Going Green with Digital Delivery

With growing awareness about the need to save the forests and enterprises becoming more environmentally friendly, the commercial sector is no longer isolated from the green movement. Migration from paper to digital delivery is a trend that is catching on fast amongst organizations, and many have started to identify multiple benefits associated with paper suppression.

Secure Electronic Notification and Delivery (SEND) is therefore becoming increasingly popular with businesses. This email-based alternative to paper correspondence allows organizations to distribute electronic documents to customers and enables them to interact with the dynamic PDF document. Customers are able to verify information, pay bills and even sign contracts without having to log in or print a document.

This electronic notification and delivery method also addresses digital identity management issues by providing absolute proof of when, by whom and from which IP address the document was opened. This allows companies to meet compliance objectives and be aware that the document was received and opened only by the intended recipient.

However, in order to make such electronic notification safe and secure, organizations should adopt appropriate authentication software capable of protecting confidential and personally identifiable information by encrypting PDF files which contain sensitive data.

Features and Benefits of Secure Electronic Notification and Delivery Solutions:

a) Personalized and Secure Password – Users can open their certified and secure statements by typing in a password known only to them.

b) Strong Authentication – Provides user with the ability to authenticate, decrypt, view and store their confidential documents on their desktop.

c) Secure e-Document Signing - When combined with the digital signing capability, users can enjoy the ability to securely sign any e-document without ever having to print the document. This also delivers audit-quality signatures that will verify that a signature was valid at the time of signing, months or years after the signing event.

d) Efficient, Cost-Effective and Environmentally Friendly – Secure Electronic Notification and Delivery solutions give organizations the opportunity to provide additional security for customer email correspondence while improving their environmental footprint. Such a solution can also save money by eliminating paper, printing, postage, and operational costs associated with paper and traditional mail.

Whether electronic notification and delivery systems can completely replace traditional methods is a matter of debate, especially when we consider the varying levels of computer literacy amongst people. However, the immense benefits offered by such a solution cannot be denied. Therefore paper suppression and digital delivery are here to stay!