For the 4th consecutive year, the Brussels Bar – French Order of Lawyers elected its representatives electronically over Internet.

The lawyers were offered the possibility to vote via Keyvelop: a secure digital envelope technology developed by STS Group – the Brussels Bar’s Digital Trust partner since 2005.

This year was a “small year” for the Brussels Bar – the head of the Bar being only being elected every two years. Therefore the election especially concerned the vote for the members of the Order’s Council, the assessors of the ‘Bureau d’Aide Juridique’ and the representative of the ‘stagiaires’.

This remote electronic vote was held during a shortened period this year compared to previous elections: 4½ days compared to 15 days previously. During this election week, more than 1550 lawyers voted via the STS Group solution. Following the elections, M° Bernard Magrez, president of the Centre des Nouvelles Technologies (the Brussels Bar’s IT division) and member of the election’s committee, underlined this year’s numbers as “Record-breaking, definitely marking the history of the Brussels Bar elections”.

Elections of the Brussels Bar 1998 -2009:
evolution of voting mode

Participation for this “small year” election outclassed all the previous elections going back to 1998, paper and electronic ballots combined. Overall, more than 80% of the voting lawyers opted this year for the remote electronic voting solution. Participation figures for the election have risen from 22% in 2005 (final year before the adoption of the Keyvelop remote electronic voting tool) up to over 48% in 2009.

Statistics aside, M° Bernard Magrez believes “the stakes behind these elections are fundamental [as] electing representatives of a professional Order is not just participating in its good daily running, but it is also a way of expressing one’s opinion about the strategic future directions of a profession”. M° Bernard Magrez adds that “whenever a profession expresses itself massively, then the legitimacy and strengths of its representatives can only be seen as greatened”.

For further information :

Ordre Français des Avocats du Barreau de Bruxelles: www.barreaudebruxelles.be

On September 10th 2009, STS Group will participate in the 11th meeting of the CEN/ISSS eInvoicing - Phase 2 Workshop, in Madrid.

As a new member, STS Group is officially invited to attend the Madrid event to present its Software for Trusted Services to a panel of local government representatives, tax auditors, European experts and IT providers. STS Group participates in this Workshop as a leading European Software Publisher specialized in Digital Trust technology especially applicable to setting up e-invoicing solutions as well as for the universal processing, certified exchange and probative archiving and retrieval of many other documents: contracts, salary statements, financial communications, purchase orders.

About the CEN: :The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) is a business facilitator in Europe, removing trade barriers for European industry and consumers. Its mission is to foster the European economy in global trading, the welfare of European citizens and the environment. Through its services it provides a platform for the development of European Standards and other technical specifications. CEN´s 30 National Members work together to develop voluntary European Standards (ENs). These standards have a unique status, since they also are national standards in each of its 30 Member countries. With one common standard in all these countries, and every conflicting national standard withdrawn, a product can reach a far wider market with much lower development and testing costs. ENs help build a European Internal Market for goods and services and to position Europe in the global economy.

More than 60.000 technical experts as well as business federations, consumer and other societal interest organizations are involved in the CEN network that reaches over 480 million people.

For further information

http://www.e-invoice-gateway.net/organisations/432/?country=16
http://www.e-invoice-gateway.net/events/25/
http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/homepage.htm

This topic will developed through multiple themes : e-discovery, document management, new trends and latest case studies.

During this event, STS Group Benelux will participate in a plenary session around the usage by the Brussels’ Bar and lawyers in Belgium of secure and traced exchanges and probative digital archiving. This use case will concentrate on the business applications provided to the Brussels’ Bar by STS Group and its partners under the SaaS model (Software as a Service). The presentation will be driven by Mr Bernard Magrez, President of the Brussels Bar “Centre des Nouvelles Technologies” (IT center) and head of the “Oservatoire des Droits de l’Internet” (Internet Rights Watch Association).

For further information

http://congress2009.documentatwork.be
http://www.documentatwork.be/

In accordance to what had been previously announced, namely the acceptance by the Assembly for STS Group to enter  Risc Group’s capital, Mr Bernard CALVIGNAC, Mr Henry CREMADES and Mr Pierre FORT, all three founding members of STS Group, were officially appointed as administrators of Risc Group.

