Overview

See how to easily and securely expedite e-signing documents in the cloud

OpenText™ Extended ECM offers enterprise-grade digital signatures within business processes to allow employees and third parties to sign and approve documents in a fast, compliant and hassle-free way.

Why choose Digital Signatures?

  • Digital signatures for any business process

    Implement secure document approvals within any Extended ECM or enterprise application business process through integration with OpenText™ Core Signature Service.

  • Comprehensive lifecycle management

    Ensure both approved content and the signature process are protected by best-in-class information governance practices.

How Digital Signatures can benefit business

Discover the advantages of using OpenText Digital Signatures.

  • Accelerate approval processes

    Reduce the time and costs associated with paper-based or manual signature processes.

  • Maintain security, authenticity and reliability

    See who viewed, opened and signed documents to ensure integrity with a full audit trail in case of legal disputes.

  • Support stringent compliance requirements

    Encrypt information and validate signing actions with hardware-stored digital certificates and reporting to support compliance with ESIGN, UETA and eIDAS regulations.

  • Design flexible workflows

    Use simple drag and drop functionality to incorporate digital signatures into workflows customized to suit business requirements.

  • Harness the agility of hybrid cloud

    Rapidly modernize content management and greatly improve organizational agility.

Features

  • Automated template creation

    Expedites document preparation for signatures with pre-configured form templates. Automatically fills in important fields such as names, date and numbers before sending the documents out for signature using process-related metadata.

  • Defined signing orders

    Allows staff to define whether one or more recipients need to sign the prepared document and the order in which signatures are required.

  • Ad hoc and preconfigured approval processes

    Allows initiating ad hoc signature requests via DocuSign or Core Signature Service with a few clicks without the need for a workflow. Pre-configured Business Process Library applications can be used to send documents to internal and external parties.

  • Automated records policies

    Assigns retention, archival and disposition schedules to signed agreements using metadata, such as contract end date, while storing the related signature logs and signed envelopes.

  • Audit trail reports

    Provides complete audit trails in signature logs with details, such as name, signature date and time, IP address of the device used to sign and a secure hash algorithm to verify signature authenticity.

  • DocuSign integration

    Includes out-of-the-box integration that supports both cloud and on-premises DocuSign solutions.

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Digital Signature resources

Automate contract management with Extended ECM and Salesforce integration

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Why offering customers more choice is vital

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Obtaining digital signatures via a document workflow

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Extended ECM for Contract Management

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Digitally sign documents with OpenText™ Core Signature

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DocuSign integration to Extended ECM workflow

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Put the cloud to work for you—your way

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OpenText Extended ECM

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