How Digital Forms and Workflow Automation Serve the Greater Good
A broad range of state and local governments bring their constituents the same modern digital services that consumers expect from private companies. However, digital forms and the automation of the business processes behind them have an even bigger impact on the community. Today, integrated digital forms, workflow automation, and eSignatures lay the groundwork for giving […]
Documents: The Foundation of the Integrated Form-Workflow-eSignature Solution—and of the Modern, Digital Government
When workflow automation serves as a bridge that prevents electronic forms and signatures from working in a vacuum, governments create streamlined, orderly processes with significantly fewer errors that allow them to quickly create and deliver critical services to citizens in response to changing circumstances. But at the heart of government’s inner workings—and the services they power—are the electronic […]
Workflow Automation: The Bridge That Connects Digital Forms and Signatures
Workflow Automation: The Bridge That Connects Digital Forms and Signatures Recently, we expanded on why it’s so important to keep digital forms and electronic signatures together in an integrated solution, something no one has to think about with paper forms. But where physical forms inherently come with signature fields at the end, it’s a bit more of […]
Why Digital Forms and eSignatures Can’t Stand Alone
Completing and signing a physical form is a pretty straightforward exercise. Fill out the fields and sign at the end. Need more than one signature? There’s usually plenty of space for multiple autograph slots. Form and signature fields come together in one document. It’s a fact so basic that nobody would spend a millisecond acknowledging […]
Why eSignature Is Hardly a Standalone Product
Electronic signatures are a regular part of our personal and professional lives and have been for some time. Few would prefer to print out documents and sign them with a ballpoint pen when they can apply their John Hancocks with a click of a button or a few gyrations with a mouse. But while everyday […]
Los Angeles Department of City Planning Automates Payment Process with SimpliGov Platform
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, anyone who wanted to submit an appeal of an entitlement determination based on zoning changes, land use changes or conditional use permits in Los Angeles, needed to go to the office of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning (LADCP) and pay for the application fee in person. Inevitably, the […]
Government Workflow Automation to Accelerate in the State of Texas with Visionary Integration Professionals & SimpliGov
AUSTIN, Texas, September 16, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the need for government to adopt automated workflows and increasingly handle work online. To address this need, SimpliGov and Visionary Integration Professional (VIP) have teamed up to provide Texas agencies and departments with fast and easy access to industry-leading workflow automation and digital government tools − already widely […]
The Future of Digital Government: The Technology & Leadership Nexus
By Gary Leikin, SimpliGov CEO In closing a remarkable 2021, I can’t help but feel even more optimistic for the year ahead. Yes, 2021 was an incredibly hard year on communities nationwide as the pandemic continued to disrupt lives and drive continuing uncertainty. And yes, the start of 2022 has introduced new variants and challenges […]
2022 and the End to Partially Digitized Processes
By Gary Leikin, SimpliGov CEO Partially digital processes inspire frustration among citizens the world over. This idea refers to anything that combines a technological and manual (“IRL”) component within the same workflow. Think about a time you completed an extensive online form only to be asked on the final page to print your results and bring them to a […]
Targeting Real Resources at Closing the “Digital Divide”
The Digital Divide is an idea that’s gained serious steam in political discourse lately. It’s a multiheaded problem, but can be summed up as the gap in access to information and modern communication technology between different groups of people. This gap disproportionately affects underprivileged members of society — particularly the elderly, those in poverty, individuals living in […]