In addition, the Board of Directors met after the Assembly to appoint Mr. Bernard Calvignac as CEO of Risc Group, replacing Mr. Gerard Guillot and Mr Jean-Pierre Lecou, who respectively resigned from their positions as President and General Director of Risc Group.

On this occasion, Gérard Guillot declared:I welcome the Assembly’s approval for the STS Group project, presented by the Board of Directors. The entry of STS Group in the capital of Risc Group will strengthen the company’s equity capital and its governance will henceforth find itself stabilized. I am delighted to know that the future of Risc Group can now emerge from uncertainty."

Bernard Calvignac followed by announcing:
“I feel invested, as from today, with a difficult mission, consisting in rapidly restoring the financial balance of the company. I hereby wish to thank all the collaborators and partners of Risc Group for their support of the new management in this task.”
With this approval, STS Group can now help Risc Group complete its operational restructuring before launching an ambitious industrial and commercial synergy project for the SOHO-SME market.

More information : http://www.risc-sts.com/ http://www.risc-group.com/

As the whole industry is shifting to cloud computing, EuroCloud’s goals are to become the first European cloud ecosystem to boost Cloud development across Europe, while becoming the strategic European platform for business exchange with other continents.

EuroCloud is a European network of local SaaS and Cloud computing communities, launched at the end of 2009 by Pierre-José Billote, President and founding member of the ASP Forum. EuroCloud is present in all over Europe: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, Austria, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Turkey. The EuroCloud community includes software vendors, integrators and industry experts.

STS Group will actively participate in the growth of the EuroCloud community and is represented by Alain Blaise as Administrator of EuroCloud Belgium and EuroCloud France, and by Rodolfo Lomascolo as President of EuroCloud Spain.

If you are interested in the EuroCloud initiative and wish to promote Cloud Computing in Belgium, contact us at EuroCloud Belgium: www.eurocloud.org ,  c.convent@odysseemobile.com

Current members of EuroCloud Belgium: :

	Odyssee		www.odysseemobile.com		Charles Convent		c.convent@odysseemobile.com
	SigmaConso		www.sigmaconso.eu		Annie Frère		Annie.Frere@sigmaconso.eu
	ContactOffice		www.contactoffice.com		Patrick De Schutter		patrick@contactoffice.com
	ABE		www.abe.irisnet.be		Serge Kalitventzeff		ska@abe.irisnet.be
	Freemind		www.freemind-group.com		Angelo Santoro		angelo.santoro@freemind-group.com
	Kaukana		www.kaukana.be		Gabriele Bozzi		gabriele.bozzi@kaukana.be
	Efficy		www.efficy.com		Cédric Pierrard		cpi@efficy.com
	Lorenz Law		www.lorenz-law.com		Marlies Maes		M.Maes@lorenz-law.com
	STS Group		www.group-sts.com		Alain Blaise		alain.blaise@group-sts.com

This unique event brings together for the first time over thirty international partners from Europe, China, the United States, Latin America and the United Arab Emirates. These strategic partners develop and commercialise added value solutions based on STS Group’s Trusted Services, addressing a number of markets such as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), telecoms, postal services, finance, insurances and many more. Technical and legal experts from around the world will also participate in this unique convention.

… A major event for the development of the Digital Economy


Partners present:
Adobe (US), Advalem (France/Morocco/Russia), Andago (Spain), Archiving Services (Mexico), Bluemena (UAE), Comprova (Brazil), Correo de Argentina (Argentina), Docoon (France), Document Channel (France), Easteq (China), Erynnis (Belgium), Hamilton Data Services (Bulgaria), Infinite Solutions (Belgium), Inforca (Monaco), Kronos (Espagne), Megashop (Sapin), Possible Now (US), RDVS (Canada), RR Donnelly (UK), Secure Data (Ecuador), Sovam (Russia), Systemic (Monaco), TDA Andorra (Andorra), Trizma (Serbia), …

Voir l’agenda

Contact:
Nathalie Brigode,
Channel Manager STS Group
nathalie.brigode@group-sts.com

For this 2nd edition, an important part of the forum was dedicated to e-archiving. To discuss this topic, visitors were invited to a number of conferences and a round table chaired by lawyer Pierre Beausse, in charge of writing the legislation on legal electronic archiving in Luxemburg. Pierre Leijder, VP Marketing and Indirect Channel for STS Group actively participated in this round table whilst Benjamin Spund, Head of Channel Management presented STS Group’s offer and positioning in a conference around “Digital Safe and Trust, a complete value chain”.

