SOFTPRO - Softpro and Wacom: First Customer for the Next Generation Signature Tablet SignPad

SignPad - The LCD Signature Tablet - a collective development of Wacom and Softpro captures changeless and activating (biometric) characteristics of signatures in absolute timeStore this angel in big sizeAs the aboriginal alignment worldwide, the Berliner Sparkasse will acquaint the next bearing signature book called SignPad in their primary action on a ample scale. The SignPad book allows barter of the Berliner Sparkasse to assurance their cyberbanking abstracts and affairs both digitally and securely. The accessory was abnormally developed for the digitizing of handwritten signatures in abutting co-operation with Wacom and Softpro. Beginning in December 2007, all 150 clandestine applicant centers in the branches of the Sparkasse will be able with this new interface device. "Paperless signing" will become a absoluteness if barter assurance on the affectation of the SignPad application Softpro’s arch signature software solution, alleged SignDoc. The Berliner Sparkasse expects will save on the amount of cardboard administration and archiving, as able-bodied as adequate the added functionality of the SignPad.

The SignPad has a cordless, battery-free pen. The signature is captured on a non-reflective 5" TFT LCD. The accessory offers abundant amplitude to baby for best signatures as well, like if some barter may assurance with two surnames. The book affectation is advised to action the aforementioned signing activity as if autograph on paper.

The Berliner Sparkasse absitively to use the SignDoc book from Softpro, the arch band-aid for accurate capturing, administration, and analysis of handwritten signatures in aggregate with the SignPad. Joachim Wangnet, amenable for the activity at the Berliner Sparkasse, is assertive by the SignPad: ”We accept activated altered ascribe devices, but the SignPad has assertive us that signing digitally can be comfortable, robust, defended and cost-effective, all at the aforementioned time. This is why we accept called it.”

The SignPad was primarily developed for all those business processes area harder copies are still accepting printed for the sole purpose of capturing handwritten signatures. Using altered media is costing time and money, and has several aegis loopholes. The book enables a accurate abduction for digitizing handwritten signatures for altered purposes, from the teller, to credibility of sale, and for checkout to self-service terminals.

Peter Sommer, Business Development Manager at Wacom Europe: “When we presented our ancestor at CeBIT this year, we were afflicted by the absolute acknowledgment the book accustomed from the banking community. At Europe’s arch appearance for action agreeable management, DMS, the collective development of Wacom and Softpro won one of awards for addition in a ample company analysis in backward September 2007. We are blessed to be able to present our aboriginal collective applicant for this band-aid with Softpro today.”

Ralph Maute, Product Manager at Softpro: “No amount what accepted you choose, Luminance, contrast, or acceleration of the display, Wacom has developed a artefact that can accomplish all expectations and we are absolutely aflame about the abounding inquiries we accept from all over the apple to acquaint our barter to the book that we bazaar as “SignPad”. Clients from the banking industry in accurate accept commented the architecture as chic and ergonomic. Softpro and Wacom Europe accept been coorperating for several years now. Wacom’s STU-500 is addition highlight in this affiliation and a axiological cornerstone to our approaching success.”

Technical Details of the Next Generation Signature Tablet - SignPad

SignPad appearance a bunched no-reflective TFT LC Display. Users assurance anon on the affectation with a cordless, battery-free pen, absolutely as they would on paper. The affectation comes with a VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels, amplitude x height), which enables accumulated barter to column added agreeable like agreement and conditions, transaction amounts etc., on the affectation while their barter sign. The 5’’ awning is advanced abundant for even continued signatures. Signing on a SignPad book is just as acceptable as autograph on cardboard because of the real-time decision of the signature awning and its paper-like surface. The cogitating affectation has a top adverse ,just like accustomed paper. The SignPad book has an adorable amount for money, durability, and a affectation that does not charge a backlight to accomplish its amazing top contrast.

The book allows capturing both the changeless angel and the activating (biometric) signals of the signature incomparable in above and reliability. While autograph on the display, the sensor captures different biometric advice about the signature, such as time and burden coordinates. The chip digitizer is able of analysis up to 512 altered levels of pressure. The area of the digitizer pen is captured via the XY coordinates with a account resolution of 2540 lpi. The alone burden profile, autograph rhythm, and acceleration advice absorb the different appearance of the signature. As the book delivers an outstanding accurate adverse of captured burden levels in aggregate with a top sampling amount of the captured signature abstracts from the SignPad, it is aswell actual reliable for acceptance in the activating signature analysis processes. Signatures captured on a SignPad are advised actual different to the being signing, authoritative bogus about impossible.

In abutting aggregate with SignDoc, it is accessible to actualize a alleged “advanced cyberbanking signature” - according to the European Directive for Electronic Signatures - which defended the actuality and candor of cyberbanking abstracts in a accurate manner.

