Marrickville Council Adopts CoSign Digital Signatures

A leading provider of digital signature (standard electronic signature) solutions, ARX (Algorithmic Research), and TME Digital Signature, its Australian/New Zealand partner, have implemented a CoSign® digital signature solution at the local government council in the Inner West region of Sydney, Marrickville Council.

Marrickville Council relied, previous to CoSign's implementation, heavily on paper in its memo approval processes. The Council creates a significant number of memos each week focusing on a range of activities including: planning, building, land, HR and financial issues, each of which requires numerous signatures for authorizations. The Council, as it was both a time consuming and costly process, saw significant value in deploying a digital signature solution that would allow them to break the chain of printing, signing, and then scanning the signed documents back into an electronic format.

Manager of Information Systems, Marrickville Council, Carlos Loureiro, explained: "With its off-the-shelf deployment and intuitive use, CoSign will help us consolidate and advance our business processes". "It is a tremendous benefit that the time and money the Council saves on process implementation can be rededicate to its ratepayers."

Marrickville Council, by employing CoSign, will be able to reduce their workflow process to a matter of minutes, from several hours per memo authorization. Their elimination of the need to print documentation for signing purposes, in addition, will significantly reduce their paper-related expenses.

COO, ARX, Ilan Patashnik, said: "Our work with Marrickville Council provides us with an important opportunity to highlight the benefits CoSign's advanced technology has to offer to local government agencies searching for a way to transform and streamline their business processes".