Take the Next Step Toward Electronic Signatures

摘要

When Thomas Fredell read about passage of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000 (called the E-Sign Act) nearly two years ago, he expected to see e-signatures take off Twenty one months later, Fredell, chief development officer at Intralinks, a New York-based collaborative technology firm, acknowledges, "The reality is, it hasn't happened." Intralinks provides collaborative workspaces for such online tasks as conducting clinical drug trials and processing syndicated loans, including exchanges of contracts. What better place to deploy e-signatures? "We've thought about it, we've put together proto- types and we plan to provide electronic signatures," Fredell says. "The main questions for us are, what is the client-side footprint for the technology, and how easy is it for our customers to use? The technology out there is pretty good, but the client-side footprint is typically heavy."