e-col - Collaboration in the cloud re-invented

Users are from pharmaceutical companies, law firms, start-ups, biotechs and companies with several places of business.
There are numerous applications to make use of e-Col:

  • Virtual companies and start-ups may exchange quickly and easily files, data and information and work together on documents
  • Preparing regulatory documents across branches and with external consultants
  • Collaboration platform for mixed business and academic organisations
  • Preparing legal documents in law firms across different sites without compromising confidentiality
  • Collaboratively authoring research proposals, publications, books
  • Managing R&D projects with third parties without using internal IT infrastructure
  • Easy set-up and managing your own secure data room
  • Optimal to integrated the home office of employees in the usual office work at the company
    • Secure file sharing
      • Easy access anywhere via browser on any device or via app
      • Complete control over access rights
      • Highest security measures while remaining user friendly
      • Share, collaborate and communicate across organisational boundaries
      • Enhanced productivity through built-in features
        • Notifications after file modifications
        • Chat, audio calls, comments on files
      • Project management features such as mail integration, calendar, tasks/to do lists
      • Automated back-ups with versioning
    • Collaborative editing
      • View, edit and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations
      • 100% compatible with Microsoft Office formats; save on-line documents on your computer in standard formats
      • Easy access anywhere via browser on any device
      • Fonts and styles, format text, adjust line and paragraph spacing, change the page layout as you are used to do
      • Insert objects, move, resize, align them, change wrapping styles, fill with colour or pattern, etc.
      • Collaborate on documents with your team:
        • use the track change modus
        • discuss the process in the built-in chat
      • Use your spreadsheet files online to build, check and discuss your calculations
      • Generate your presentations in real-time with colleagues
    • Security and configuration
      • Closed environment - company or project internal access only
      • Connections are secured by several layers: ssl certificates, latest secure protocol suite, high grade encryption key) and by use of https and specific certificates
      • Underlying technology is used by the German Federal administration for secure file exchange
      • 2-server-configuration: file sharing and file editing functionalities use different servers
        • editing server protected by additional passphrases
      • Backups stored encrypted on separate servers
      • Special measures to prevent brute force attacks
      • All servers are dedicated root servers and are located in computer centers in Germany (location in other countries possible); the computer centers are certified according to ISO/IEC 27001:2013
      • Administrative access to servers additionally secured by IP filtering
      • Using a high performance database engine for file sharing offers much more benefits than standard database engines; thousands of users are possible
    • Team communication
      • Secure communication via own infrastructure and dedicated app
        • video calls
        • phone calls
        • messaging
      • Available in many languages incl. English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and many more

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