STS Group was present at this event with its partner, Sogeti.

For more information on this event: http://www.itieurope.net/lux_visitante_carrefour_fr.php

The objectives of this event are to :

• Promote the French ‘know-how’ (regards to paperless processes, archiving, digital signature, etc.)
• Reference key French players with local decision makers (Ministries, Embassies)
• Share mutual experiences in the field of IT and online administration

Date and location: Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, 27 and 28 September 2010, www.ubifrance.com

For the 3rd successive year, STS Group participates in the Altitude Software Workout which is held on September 23rd and 24th in Brussels. Amongst the main topics on the agenda this year: the latest trends in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Innovation in Process Automation, workshop in which STS Group will take part presenting Digital Trust solutions for BPO and call center environments.

This annual event brings together Altitude Software’s network of strategic partners and clients encouraging debate, networking and discussion around the future of interactive communication solutions.

Docoon, specialized in the processing, management and exchange of digital data in Saas mode, announces the launch of its 100% paperless process solution.
The Docoon offer integrates STS Group’s trusted services technology with its own business solutions.

To learn more about the Docoon offer, visit: www.docoon.fr.

Founded in 2000, STS Group is a European leader in electronic document management, which includes archiving and exchange of documents with a guarantee of legal validity. The company produces and sells STS Suite, a modular software package that creates a digital environment for applications including issuance and management of official certification, electronic voting, and more. This package is now distributed to over 250 major clients by partners in France and abroad.

STS Group (ticker symbol: ALSTS) was admitted to NYSE Alternext through the direct listing of the 6,217,799 shares making up the company’s capital. Market capitalization on the date of admission amounted to €104.5 million.

« We welcome this opportunity to assist STS Group as it enters a new stage in growth, and to contribute to the development of innovative new technologies that ensure the confidentiality, durability and legal value of digital records, said Ronald Kent, Group Executive Vice President and Head of International Listings at NYSE Euronext. The company’s transfer to NYSE Alternext will enhance the environment of trust it has already established and give STS Group the benefits of a supervised market that supports liquidity. »

Bernard Calvignac, Chairman and CEO of STS Group, added: « Listing on NYSE Alternext is an important stage in our development and will help extend the international reach of our company and our software.»

In just over five years, €2.4 billion has been raised on NYSE Alternext, half of this through secondary issues, by 154 companies from countries including Belgium, Canada, China, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Market capitalization totals €5.1 billion.

Contacts:

NYSE Euronext – Press relations
Caroline Tourrier: +33 (0)1 49 27 10 82

STS Group – Press relations
James Cohen: +33 (0)1 47 51 33 36

FG Partners – Listing Sponsor
Patrick Gruman: +33 (0)1 53 23 04 30

About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's secondlargest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit:http://www.nyx.com.

About STS Group

STS Group is a European leader in electronic archiving of legally required documentation, producing fully modular software solutions. Distribution of its STS Suite software is handled entirely by partners including large IT service companies, integrators, specialized publishers, web-hosting companies, IAPs, etc. This model gives STS Group direct access to premium clients and enables it to grow sales independently of its own sales and marketing capacity. The group counts over 250 large corporations among its clients, and sales totalled €23.5 million in 2009 for net profit of €6.3 million.

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (or BPOS) is a set of messaging and collaboration tools. The suite includes Microsoft Exchange Online for email and calendaring; Microsoft SharePoint Online for portals and document sharing; Microsoft Office Communications Online for presence availability, instant messaging, and peer to peer audio calls; and Office Live Meeting for web and video conferencing. The aim of this solution is to gives businesses and their employees rich capabilities and daily working tools (email account, collaborative workspace, …) without the need to deploy and maintain software and hardware on-premise since everything is hosted on servers managed by Microsoft’s selected Partner.

