The recent pas­sage of the Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Gov­ern­ment Trans­ac­tions) Bill 2017 in NSW Par­lia­ment are proof e-sig­na­tures are fast becom­ing a key dri­ver in the way Aus­tralian cit­i­zens inter­act with both gov­ern­ment and the pri­vate sec­tor.

A new free app, Adobe Scan turns your mobile device into an intel­li­gent scan­ning and text-recog­ni­tion tool, tak­ing doc­u­ment cre­ation to the next lev­el.

Procur­ing the right prod­ucts and ser­vices is vital for busi­ness suc­cess, but for many organ­i­sa­tions, pur­chas­ing is still mired in admin­is­tra­tive over­heads and lengthy approvals. Stream­lin­ing autho­ri­sa­tion process­es and improv­ing con­tract vis­i­bil­i­ty, e-Sig­na­ture tech­nol­o­gy cre­ates a user-friend­ly expe­ri­ence for the pro­cure­ment team and exter­nal ven­dors.

For the Strate­gic IT busi­ness line, switch­ing to e-sig­na­tures could cause a cost-sav­ing cas­cade through­out your busi­ness and improve inter­nal process­es.

It’s more than three decades since we first began to imag­ine a paper­less home and office, and more than two since the inter­net afford­ed the poten­tial for dig­i­tal trans­ac­tions to stream­line busi­ness inter­ac­tions – rel­e­gat­ing paper forms to a thing of the past.

The Adobe eSig­na­tures Aus­tralian Mar­ket Study found that by 2020 Aus­tralians will per­form 100 mil­lion eSig­na­ture trans­ac­tions annu­al­ly.