Jordan Nadel, co-owner of FalconTechnologies, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, supplies software to digitally savvy insurance and financial service companies, providing customized digital forms and enrollment applications. Essential to every insurance or financial document is, of course, a signature: the official authorization making the agreement between carrier and client legal and binding. Jordan needed e-signature capability to get his software off the ground, so he turned to the SignatureGem range to complete his software package. The product met his needs, providing Falcon with sharply stepped-up service to their clients, plus a means to attract prospective business. Falcon’s software provides insurance field agents with e-applications/forms they can fill out using a notebook computer, saving money and time on paper costs and paperwork, with instant and easy document access. After an agreement has been reached between agent and client, and the e-document is ready to go, the client signs on the SignatureGem pad, which digitally collects the signature(s). (Most clients of Falcon Technologies choose the SignatureGem™ 1"X5" or 4"X5" for signature collection.) Both document and signature are then saved together for later e-archiving. The free software provides Falcon with a complete e-signature solution: hardware, plus signature capture software tools. GemTools™ software provides signature and document security, plus signature authentication (saving each signature’s precise, one-of-a-kind qualities should authentication become necessary). And as for business, Jordan believes the SignatureGem range has helped Falcon win clients by providing the missing ingredient their software product needs. “The signature capture system has allowed us to create an application which results in a paperless environment for our clients. Without their system, there would be no way to digitally sign, and our clients would still need to print out applications on paper and sign manually,” remarks Jordan. Plus, he adds, getting up-and-running with the equipment was “fairly easy. Our questions were answered right away, and in no time we were in business.” A great symbiosis, which resulted in a successful software package for Falcon Technologies, as well as an opportunity for the SignatureGem range to help another company get signed up.