Silanis Joins with IBM to Deliver e-SignLive™ Giving Canadian Businesses a Best-in-Class E-Signature Solution Hosted in Canada

IBM Cloud allows Silanis to offer business clients an instance of e-SignLive e-signatures in Canada, providing organizations with the same compliance, security and data hosting standards previously available only through on-premise hosting.

TORONTO--()--Silanis Technology today announced that it has deployed its leading e-signature solution e-SignLive™ on the IBM Cloud, enabling the Canada-based electronic signature provider to give its clients in highly-regulated industries in-country access to data from IBM’s cloud data center in Toronto.

The Silanis e-signature service now allows Canadian businesses, particularly those in highly-regulated industries – including financial services, government, real estate, insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical – to sign and store documents securely in Canada. Concerns over data sovereignty have traditionally acted as barriers to cloud adoption, which has negatively impacted the ability for cloud organizations to close business faster.

Silanis real estate partner and electronic document management solution provider, Faltour, will take advantage of e-SignLive’s new Canadian-based instance. “Now that we are able to offer real estate agents and their clients exclusive access to a Canadian data centre, the demand for in-country data residency will finally be met,” said Jean-Sebastien Dufault, CEO at Faltour. “Having this transactional data stored on Canadian soil eliminates any potential future requirement for consent to the storage of client data out of country, reassuring Canadian real estate associations.”

Silanis is the only e-signature provider that has completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 attestation, a certification that focuses on security of the system and ensures controls are in place over a period of time. SOC 2 outweighs other security reporting measures including SSAE 16/SOC 1 and ISO 27001 in that it is the only certification that reports on the technology and operational controls that are relevant to the security of a system or service. Achieving this level of security provides e-SignLive users with the assurance that stringent controls are always in place.

“In businesses where e-signatures matter we are seeing rapid adoption worldwide, so it only makes sense for Silanis to offer in-country data residency everywhere we do business to better service our growing markets,” said Silanis Technology CEO and co-founder Tommy Petrogiannis. “Complementing our existing deployments in the U.S. and in the U.K., we are proud to add Canada to the list to address the needs of businesses in regulated industries. Additional geographically distributed data centers will be coming online in 2015.”

According to research and the E-Signature Dashboard report from the Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO), Silanis is the only leading e-signature provider to offer data hosting in both Canada and the U.S., a bonus for companies that do business on both sides of the border.

To find out more about this partnership, please visit www.silanis.com/partners-and-apps/partners-and-solutions/ibm-softlayer.

About Silanis Technology
Businesses of all sizes choose Silanis Technology when electronic signatures matter. With more than 600 million documents processed every year, e-SignLive™ is the most widely used e-signature solution around the world. Thousands of organizations, big and small, including the leading banks, insurers, credit providers, pharmaceutical and government agencies trust e-SignLive as their platform to make business digital. On premise or in the cloud, e-SignLive delivers the best customer experience while improving legal and regulatory compliance. Learn more: www.silanis.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+.

Contacts

Silanis Technology
Sarah Milner, 250-216-1762
sarah_milner@silanis.com

Release Summary

Silanis Technology has deployed its leading e-signature solution e-SignLive™ on the IBM Cloud in Toronto, enabling businesses in highly-regulated industries in-country access to data.

Contacts

Silanis Technology
Sarah Milner, 250-216-1762
sarah_milner@silanis.com