STS-Group is the leading European software vendor dedicated to Digital Trust. Digital Trust regroups authentication, exchange and probative archiving of any digital object. STS Group commercialises its offer through an international network of digital trust platforms. After 10years of existence, STS Group posted for the Year 2009, sales of 25M€ for a net result of 6M€ and equity of 60M€. The company reminds investors it does not hold a status of public issuer and hence its share offering can only be issued towards qualified investors acting on their own behalf as described in Article L.411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
Pierre FORT : pierre.fort@group-sts.com

Press agency :
Corinne HAURY : chaury@newsinvest.com

Like each year, this was the occasion to mix business with pleasure, with 24 companies participating in the tournament alongside a host of present and past football stars.

http://www.goldeletra.it/eng/content/chisiamo.asp

Daniel Franco, Business Development Manager for Secure Data Colombia participated in an interview on RCN Radio where he answered questions on Legal electronic archiving. This interview led in Spanish was recorded on Saturday 18th December 2010.

Listen to the interview

Secure Data Colombia provides the latest probative digital archiving technology to Colombia and has creating a unique and secure platform for digital evidence services with the mission to meet the challenges organizations face to adopt 100% paperless processes.

• RISC Italy, RISC Belgium and RISC Switzerland to DEAL IT, a 100%-owned subsidiary of STS Group; and
• RISC Spain to IPSCA, an 85%-owned subsidiary of STS Group.

The Inbox activity of RISC Group is carried out in France and internationally in six countries: Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. It represented 48% of activity on 30 June 2010, all regions combined. Despite the substantial restructuring measures begun, it is still challenging to turn a profit in the Inbox area due to its direct sales model and the absence of critical mass on the markets where RISC Group is present, except for France. The overall transfer of the Inbox area was considered but the still loss-making activities did not allow for a satisfactory offer, with the best totalling just €5.1m for 51% of the business.

In these conditions, it appeared more beneficial for RISC Group to refocus its Inbox activity on France, to keep to large, high development potential international markets – the UK and Germany – and to seek a reliable partner for the four non-strategic countries that would enable it to maintain its exclusive services for its data vaulting software.

At its side, STS, via its subsidiaries DEAL IT and IPSCA, aims to restore the financial situation of the four Belgian, Spanish, Swiss and Italian entities, by contributing its knowhow in financing and digital trust to a range of more than 5,000 active agreements.

On 30 June 2010, these four subsidiaries represented €10.7m of revenue, out of a total €64.8m (under IFRS), or 16.5%, and €9.25m in losses out of a total of €35m, or 26.4%. They have around €11m in losses that STS Group can carry forward and use.

DEAL IT and IPSCA have sufficient cash and so chose to buy these four subsidiaries, however, given the links binding RISC Group and STS Group, it was agreed that these companies would be valued by an independent expert from the firm BMA (Bellot Mullenbach et Associés).

The appraisal took into account:

• activity forecasts for generating a business goodwill value;
• the amount of current accounts invested by RISC Group; and
• the amount of the usable tax credits in future;

The next stage of the RISC Group's turnaround shall in 2011 result in strengthening the equity of RISC IT Solutions so as to give it the means to provide for its international development in Cloud Computing. RISC Group's contribution to this operation shall depend on the result of the conversion of the share subscription warrants maturing on 15 January. STS Group cannot exceed the ownership threshold of 30% of equity in RISC Group and reserves the right to participate directly in a RISC IT Solutions capital increase if necessary, with this not having the status of public issuer.

More generally, from the business perspective and independently of the €6.1m capital gain on disposal, the second half of the 2010 calendar year for RISC Group has been confirmed as being overall in profit.

