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Milestones

2011
  • First major installation of solution for E-Signing on iPads - SignDoc Mobile - atone of the world's leading insurance companies
  • Partner Academy in Dubai with record attendance - participants from 18 countries
  • Partner network at its peak with more active partners in more countries and industries than ever
  • Softpro Signature Management India Private Limited established in Chennai / India
  • SOFTPRO identified as World Market Leader - according to University of Economics and Law Berlin
  • SignDoc in production at car registration authorities in Germany for the application of driver licenses
2010
  • Year closed as most successful in SOFTPRO's operation so far
  • Launch of SignPad Color - Digital signing meets digital signage
  • SOFTPRO partner and SignPad/SignWare user CECA receives various additional awards plus the prestigious innovation award of "FT The Banker"
  • SignDoc Desktop supports signing of all file formats - thanks to buit-in file conversion
  • SignDoc certified for usage in German Credit Unions by FIDUCIA
  • SignDoc & SignDocWeb certified for security and usability by TueV
  • SOFTPRO North America opens second office in California focused on E-Signing
  • Representation in Lebanon established
  • SignDoc in production in registration offices in Germany to apply for the new e-ID card
  • SignPad eSignio went into production as part of kiosk systems in registration offices in Switzerland
2009
  • R & D partnership with Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) established
  • SOFTPRO partner and SignPad/SignWare user CECA receives Innovation Award of European IT-security organization TeleTrusT
  • Representation in Brazil established
2008
  • E-Signing solutions incorporating SignWare or SignDoc adopted in retail (IKEA via TeleCash) and telecommunication (Sunrise)
  • First Partner Academy (at that point named “Technical Deep Dive”) – in Kuala Lumpur
  • Insurer VPV goes paperless with SignDoc for Contract Signing on Tablet PCs
  • Web-based E-Signing solution SignDoc Web in production at first customer
2007
  • SignDoc for Adobe Reader launched (integration of handwritten signatures in Adobe Live Cycle)
  • Signature tablet SignPad eSignio receives innovation award of DMS EXPO IT-show
  • SignPad eSignio launched in branches of Berliner Sparkasse for paperless account opening and other processes
  • Frost & Sullivan lauds SOFTPRO for achieving outstanding customer satisfaction
2006
  • SOFTPRO exhibits at CeBIT (world's largest IT-show) for the first time with own booth "Signature Pavilion" and displays study of a LCD Signature tablet - a joint development with Wacom which was launched as SignPad eSignio (Wacom STU-500) in 2007
2005
  • SOFTPRO FraudOne User Group established
  • Joint presentation with Wacom at German-Japanese IT-summit in Tokyo
2004
  • SignDoc wins Microsoft Tablet PC Challenge as “Best Tablet PC application” and exhibited at CeBIT with Microsoft
  • SignDoc ranked as “Best Biometrics Application for Tablet PCs” worldwide in Microsoft’s developer contest "Does Your Application Think in Ink?"
  • SOFTPRO United Kingdom in London established
  • SOFTPRO successfully ventures into fraud detection applications to become market leader and first installation at Bank of America - processing up to 17 Mio checks per day with this customer.
2003
  • Ground-breaking co-operation with leading US banks triggers FraudOne initiative
  • First E-Signing product (SignDoc) released
2002
  • First installation in South Africa
2001
  • Static signature verification engine named most accurate by Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC)
    [Note: FSTC merged 2009 into the Financial Services Roundtable (FSTR)]
  • New major client wins – Citibank, American Express, Discover
2000
  • SOFTPRO Asia Pacific in Singapore established
  • First installation in the United Kingdom – largest user of SignBase signature data base at that time
1999
  • SignPlus Edition II released and first major contracts won
  • SOFTPRO North America established
1998
  • First installation in the Philippines
  • Start of development on dynamic signature verification
  • Acquisition of patent rights for static signature verification engine from IBM
1996
  • Major client wins in Southeast Asia
1994
  • SignCheck in production at first bank in Switzerland
1993
  • SignCheck (Automatic Static Signature Verification) development completed
1989
  • Development partnership formed with IBM and APP Informatik
1987
  • Visual signature comparison software in production
1983
  • Founded by Heinz Reschke and Paul Hugenholz on December 1st