What are the benefits of the Secure Software Certificate?

The Secure Software Certificate shows your customers that your product’s functionality is enhanced to meet the industry standards related to security, electronic signatures, and quality.

By proactively putting your own development and software through the certification process, you immediately place your products and services above your competitors’ for a number of reasons.

Clients that would normally need to take the time and expense to perform an on-site audit of your software will no longer need to do this, because a trusted third-party has already taken these steps for them.

This means less on-site customer audits, which translates to less time and effort lost while hosting these audits, as well as a reduction in the time and effort required responding to Requests for Information and Requests for Proposals (RFI/RFP). If you host an average of three audits per month, the cost of certification is approximately half the cost of hosting the audits.

And customers who require their software to meet regulatory compliance (such as HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, or Sarbanes Oxley) can be assured that your software can meet those requirements.

The certification process also matures your development and validation processes, which leads to fewer software defects, fewer customer complaints, and less time resolving technical support issues.

As a certified vendor, you will also be able to use the SSC logo on your product marketing and web designs, showing your customers that you are certified from the start. You will also be listed on this website as a Certified Vendor, allowing your potential customers to verify that fact at the click of a mouse.

And all of these add up to a great reduction in costs for both you and your clients.

Being able to provide your customers with a uniform standard of software quality that can stand up to scrutinized comparisons with your competitors is important to your business. Your own product marketing will be enhanced, because you will be able to tell your clients that you already meet these high standards, and that they will be able to save time and money because of it.