For its part, in 2011 STS Group – apart from using tax loss carryforwards from its local subsidiaries – expects to obtain a €1m profit before tax from a total €8m in revenue from these four acquisitions. Becoming a 100% subsidiary of STS Group effectively allows the full benefit of the margin on sales of digital trust software while due to minority interests from one group to another this percentage could not have exceeded 50% if these subsidiaries had remained directly owned by RISC Group, so giving a swifter return to profitability.

Provided there is no major macroeconomic upset, STS Group's outlook for 2011 appears favourable overall:

• the first sales of digital trust solutions by RISC Belgium appear very promising in the average agreement size, thus making the profitability of the sale easier;
• thanks to sales of digital trust solutions by the entire RISC Group to its 25,000 customers, STS Group guarantees the lastingness of this and so shall have a second high-performance distribution network in addition to that of the JVs;
• a dozen JVs (those established globally in 2008 and 2009) of the 20 currently incorporated shall be included in the Group scope in 2011 – thanks to the purchase options RISC IT Solutions and STS Group have – due to fulfilling the contractual revenue and profit objectives.

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
James COHEN : james.cohen@group-sts.com

After contacting different suppliers, the Club Med selected the solution developed by the operator of Digital Trust, Docoon. Through its solution, Docoon, a subsidiary of STS Group² , met the various requirements and constraints of the project.

The first constraint was put forward by the Club Med’s procurement and legal services who needed to find a solution enabling the archiving of electronic documents with a probative (legal) value. This was the ‘sine qua non’ requirement to replace paper. A. Bourlat and D. Limouzineau, respectively IT Manager and Buyer at the Club Med underlined: "We had to ensure the value of the contracts sent electronically as well as their enforceability in the case of a dispute. To meet this requirement, our legal department requested that we select an archiving solution which could ensure the integrity, sustainability and probative value of electronic documents."

To this legal constraint came the second key requirement which was to integrate the solution with the Club Med’s IT environment and existing processes, as well as to ensure communication with the Club Med’s router, responsible for sending out the contracts. Docoon’s strong expertise enabled a non-intrusive integration with the existing processes, allowing, with the collaboration of the Club Med’s IT Manager based in France, to setup the solution in around ten days. The solution has so far been deployed to all the sales contracts managed in France, contracts now being delivered and archived electronically. These contracts come from the Club Med’s agencies based in Paris, but also from the Club Med’s indirect travel agency network. Other countries will also soon be able to deploy this solution following their local legal requirements.

On top of being environmentally friendly, the solution provided by Docoon also helps generate a direct ROI (return on investment), as costs for sending out paper contracts are set to decrease significantly. The advantages found are such that the Club Med is seriously considering extending this solution to other types of documents.

Electronic delivery and archiving of contracts is one of the applications that can be built with the Docoon solution, hence enabling the creation of a genuine environment of Digital Trust.

¹ Club Méditerranée, commonly known as Club Med, is a French corporation of vacation resorts found in many parts of the world, usually in exotic locations. It is considered the original all-inclusive resort (Source: Wikipedia).

² STS Group distributes its Trusted Services software suite through an international network of local operating partners in Europe, North America, Latin America, North Africa and Asia.

Rolled out in three major versions, this offer will gradually replace the publisher's historic products (STS Report, STS Web, STS Keyvelop), as the company can now provide its customers with a unique and fully-integrated hub for all Digital Trust applications.

Presented as a GA (General Availability) version since the end of October 2010, STS PEA is dedicated to COLD-type archiving and designed to replace the STS Report product. STS PEA V1 has already been selected by a major French bank for the legal archiving of its SEPA data.

Version 2, designed to integrate the documentary archiving features of STS Web, will be available as from October 2011.

Finally, Version 3 of STS PEA, which will include all the features of STS Keyvelop, will be available in the second half of 2012. When the last version is released, STS Group will have completely renewed its Suite of probative value electronic exchange and archiving software.

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
James COHEN : james.cohen@group-sts.com

Created in 2001, CODASYSTEM has developed certified innovative digital photography technology. CODASYSTEM is the publisher of a mobile capture and processing software suite for multimedia content, and a trusted operator guaranteeing data security and integrity.

CODASYSTEM's manpower stands at 6 people with annual revenues in the region of €350,000.

