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
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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
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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
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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
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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