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Tuesday, November 16, 1999
Interlink, CIC, Bring E-Signature Technology To Acrobat
Steve Gold, Newsbytes
CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 NOV 16 (NB). Hard on the heels of
its recent biometric developments for Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] Office
users, Interlink Electronics has now announced plans to develop a
biometric system for Adobe [NASDAQ:ADBE] Acrobat users.
Interlink says it is working with Communication Intelligence Corp.
(CIC) to create an integrated electronic signature technology for use
with Adobe Acrobat 4.0 documents.
Using Interlink's new ePad pen input device with CIC's Sign-it
signature software, the system is said to provide a means to capture
electronic signatures within Acrobat 4.0 documents on networks,
corporate Intranets, and over the Internet.
Designed to enable online approvals and facilitate network document
automation, the plan is for the e-signature system to ship during
December at a target price of under $100 per user.
Mike Sullivan, CIC's vice president of business development, said that
the main barrier in business-to-business e-commerce has been the
requirement for signatures, which introduce paper into an otherwise
electronic process.
"This system completely eliminates the need for paper with a return on
investment (ROI) after as few as two to three transactions," he said,
Joel Geraci, Adobe's Acrobat product manager, meanwhile, said that a
growing number of companies are realizing the value of integrating paper
and the Web for increased efficiency and reduced overheads.
"We're pleased that Interlink and CIC have partnered to help Acrobat
4.0 customers leverage the benefits of secure, cost-effective electronic
signatures. As a result, firms will be better able to deploy enterprise
level workflow solutions more quickly and at greater cost savings," he
said.
Sign-it for Adobe Acrobat 4.0 is billed as a next-generation
application that enables Adobe Acrobat PDF (page description format)
documents, the de-facto standard for document exchange, to be used in
secure e-commerce and workflow automation systems by empowering these
documents with an electronic signature.
Using the digital signature component of Acrobat 4.0 PDF documents,
Sign-it binds the electronic signature with the document.
For this reason, CIC says, the electronic signature is only valid
within the document signed with the contents that were approved at the
time of signing and cannot be used in any other document. An optional
upgrade from CIC enables secure biometric authentication of the document
signors.
Interlink's Web site is at interlinkelelectronics.com .
Reported by Newsbytes.com, newsbytes.com .
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