
It offers a high degree of security, since it is based on biometric data collected along with the signature’s image. The signature data are encrypted and saved along with the document’s content. A timestamp and an integrity value (hash) is also created and saved at the time of signing.
The digital capture and validation of the customer’s signature are integrated into business processes, allowing them to be completely automated, thereby reducing costs associated with the consumption, transport and archiving of hardcopy documents.
Novabase Executive Pedro Chagas says that “this agreement with Softpro, the world market leader in signature management, will give us an integrated offering in