How Saudi Arabia adopted a comprehensive legal framework to support digital transformation?
By Norhan Gamal – Technical Content Creation Team
13/10/2024
Saudi Arabia has been actively pursuing innovative initiatives to modernize its infrastructure and enhance its technological capabilities.
In the past few years, Saudi Arabia has been making strategic moves to ensure its digital sector continues accelerating. After all, supporting the information technology sector is a main pillar of Saudi’s Vision 2030 initiative. Vision 2030 outlines a clear and comprehensive strategy for digital transformation, aiming to diversify the economy, enhance government services, and improve the quality of life for its citizens. Digital technologies are seen as a crucial catalyst for achieving these goals.
Earlier this year, at the LEAP 2023 conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia announced more than $9 billion in investments in its technology sector, in addition to $4.5 billion has also been invested in global and local assets across various technology sectors.
FAST COMPANY STAFF. (2023, April 3). Saudi Arabia is achieving fast digital transformation, digitizing 97% of government services.
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a profound digital transformation, a key pillar of its Vision 2030 initiative. This ambitious plan aims to revolutionize the nation’s economy, society, and governance by leveraging the power of digital technologies. This article provides an in-depth look at Saudi Arabia’s digital services landscape and its comprehensive digital transformation strategy.
Essential Element on The Journey of Becoming A Digital Business!
In an era where digital transformation is not just an option, but a necessity, where businesses are constantly looking for ways to streamline operations, improve productivity and enhance overall efficiency, and government agencies in Saudi Arabia are leading the charge in integrating technology into their operations, companies and organizations have become in a state of digital dispersion, especially with the spread of content management solutions that serve as the fuel and currency that supports and maintains digital transformation, and on the other hand, the heart of this transformation lies in the critical role played by digital trust and digital signatures in government. Are you wondering what I should do?
We will answer this question but let us first get to know those optimal digital solutions that you try to compare and do not reach a final result every time!
Electronic signature is a digital version of a handwritten signature representing the signatory’s agreement to abide by the signed contract’s terms. As a digital process, electronic signatures provide numerous advantages including better document and contract management, the ability to streamline business processes, and a super easy-to-use signing experience. E-signatures work in the same scenarios as regular signatures, such as signing a sales contract, purchase agreement, or accounting invoices.
Sign agreements quickly and easily: Send and sign your documents in just a few clicks and reduce agreement turnaround times by 80%.
Comply with Saudi law: documents admissible in a Saudi Court of Law. Your data will be safely and securely stored in Saudi Arabia.
ECM is a platform that makes it easy for everyone in your organization to access all the information they need to work efficiently. It is a process that covers the entire content lifecycle, from capturing information to publishing and archiving it, then after a certain retention period, it deletes useless files. ECM systems are designed to eliminate downtime spent searching for things. It stores document metadata in folders and allows users to perform full-text searches for specific documents. You can access them from any device and read, edit, or print them whenever you need. In addition, you can also search for words or phrases within stored documents.
Document Management: Make smarter, faster business decisions based on the insights unlocked by seeing all your content in context.
Compliance and Security: security features such as access controls, encryption, and audit trails to ensure that sensitive content is protected.
Sharing and Collaboration : Whether you’re collaborating with far-flung co-workers, patients, non-governmental employees, or customers across any vertical, you need simple, intuitive, easy-to-use ways of sharing that are also secure.
Enterprise Search: Intelligently find the right information across numerous systems, applications, and devices. No multiple tries, no old versions, no ‘zero results’ when you know it’s in there — just the right content, right in front of you.
What if there was an answer to your question and the two solutions came together to make the choice easier for you, you could combine streamlining processes, improving productivity, and enhancing overall efficiency with digital trust, digital signatures, and complete automation of your internal processes.
DigiNation was able to implement a new digital solution, seamlessly connects ALFRESCO ECM SYSTEM with SIGNIT SYSTEM, which fully supports digital transformation and automation of corporate operations while ensuring the integrity of content, data, documents, and methods of signing them.
First, Alfresco’s digital business platform is designed to help organizations navigate the journey of managing their most critical information efficiently and securely. Therefore, enterprise content is at the heart of this platform, supported by key components such as process security, collaboration, and governance, as well as the ease of integrating and adding new features using open standards and APIs, in addition to customizing the platform with different connectors and add-ons to meet your specific needs.
Alfresco ensures you have access to the right information at the right time, whether you’re in the office or on the go. This capability is essential for maintaining productivity and ensuring your team can effectively work no matter where they are.
On the other hand, Signit system will take care of the entire signing experience. The document will be automatically sent from Alfresco to Signit with all the existing content and all the signature details. Who will sign it? How will it be signed? Where exactly will this document be signed?
Signit has a very wide range of verification methods, through SMS, email, Active Directory, Absher, WhatsApp, and even international registration to cover everything. Signit is the first company to build e-signature solutions from scratch for Arabic import, so it is the only company in the market today that signs without registration at all.
Empowering Document Management System with Saudi Digital Signature!
With the integration of Alfresco system and Signit system, DigiNation was able to achieve the difficult equation in implementing one of the most important digital solutions that keeps pace with Saudi Arabia’s 2030 vision of becoming a digital state. Implementing enterprise content with e-signature contributes to improving internal, external, and legal transactions in businesses and entities. You can learn more about this new digital solution from DigiNation through their previous webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KagulPBqbxg between Mohamed Hanandeh, a pre-sales consultant at DigiNation and Mr. Weaam Bakfalouni the VP of sales and customer success at Signit company.