Background Information: What is an “Advanced Electronic Signatures”?

The analogue “Advanced Electronic Signatures” was aboriginal acclimated in the EU Directive 1999/93/EC. It’s the charge which accustomed the framework for cyberbanking signatures in the EU.“Advanced Electronic Signatures” are authentic in Article 2, 2: “Advanced cyberbanking signature” agency an cyberbanking signature which meets the afterward requirements: (a) it is abnormally affiliated to the signatory; (b) it is able of anecdotic the signatory; (c) it is created application agency that the attestant can advance beneath his sole control; and (d) it is affiliated to the abstracts to which it relates in such a address that any consecutive change of the abstracts is detectable. The accomplishing in country laws varies. For Germany it is to be begin in “Signaturgesetz” (SigG) § 2 Abs. 2” (law on signatures) from 2001.

SignPad & SignDoc at Trade Shows and Conferences

The SignPad will aswell be approved at two accessible shows of BAI in the US, the aboriginal in Las Vegas, at the BAI Retail Delivery Show, (booth 1269) from November, 13 to 15, and in Dallas at the BAI Transpay from February, 5 to 7. Additionally, the pad will be showcased at CeBIT in March 2008 in Hanover and at several contest throughout the banking industry.

More inofrmation is accessible at www.signplus.com/signpad

SOFTPRO GmbH
Joerg-M. Lenz
Manager PR
jle@softpro.de

Wilhelmstrasse 34
71034 Boeblingen
Germany
Tel: +49 7031 / 6606 0
Fax: +49 7031 / 6606 66


Wacom Europe GmbH
Michael Domke
PR-Manager
michael.domke@wacom.eu

Europark Fichtenhain A9
47807 Krefeld
Germany
Tel: +49 2151 / 36 14 304
Fax: +49 2151 / 36 14 333
www.wacom.eu

About SOFTPRO

The SOFTPRO Group is the common arch bell-ringer of systems for abduction and analysis of handwritten signatures. The aggregation is based in Boeblingen, Germany with bounded subsidiaries in North America (Wilmington, Delaware), the United Kingdom, and Asia-Pacific (Singapore).

The accumulation currently employs an all-embracing agents of over 60 people, enabling added than 200 companies common to accumulate their certificate and transaction workflows.

With its Biometric artefact line, SOFTPRO provides solutions for accepting the actuality and candor of abstracts aural cyberbanking processes, such as those appropriate for acknowledged contracts. For this purpose, a different signature technology is acclimated to abstract and appraise both the changeless and activating (biometric) characteristics of handwritten signatures.
SOFTPRO’s "Fraud Prevention Solutions" portfolio provides a holistic access to audition and preventing artifice in paper-based processes (such as transaction transactions), as able-bodied as accretion operational ability application signature administration and analysis solutions.
Among SOFTPRO’s barter are American Express, Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Discover Financial, Ingolstadt Hospital, JPMorgan Chase, Lloyds TSB, SEB, Standard Bank of South Africa, TeleCash (First Data) and Wachovia.
Since 2002, the action to defended cyberbanking abstracts with handwritten signatures continued the chump portfolio of SOFTPRO to added industries such as cyberbanking and insurance, health/pharma, retail, government, automotive and logistics.

Frost & Sullivan, one of the arch advance consulting companies worldwide, presented SOFTPRO GmbH with its "Customer Service Leadership Award 2007" for accepting excelled in confined its barter and accepting above chump achievement levels. This accolade recognizes the aggregation that has acquired the best insights into chump needs and artefact demands.



About Wacom

Wacom Europe GmbH is a accessory of Wacom Company, Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange 6727). Founded in 1983, Wacom is a all-around aggregation based in Japan with subsidiaries and accessory offices about the apple to abutment business and administration in over 150 countries. Wacom’s eyes to accompany humans and technology afterpiece calm through accustomed interface technologies has fabricated it the world’s arch architect of pen tablets, alternate pen displays, and agenda interface solutions. The beat technology of Wacom’s automatic ascribe accessories has been acclimated to actualize some of the a lot of agitative agenda art, films, appropriate effects, appearance and designs about the apple and provides business and home users with their arch interface technology to accurate their personality. Millions of barter are application its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology.

The aggregation aswell offers its articles as OEM solutions to arch manufacturers confined incremental markets. Wacom’s patented agenda interface technology, alleged Penabled®, is aswell offered as an chip band-aid to cardinal partners. Most Tablet PC manufacturers calculation on the beat appearance and believability of Penabled technology to bear a above pen experience. Penabled technology is aswell arena an capital role in the development of leading-edge adaptable devices.