A Spanish company, with a 25 year-experience in ICT, has developed a secure communication platform for the use of electronic signature and certificates in the new information technologies environment. The secure communications platform offers generic software and security solutions to the public and private sectors, and specific solutions to the Public Administration, financial entities and insurance companies. The objective of the platform is to put into operation new online services in the different organizations by integrating processes with electronic signature and certification.
Through this platform, a wide range of problems (from the most basic and simplest levels to the most complex) may be solved. To adapt in a better way to the clients, the proposed platform is implemented in modules, some of which are:
- Online payment gateway. It is a complete solution to integrate public administration online payment processes. It is a service offered to citizens, allowing them to make their payments at any time, from anywhere by using electronic signature. The solution is integrated with many entities, making these independent from any financial body.
- Document flow management. It is a solution that allows the presentation of documents, validated by means of electronic signature as if it were a traditional physical signature. The implementation of such a service has vital importance to improve the efficiency and speed in the administrative steps and to provide a higher level of service to the users.
- Virtual office. Its main objective is to improve assistance to citizens, due to a specialized support provided by expert technicians.
- Electronic signature. This module is specially suitable for those organizations -companies, administrations and financial entities or insurance companies- that want to provide their telematic services with electronic signature systems based on the use of electronic certificates with a high level of security. This module also allows to constitute one's own Certification Authority, without needing to contract the services of an external Certification Authority and, therefore, avoiding the need to pay every time that a new certificate is issued.
- eArchiving is a secure repository software product that provides users and computer applications with a Electronic Safe Service offering distance storage. Such storage allows the user to share, visualize and recover files in a quick and safe manner.
- eInvoicing is an online invoicing system that avoids printing the invoices, allowing the telematic transmission of the information via communication channels within the reach of any organization (Internet, electronic mail, etc.), without any additional cost and with the maximum guarantee of security provided by the electronic signature and certificates.
- There is also a suite of products for mobile environments that, making use of the capacities for security and electronic signature provided by the platform, offers different solutions and multi-device services (Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone, Android, etc.) for banking, administrations and multi-sector environments.
The company is looking for any agreement involving technical cooperation, such as joint ventures, technical agreements and manufacturing agreements. Depending on the partner requirements, the Spanish company may customize any of its modules in order to match the partner's necessities.
Innovative Aspects:
One of the main characteristics and advantages of this platform is the modularity, which allows the user to design its own tool, depending on his needs.
Though each module has its own advantages, some are common within the platform: they make internal administration easier, increasing the efficiency and productivity of organizations and improving communication with clients in a safe way. These advantages are possible due to the operations based on eSignature and certificates.
The platform allows the user to eliminate difficulties associated with the issuing of certificates and facilitates integration in his administration processes in a cheap and simple way. At the same time, it enhances the exchange of electronic documents, the issue of electronic invoices and online contracting of services with the same legal and fiscal validity as with traditional methods. Companies, entities and administrations will therefore be able to save costs in an immediate and significant way, contribute to improving the environment and offer a much more attractive managerial image.
