Your manager's absence no longer keeps you hanging, whether for a holiday or a conference in the few places that require that signature. Digital signatures eliminate the need for traveling with stacks upon stacks of paperwork and are signed off and resting in a drawer at the click of a button.

Cost-wise, it is common to even find such companies able to afford doing business with little or no expenditures on the use of ink, paper, printing and scanning, shipping or traveling.

There are minimal delays experienced, and thus this improves quality of work as digital signatures allow optimization of all processes and activities. Document management and document tracking has been simplified to require less time and less human effort.

Digital signature makes it easier to sign a document from any location for the customer or the person required to sign. Customers do not have to go to the bank or office making it easier for sales persons.

With reference to signatures, safety and authentication comes first in that order. There is even less likelihood that the document will be reproduced or tampered with with the use of a digital signature. Digital-signed signature makes it impossible to deny the fact that the signature was indeed authentic.

The use of digital signatures is reliable and guarantees that the signature will undergo checks. This can be presented in court just like any other hard copy that has been signed.

Digital signatures hold acceptance for use even in the years to come. ETSI PDF Advanced signatures (Pades), which incorporates geolocation is other relevant factors, extend the validity of its signature formats into years to come.

As corporate and business entities become more aware of their impacts on the ecosystem, digital signatures is a notch higher in tackling the challenges of waste management and conservation of the environment.