Press & News
January 08, 2008
Hays AG Integrates Authentidate® Signature Solution
for Electronic Invoicing
Authentidate’s compliant solution enhances invoice portal
and improves customer service
Düsseldorf – Hays AG, the German subsidiary of Hays plc., one of the world’s leading specialist recruitment companies, announced today that it has implemented electronic invoicing to optimize processes and improve customer service.
Hays stated that it chose an electronic signature solution from Authentidate Deutschland GmbH, a subsidiary of Authentidate International AG, an electronic signature specialist. Authentidate’s legally compliant signature solution was seamlessly integrated into Hays’ infrastructure in order to provide an electronic solution for incoming invoices from the Company’s business partners.
Hays’ business partners, such as freelancers who are placed with different clients by recruiters, can now create their invoices to Hays using the portal by applying an electronic signature as required by law. This solution allows Hays to receive invoices electronically, eliminating the need for paper, thereby cutting costs. Invoices can be deducted from input tax due to the signature functionality integrated by Authentidate. Hays is also considering a signature solution for outgoing invoices to customers.
The Authentidate signature solution has been tested and implemented by a variety of international companies, and has proven to be a highly flexible solution to integrate. Hays also uses the Authentidate Signature Check Server to verify signatures as required by law, resulting in a fully electronic purchasing invoice process.
The solution will be presented at the Enterprise-Signature-Day
Feb. 21, 2008 - Duesseldorf, Germany
For registration: www.enterprise-signature-day.com
About Hays AG
Hays AG is the leading company for recruitment specialists in the Germany-Austria-Switzerland region and has placed highly qualified IT, engineer, finance, pharmaceutical and legal experts in projects and positions at over 500 companies. Hays’ continuously expanding resource pool currently includes around 75,000 specialists for freelance projects, temporary positions, and permanent positions. Over 3,000 Hays specialists are currently placed with companies. Hays AG is part of the British Hays plc group, the world’s leading recruitment specialist with over 370 offices in 25 countries and a turnover of €3.1 billion (fiscal 2006/2007).
About Authentidate International AG
Authentidate International AG in Düsseldorf, Germany, develops and provides independent business-process solutions enabling customers to simply and quickly integrate digital signatures and time stamps into existing corporate processes. The unique set of solutions can be used for almost any business process (i.e. billing, workflow, archiving, scanning and e-mail communication) to significantly reduce costs and optimize processing immediately.
Many high-profile companies in various industries and governmental organizations have used Authentidate’s digital signature solutions for years in Germany, Europe and other countries to substitute paper processing with legally binding, electronic business processes in accordance with international and local legal environments.
For the first time, professional signature solutions are available either as boxed products, web services or individual solutions, based on a common, flexible and modular architecture. The elements of the unique offering, available from Authentidate may be used independently or in combination with other solutions. Today, many software vendors have already integrated Authentidate’s signature products into their standard offerings. Therefore any organization now may easily benefit from automatic digital signatures processing.
In addition, Authentidate offers governmentally certified trust center services in accordance with the German Signature Act and the EU Signature Directive. Authentidate International AG was accredited by the German Federal Network Agency in November of 2001 and operates a trust center especially for time stamp services.
AuthentiDate International AG
Großenbaumer Weg 6
40472 Düsseldorf
Fon +49 (0)211 43 69 89-50
Fax +49 (0)211 43 69 89-19
Judith Balfanz
VP Marketing
Email presse(at)authentidate.de
www.authentidate.de
