From Filing Cabinet to Cloud: e-Signatures Speed Turnaround
In the business world, time has always been a valuable resource—but in today’s hyper-connected digital economy, time is the ultimate currency. Delays in approvals, contract signings, or document reviews can derail deals, stall projects, and frustrate clients. The solution? Moving from slow, paper-based processes to the instant, digital world of electronic signatures. For decades, filing cabinets represented the heart of record-keeping. Every signed agreement, employment form, and supplier contract sat in a manila folder, locked away in an office. While this system once worked, it was far from efficient. Retrieving a document meant physically searching, mailing contracts to different parties could take days or weeks, and tracking multiple signatures involved endless phone calls and follow-ups. Today, organizations are trading in filing cabinets for secure cloud-based systems and replacing ink signatures with e-signatures. The result? Dramatically faster turnaround times, reduced operati...