Digital vault and digital signature to preserve SMEs' documents

We keep on talking about Cloud computing but a question remains: how can our SMEs’ data security be guaranteed in the Cloud?

Active in the Belgian market for more than fifteen years, STS Group has developed a full range of "Trusted Services" offers, called "Confidence Services" and commercialized by Risc Group , its reseller.

Thanks to software powered by STS Group, the professionals with access to the Cloud (Internet) can benefit from a digital vault strong room to archive and exchange their documents with evidentiary value as well as share these documents in the vaults they are sharing with their clients.

The digital vault features can also provide secure and traced digital exchange services with the same value as registered mail.

This offer, combining archiving and exchange, differenciates itself from competing offers by enabling SMEs to exchange cost estimates, plans, results, photos, contracts, invoices, payslips ... but also to hold electronic elections and to e-sign contracts safely and securely.

Risc Group has expanded its range of services by partnering with Microsoft and becoming one of two Belgian official certified partners. This partnership authorizes direct distribution of Office 365, Microsoft’s most recent collaboration suite.

Risc Group also partners with the Belgian Certification Authority, Certipost, and now provides digital signature to SMEs.

Confidence Services solution combined with digital signature guarantees that no changes were made to the document and gives the same legal value as handwritten signature. This solution also supplies an access to public applications such as on-line VAT returns. The solution developed by STS Group and Risc Group fully meets the criteria set by the Cloud computing. Documents, exchanges and their digital evidence are hosted on Risc Group IT Solutions’s Cloud infrastructure located in various data centers (France, Switzerland, Benelux, UK). Local dedicated hotline and assistance services are available for customers.

"Confidence Services is the virtual post office of the general manager. It handles digital evidence, exchange and archiving of all its company digital data," states Pierre Leijder, VP Marketing & Business Development for STS Group.

For more information : Risc Group IT Solutions Ltd Church Walks Business Centre Church Walks, Llandudno, Conwy LL30 2YX 0844 842 0100

More information about Confidence Services... visit www.confidence-services.co.uk

Risc Group commercializes the Confidence Services solution in 6 European countries: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, and UK.

Brussels, 27th Oct 2011