ARX (Algorithmic Research) completes integration of CoSign with Laserfiche Rio, a complete ECM solution, to guarantee the integrity of documents and ensure signer authenticity.

August 19, 2008 – ARX announced today that its CoSign® digital signature (standard electronic signature) solution is available for Laserfiche’s new enterprise content management (ECM) solution, Rio.

“Rio provides a complete document management solution for the enterprise from a single vendor, and it is very important for our customers to be able to easily add to their solution to meet their specific business needs,” said Laserfiche PDP Manager, Alex Wilson. “We are very pleased that ARX, which make a truly excellent digital signature solution, has already announced compatibility with our new system.”

ARX is a member of the Laserfiche Professional Developer Partnership™ (PDP) Program. CoSign for Rio provides Rio users with an integrated solution for electronic signature of documents within applications such as Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, InfoPath® and Adobe Acrobat®. Digital signature solutions allow organizations to replace handwritten signatures, sealing documents with legally-binding signatures as well as saving the costs and time associated with paper-based processes.

“CoSign’s tight integration with Rio builds on the complete ECM solution Rio offers by delivering to users a turnkey digital signature solution. With CoSign and Rio, users guarantee the signer’s identity and intent, and ensure the data integrity of all the documents they handle,” said ARX Vice President of Business Development, Americas, John Marchioni. “The fact that Rio is so complete and easy to acquire is a big win for us, as we know the customer has everything they need to take full advantage of CoSign in their ECM environment.”

Laserfiche Rio (www.laserfiche.com/rio) is a powerful, complete solution that is straightforward to purchase, deploy, extend and manage. Designed for larger organizations, Laserfiche Rio brings together several modules of the Laserfiche content management suite in a new format that simplifies purchasing and planning while speeding enterprise deployment.

With Rio, organizations have the flexibility to reconfigure their systems to accommodate changing requirements, project scopes and business conditions, without extensive development, programming or staff effort. The Rio system includes information management, document imaging, DoD-certified records management, business process management, system activity monitoring and Web publishing modules in a single procurement.

Laserfiche (www.laserfiche.com) creates simple and elegant document management solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, Laserfiche has helped more than 25,000 organizations—including state and local governments, financial services firms and healthcare organizations—streamline processes for managing documents, records and workflow.

CoSign is ARX’s digital signature solution that allows users to digitally sign multiple document types, records, files, forms, and electronic transactions from their desktop or via a zero-footprint technology using any Web browser. By using standard digital signature technology, CoSign produces a portable signature record for every signature it captures. The portable signature format – CoSign®PSF™ enables partners, customers, and prospects to retain and verify the proof of identity, intent, and transaction integrity over the life of the record without any proprietary software. CoSign signatures are being used by hundreds of thousands of users in Enterprise, B2B and B2C processes, to learn why please see our white papers and product details at www.arx.com/products/cosign_moreinfo.php

ARX is a global provider of digital signature solutions for the life sciences, healthcare, government, engineering, and manufacturing organizations. ARX has over 20 years of experience assisting life sciences, healthcare, governmental, engineering, and manufacturing businesses cost effectively to secure, streamline, and scale their business processes and transactions. The company specializes in enabling organizations of any size to scale digital signature and security solutions at the lowest TCO while retaining proper control mechanisms that are required by legislation, regulation and industry best practice. For more information, please visit www.arx.com