[COLOGNE] - 2007-09-27: SOFTPRO is proud to announce that its new "SignPad" signature tablet has received the “Innovation Award” at this year’s international "DMS", Europe’s leading trade show for document and enterprise content management hosted by the Koelnmesse. All registered visitors of the event were provided the opportunity to select their favorite innovation among 14 nominees. The trade show organizer reported a very active participation at the election for the award in 2007. "SignPad" is enables the capture of characteristics of handwritten signatures in a trustworthy manner – capturing both the static image, and dynamic (biometric) signals of a person’s signature. The device is a Japanese-German joint development of the companies Wacom and Softpro.
Visitors of the show were extremely impresed by the extraordinary quality of the signing tablet. The display of tablet was described by participants as "sharp, fast and very accurate". Softpro’s popular "SignDoc" software solutions for paperless e-signing are seamlessly integrated with the new SignPad to provide a unique and innovative complete e-signing solution.
Although the tablet will not officially be released to the market before the end of the year, thousands of devices have already been sold to financial institutions in Germany alone. "We are really eager to see these tablets replacing the compromise solutions that we currently have in place", said one representative of one of the largest German savings banks recently.
Other winners of the 2007 DMS innovation award are T-Systems Enterprise Service GmbH with an enterprise search solution and PDF Tools AG with a tool to convert portable document files (PDF)in to the format PDF/A. The option to vote for an award at this show was started in 2006.
The 2007 "DMS" show had a record attendance, attracting more than 20.000 visitors. 385 exhibitors displayed their solutions in hall 8 alone. Softpro demonstrated the SignPad to overwhelming resonance at the "Voice of Information"(VOI) booth, a platform of the association for organization and information systems.
The SignPad will also be demonstrated at the Systems in Munich (October 23 to 26) at the TeleTrust booth (hall B3, stand 123) in the IT-Security area. Softpro will also showcase the SignPad at three upcoming shows of BAI in the US between October 2007 and February 2008: In San Diego at "BAI Combatting Payments and Check Fraud Conference" (booth 110) on October 23 and 24, in Las Vegas at "BAI Retail Delivery Show" (booth 1269) from November 13 to 15 and in Dallas at "BAI Transpay" from February 5 to 7.
About SOFTPRO
The SOFTPRO GmbH is a world leader in developing and marketing products and solutions for digital capture, management and verification of handwritten signatures.
The fastest growing line of business are solutions for E-Signing - in particular biometric signatures. SOFTPRO is offering E-Signing software - from the SDK (SignWare) via desktop clients (SignDoc) to a complete platform for Web-based signing (SignDoc Web). The products support a wide range of devices for signature capturing - from basic pen pads up to Tablet PCs. This can lower your costs, accelerate business processes, eliminate errors and protect documents against manipulation. E-Signing with SOFTPRO is environmentally friendly and thus supports Green IT initiatives and Corporate Social responsibility programs.
The second major division of SOFTPRO is the detection of fraud through automated comparison of signatures. This comparison is primarily used for checks. SOFTPRO’s Automatic Signature Verification is also used to secure the postal ballot (e.g. in the United States and the United Kingdom). Additional fraud analysis tools may be added to the verification process. The results of these complex tests are analyzed, weighted and presented as a holistic risk assessment.
SOFTPRO solutions are currently used in 31 countries on five continents. Ten of the world's 25 largest banks are SOFTPRO customers, as well as insurance, retail and telecommunications companies, public administration, the energy and the health sector.
The parent company of the SOFTPRO group is the SOFTPRO GmbH founded 1983 in Boeblingen near Stuttgart. Four subsidiaries are based in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in India and in Singapore. Additional representations operate in Brazil and Lebanon. The group currently employs around sixty people. SOFTPRO's software is developed "made in Germany".
Please contact us for additional information:
SOFTPRO GmbH
Wilhelmstrasse 34
71034 Boeblingen
Germany
Phone: +49 7031 6606 0
Fax: +49 7031 6606 66
Joerg-M. Lenz
Manager PR
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