Bose Corporation Selects Surety’s Digital Notary® Services
RESTON, VA, June 22, 2000 -- Surety, Inc, the leading provider of digital notarization services, announced today that the Bose Corporation, the world-leading manufacturer of quality sound systems, has selected Surety\'s digital timestamping service to ensure the integrity of its intellectual property in a research department archiving system pilot program.
Traditionally, Bose has used a hardbound notebook system to prove the validity of their research. This time and labor intensive system requires Bose researchers to document research findings by handwriting the data into a hardbound notebook and signing and dating each page. The company began looking for an electronic archiving system nearly two years ago and selected Surety\'s Digital Notary® Service to be an integral part of a new electronic archiving system.
\"Although we continue to use the traditional notebook system, our researchers and engineers rely more and more on electronic applications and often must re-write data that already exists in electronic form into the notebook,\" said Tom Froeschle, vice president of research, Bose Corporation. \"Digital Notary Service provides the irrefutable proof that we need to protect our electronic intellectual property and is a core element of our new electronic archiving system. It\'s been easy to incorporate into our existing applications and we believe that Digital Notary Service\'s timestamping procedure produces better integrity than a traditional written signature.\"
Bose Pilot Program Well Underway
The electronic system allows researchers to digitally notarize and timestamp files using a simple process for selecting the files and timestamping. The process automatically produces a consolidated archive copy of the originating files and the resulting Notary Record Certificate in a compressed archive, *.zip format. Archives are organized as hierarchical folders viewable from Windows Explorer.
Digital Notary Service has been in use at Bose research as part of the pilot program by a few dozen researchers for the past year. Froeschle said that he hopes to roll out the official electronic archiving system across its 70-member research department in June and to have nearly 400 engineers able to use Digital Notary Service to protect their electronic records by the end of the year.
\"While we certainly expect some of our researchers and engineers will continue to use the hardcopy notebook system, we are encouraged by the success of the pilot program and hope to make the new electronic archiving system including Digital Notary Service available to everyone by the end of the year,\" said Froeschle.
About Bose
Bose® Corporation is best known as an American innovator in the manufacturing of quality sound systems. Founded in 1964 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Dr. Amar G. Bose, the company maintains an exceptionally strong commitment to research and is the world\'s largest manufacturer of component quality home stereo loudspeakers, high-end integrated music and home theater systems, and acoustically customized automotive systems.
Posted: Thursday, June 22, 2000