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What to Consider 

What to Consider From a Technical Perspective.

Your organization has spent millions on information technology to move business processes online only for the electronic process to break down every time a signature is required in a document. You know that electronic signatures provide the missing link and have the power to unleash the full ROI potential of your IT investments. But for a solution to deliver long-term results, it must do more than provide a stove-pipe solution. It must scale across your enterprise and different lines of business, while meeting compliance requirements and keeping costs down to a minimum.

As the pioneers of electronic signature technology, Silanis offers a risk-free solution.

Mapping Your Requirements

From an IT perspective, the single most important issue to consider is how to map your compliance and business requirements to the right solution. Failure to choose the right approach can increase the risk of non-compliance and frustrate users because it's too difficult to use.

By choosing Silanis as partner, you’ll tap into our 17 years of experience translating requirements into real-world offerings, enabling you and your organization to focus on your core competencies. Our professional services team works with you to detail your legal, compliance, workflow and IT requirements, and ensure tight integration with your technology investments.

Supporting Your IT Systems

As you consider implementing electronic signatures, you may conclude that that your disconnected legacy systems are not ready for e-signatures and that you require a more sophisticated infrastructure. The reality, however, is that you already have everything you need to get started today.

Silanis’ solutions were designed to support the most widely used business applications and tools. Your existing MS Word, MS Excel and Adobe PDF documents and XHTML and IBM forms can quickly be e-signature-enabled.

To authenticate users, our solutions can be combined with a 3rd party PKI system, digital certificates, smart cards and biometrics devices. However, if you don’t have any of these technologies in place, our solutions will create a self-signed, digital certificate – the equivalent of a person vouching for their own identity -  to reference in the electronically signed document.

What’s more, documents signed electronically with Silanis’ solutions can be securely brought into your existing workflow, content management or document storage systems without any additional effort on your part. Our solutions produce a secure, standalone document that can easily be stored, emailed and printed without jeopardizing the security or authenticity of the document or signature.

Future-Proofing Your Investment

With thousands of signing processes throughout your organization, electronic signatures are truly an enterprise technology. Failure to consider applications beyond your initial project will lead to silos and a lack of interoperability amongst your different business processes.

Silanis is the only electronic signature provider to offer an enterprise platform that scales quickly and cost-effectively beyond your initial volume estimates and across your different lines of business and customer-acquisition channels.

Equally important, our solutions sit within the four walls of your organization so that you maintain control of your business processes and documents at all times, while providing you with the flexibility to the modify the solution, as needed, as your organization’s business and compliance requirements change.

Other Requirements

Business Requirements
  • Supporting your Diverse Business Processes
  • Encouraging High User Adoption
  • Trusting a Solution That Works
Legal Requirements
  • Complying with Laws and Regulations
  • Creating Strong Electronic Evidence
  • Reproducing the Electronic evidence