CODASYSTEM's software offer perfectly complements that of STS Group and will be offered to all its partners, in particular Risc Group for its thousands of customers who must make probative value reports (bailiffs, architects, experts, etc.)

The acquisition of CodaSystem is achieved through a capital increase subscribed by STS Group of €150,000, granting STS Group 96.57% of share capital and voting rights. CodaSystem holds a fiscal basis tax credit of € 4.3 million.

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
James COHEN : james.cohen@group-sts.com

The switch to paperless processes and flows is becoming a reality for a number of private and public companies: letters, invoices, payslips, calls to tender and so on are increasingly being transmitted in paperless format, allowing easier exchange and archiving. With this in mind, STS Group, software publisher in the digital trust area, and Risc Group have pooled their expertise to create Confidence Services, an innovative probative value archiving and exchange solution (www.confidence-services.com.)

The Confidence Services archiving solution is presented in the form of a fully communicating and modular vault: vault organisation, archive profiles, user access management, etc. Archives deposited by users are automatically stored on Risc Group's secure, redundant data centres. In addition, integrity control guarantees that archives cannot be modified. Finally, Risc Group provides its customers with easy-to-use solutions, allowing archiving directly from a scanner, fax machine or simply by clicking from a workstation.

The Keyvelop secure exchange service allows users to send a secure digital envelope directly from their workstation, associating recipients and opening conditions to it, whilst also being able to include a cover slip and sizeable files to their fully traced exchange. The contents of the exchange are immediately archived in the digital vault to confer probative value.

The benefits of Confidence Services: administrative interface which is user-friendly and intuitive in terms of managing both users and access rights, organisation of the archive classification plan, easy consultation of business reports, display history for vault transfers, 24-hour service access via a mobile station.

Guarantees provided by Confidence Services: confidentiality, durability and legal value of digital documents.

Confidence Services is available to the French market since January 15th, 2011. For Risc Group, this is the first step towards fully paperless archives and letters, increasing mobile access, saving time and ensuring the confidentiality of digital data.

About Risc Group

Risc Group is a major European operator in outsourced IT services.The company offers both an interconnected networks infrastructure to the most major operators in IaaS1 mode, and a full range of IT products and services managed in SaaS2 mode. Risc Group therefore gives its customers the best possible products and services in: mobility, backup, network protection, video monitoring, information management, telecommunications and hosted applications.

Listed on Euronext Paris (Compartment C), Risc Group is a public limited company (société anonyme) with share capital of €21,471,89040.

1 : IaaS : Infrastructure as a Service
2 : SaaS : Software as a Service

More information on : www.risc-group-inbox.fr

About STS Group

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, exchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2009 €23.5m of revenue and profit of €6.3m, with €60m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Press Contacts

Risc Group
Pascal Zanette
pascal.zanette@risc-group.com
Tél : +33 (0)1 46 20 92 00

For more information about Altitude Software: www.altitude.com

Founded in 2000, STS Group specializes in Digital Trust. Digital trust includes the authentication, exchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. The group's product, STS Suite, allows private and business users to securely exchange, track, conserve and consult all of their digital material via the Internet or through the company's own network, guaranteeing the legal value of these digital documents.

STS Group was admitted to NYSE Euronext in Brussels through the listing of 6,217,884 existing shares representing the outstanding capital of the company. These shares have been listed on NYSE Alternext in Paris since 30 September 2010. Market capitalization of STS Group at today’s closing was 96 M€.

“We extend a warm welcome to STS Group on NYSE Alternext in Brussels. We are very pleased to accompany the company in this new phase in its development, fuelling growth and extending its reach to the Belgian financial community”, said Vincent Van Dessel, CEO NYSE Euronext Brussels.

“We are delighted to welcome STS Group to NYSE Alternext in Brussels,” said Ronald Kent, Group Executive Vice President of International Listing at NYSE Euronext.’ NYSE Alternext is a market well suited to innovative business seeking outstanding visibility as they pursue their growth strategies.”

Bernard Calvignac, Chairman and CEO of STS Group, added: “This dual listing is an important stage in our development as it will help to further enhance the international reach of our company and our software.”

