Deploying a Workflow Digital Signature Solution for Security & Compliance

Digital signatures are a very important part of Workflow and BPM Software.  More and more offices are going paperless and want the ability to digitally sign webforms and eforms and also digitally sign PDFs that are created as part of a workflow application.  Thanks to the integration between ProcessMaker and Elock, this type of workflow digital signature is now possible.

The workflow digital signature plug-in for the ProcessMaker workflow suite allows enterprise users to digitally sign web forms and produce PDFs with digital signatures.  These digitally signed PDFs are secure thanks to 128 bit encryption and SHA technology.

How a workflow digital signature workflow integration can help you

The business case for a workflow digital signature inside a process is an easy one to justify.  More and more businesses and business interactions are moving towards the concept of the paperless office.  However, these same businesses still need to make sure that approvals are secure.  Imagine a credit application in a credit application workflow process.  Certainly, a bank that is automating this workflow in a BPM suite will want to deploy digital signatures to ensure that when a credit official approves a transaction, the bank can later go back and audit the approval and be sure that it was in fact the approval for the correct transaction.  In other words, what if the official thinks he/she is approving a $10,000 loan when in reality someone has fraudulently changed the system to reflect an approval for a $1,000,000 loan.  This represents a very serious risk for the bank.  Using a secure digital infrastructure solution within the BPM suite will ensure that the transaction that gets approved is truly the transaction that was performed. 

You can read more about our Elock Mobisigner plug-in for ProcessMaker here.

The video and screenshots here will better explain how a workflow digital signature can be deployed in your workflow of bpm software.