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Home > Drug News > ARX and Hummingbird Ltd. Partner to Offer CoSign™ Electronic Signature Solutions
ARX and Hummingbird Ltd. Partner to Offer CoSign™ Electronic Signature Solutions
Algorithmic Research (ARX), a worldwide provider of electronic signature and data security solutions has partnered with Hummingbird Ltd., a global provider of integrated enterprise content management solutions.
(PRWEB) December 8, 2005 -- Algorithmic Research (ARX), a leading worldwide provider of electronic signatures and data security solutions today announced a business partnership with Hummingbird Ltd., a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) and network connectivity solutions.
The ARX / Hummingbird partnership provides customers with an integrated solution that enables Hummingbird Enterprise™ users to electronically sign documents within applications such as Microsoft Word, InfoPath, Excel and Adobe Acrobat. Using electronic signatures, organizations may replace handwritten signatures, sealing documents with legally-binding signatures as well as saving the costs and time associated with paper-based processes.
"CoSign's tight integration with Hummingbird Enterprise offers users a turnkey electronic signature solution that for the first time enables them to guarantee the data integrity and signer authenticity of all the documents they handle," says Noam Ziv, VP of Business Development, ARX.
"Organizational concerns relating to cost, time and security, typically associated with paper-based signatures and hardcopy documents, result in a low TCO, virtually zero management, zero logistic penalties and a speedy ROI," adds Ziv.
Combining CoSign’s electronic signatures with PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), a mature and proven technology, ensures signer authenticity, data integrity and non-repudiation of documents generated within Hummingbird Enterprise. Compliance with worldwide legal and security regulations, such as the FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11 for the Bio-Pharma market, HIPPA for the healthcare industry, and others, is also ensured.
CoSign electronic signatures offer users a unique feature - CoSign Worldwide verifiable signatures. With CoSign, signed documents may be sent to partners and customers, allowing them to validate the signatures within applications such as Microsoft Word, InfoPath, Excel and Adobe Acrobat without the installation of any 3rd party applications.
"We have seen a growing customer demand for electronic signature solutions initiated both by legislation requirements as well as the need to save on time and costs related to printing, signing and mailing documents," says Tony Heywood, Senior VP EMEA, Hummingbird. "The addition of CoSign to the Hummingbird partner portfolio of solutions ideally positions us to meet this demand."
CoSign-enabled organizations include the EFTA (European Free Trade Association) Surveillance Authority, which uses CoSign to digitally-sign documents and e-mails exchanged with external parties.
The EFTA Surveillance Authority already has in place a case handling system based on a Hummingbird document-management solution, but found itself printing, signing and mailing documents, due to the need for a signature.
The EFTA Surveillance Authority plan to eliminate those hurdles and save the costs associated with all the paperwork by using CoSign digital signatures. This solution ensures signer authenticity, and the data integrity and non-repudiation of the documents generated using Hummingbird Enterprise.
About CoSign™
CoSign, is ARX's, non-forgeable, simple-to-use, digital-signature solution that delivers an innovative way for electronically signing documents, files, forms and transactions. Based on its standard PKI technology, CoSign guarantees signer authenticity, data integrity, and non-repudiation of documents and transactions. With its unique centralized approach, built-in integration with the organization's existing User-Management System and wide 3rd party application support, CoSign eliminates additional overhead costs.
About Algorithmic Research
Algorithmic Research (ARX), is a leading provider of digital-signature and data-security solutions. The company offers a wide range of high-end and state of the art products and services designed to simplify, secure, and accelerate electronic transactions. ARX specializes in designing and implementing easy to use, simple to deploy, digital signature and security solutions, combining software and hardware products, for small, medium and large computing environments. ARX has more than 18 years of experience in helping financial institutions, governmental organizations and commercial sectors to secure and streamline their processes and transactions.
About Hummingbird Enterprise (tm)
Hummingbird Enterprise provides an integrated platform for enterprise content management that provides global organizations with solutions to manage business interaction information such as documents, records, virtual deal room exchanges, discussions, e-mail or financial data - linking business processes, information and people. Hummingbird solutions are designed as modular applications that are fully interoperable with each other, enabling customers to incrementally build an enterprise content management solution to meet their evolving information needs in a cost effective manner.
About Hummingbird
Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions. The Company's enterprise software solutions fall into two principal categories: enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and network connectivity solutions. Hummingbird's ECM solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition, thereby enabling organizations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation. The network connectivity solutions provide a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system.
Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs over 1,500 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90 percent of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through an Alliance Network of partners and resellers.
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