E-Lock Technologies' Assured Office enables organizations, their customers and partners to sign and approve documents electronically and securely, through the application of PKI based Digital signatures. Assured Office efficiently manages all your signing needs through automated features and wizards. Digital signatures provide an electronic means to sign documents and web content, however the real significance lies in how these signatures are used within business processes. Assured Office is the only product, which adds value to digital signatures by providing features consistent with the business need of an organization.

Business Need: Assured Office is an off-the-shelf product, which immediately integrates within your existing workflow. It takes into consideration all aspects of corporate approval systems and efficiently manages all these.

Approval Management: Today's on-line business approval processes involve more than just digital signatures to documents. In approval systems, it is essential that documents created or authored need pass through pre-defined hierarchy for approval of contents. Assured Office allows the application of policies to such documents, which enforce that the document be digitally signed only in the hierarchical sequence specified by an organization. This ensures that authorized personnel sign, depending on levels of authority or as per pre-determined business procedure.

Multiple Signatures: Many business documents especially business contracts need to be signed by more than one party. To make it legally viable, all parties need to sign the exact contents of the document. With Assured Office, multiple people can sign and approve the same document. An audit trial is also maintained which helps track approvals to the document. This audit trail creates accountability for each person in the signing process and serves as powerful non-repudiation tool. All signatures on the document can be independently verified. Any change to the content of the document will invalidate the previous signature.

Restricted Access to high value documents: For confidentiality, access to contents of high-value business documents such as financial reports or Non Disclosure Agreements need to be restricted to authorized personnel only. With Assured Office documents can be encrypted for specified people, allowing only these people to view the contents.

Time-Bound Signatures: Many business documents are time sensitive and the time of signing is very essential to the business process such as in the case of submission of tenders and quotations. Assured Office allows for time stamping of documents at the time of signing. This can be enforced using policies and can be used for audit within the business process.

Electronic representation of handwritten signatures: The representation of handwritten signatures provides only decorative value to documents without adding any business merit. Assured Office binds handwritten signatures to digital signatures, providing ease of recognition as well as trust and security to the document.

Security Policies: Policies define and enforce certain organizational procedure when users perform security operations like signing, encryption or validation. For example a policy can enforce that a document be signed only in a particular sequence depending on levels of authority. Or a policy can dictate that high-value information needs to be encrypted in addition to being digitally signed. No matter how they are used, Assured Offices' unique security policies can enforce that your standard business procedure is always implemented in the course of daily operations without compromising on trust and security.

Features: Businesses are being migrated on-line at a never increasing speed. In keeping with this pace, it becomes difficult to adopt complex new technologies. Assured Office makes this shift from paper to on-line business seamless and transparent to the user. It provides several functions to make signing and encryption operations simple and easy to use.

Signing / Encryption Wizard: Assured Office provides various Digital Signature features in a Wizard format. This guides the users through the complex world of digital signatures without compromising security or trust. Organizations can quickly migrate to the new business world without any specialized training of their personnel.

Signing / Encryption User Profiles: Users can create individual profiles for signing or encryption operations. Whenever they need to perform routine operations, they can access these profiles, which store all their settings and preferences. This helps them convert repetitive tasks into "one-click" processes.

Right-Click Signing/Encryption Operations: Assured Office integrates seamlessly into the Windows environment. This allows users to "right-click" and performs signing and encryption operations right from their desktop or windows explorer.

Batch Signing of files: Assured Office's Batch signing capability makes bulk signing quick and effortless and minimizes the time involved in routine signing tasks. This feature is particularly useful where several business documents require an authorized signature. The traditional paper based method would require that he put his signature separately on each document even if they were routine in nature. Assured Office speeds up this process and allows for several such files to be selected and digitally signed in one go.