Press Contacts:

NYSE Euronext:
Anne De Gang: +32 2 509 13 92

STS Group Benelux:
Nathalie Brigode: +32 2 482 35 40

About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: www.nyx.com

About STS Group

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, exchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2009 €23.5m of revenue and profit of €6.3m, with €60m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code. STS Group is listed on NYSE ALTERNEXT since September 2010 (codes ALSTS – FR0010173518).

• Revenue for 2010 of €99.1m compared to €25.2m for the 2009 financial year
• A 2010 net result group share (after tax and goodwill depreciation) of €9.9m compared to €6.2m for the 2009 financial year.

The net result group share of €9.9m takes into account its €4.5m share in RISC Group's 2010 losses and the 2010 revenue figure of €99.1m includes the RISC Group revenue figure of €52.5m.

RISC Group confirmed over the 2nd half-year 2010 that it made profits once again, with an operating result of €1.1m (French standards 9902 used for STS Group consolidation), thanks in essence to a very substantial reduction in staff numbers, going in less than 12 months from 650 to 280 people, while the reduction in revenue witnessed over the 4th quarter of the 2010 civil year stands at only 13% compared to the 4th quarter of the 2009 civil year.

Restructuring of RISC Group is now complete. The major strategic objective of STS Group's investment stake in RISC Group, consisting of the sale of STS digital confidence solutions to RISC's 25,000 customers started successfully on 1/1/2011. Readers are reminded that STS Group will benefit from the exclusive link between RISC and its customer base to sell its software solutions electronically in SAAS mode. As such, RISC Group will become the leading STS Group distributor alongside its indirect sales network made up of joint-ventures (digital confidence platforms) rolled out in over 20 countries.

The certified consolidated accounts will be published on 29 April 2011.

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
James COHEN : james.cohen@group-sts.com

DULUTH, GA – March 14, 2011 – PossibleNOW, the leading provider of compliance and marketing solutions for direct marketers, announced that they have formed a strategic partnership with France’s STS Group to offer Secure Exchange, Archive and Evidence Management services. STS Group is the European leader in digital trust solutions which includes the authentication, exchange and secure storage of any digital object including documents and audio files.

“Direct marketers, particularly those in the call center industry, face increased challenges including the ability to service their clients while maintaining profit margins,” says Scott Frey, President and CEO of PossibleNOW. “One of these challenges is the ability to securely transfer and archive materials including audio files while maintaining legal proof of delivery. Traditional delivery methods such email are cumbersome because digital objects such as audio files are too large. The US postal service can be too slow while overnight courier services are too costly.”

Frey continues, “Our partnership with STS Group lets us offer our call center clients a reseller program that has good margins and can become a new profit center. Call centers can differentiate themselves by offering their clients a secure digital exchange and archive service that reduces costs and protects against legal liability.”

PossibleNOW is introducing the call center reseller program for the Secure Exchange, Archive and Evidence Management technology at the 2011 American Teleservices Annual Convention in Phoenix this week.

For more information about PossibleNOW, the Secure Exchange, Archive and Evidence Management technology, including the reseller program for call centers, please contact PossibleNOW at (800) 585-4888 or info@possiblenow.com.

About STS Group:
STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.
STS Group is listed on NYSE ALTERNEXT since September 2010 (codes ALSTS – FR0010173518).

A letter of purchase intent issued by STS Group on 12 February 2011 and confirmed on 14 March 2011 based on the financial statements 2010 received, deals with the full acquisition of an international IT group (the target), specialising in documentary and communication software.
Exclusive negotiations are set to take place on 5 April, once the target's legal employee notification period has ended, and the audit will last five weeks. After this time, if the audit has not revealed any risks which cannot be handled by STS Group, the purchase will be confirmed.

The target makes revenue of €250m for an EBIT of €9m, based essentially on a gross margin for software and services, has a debt-free balance sheet and a customer base of several hundred thousand SME customers in 15 countries. The equity value is around €20m.

The capital increase, initially conditioned upon the completion of investment in the target, was finally subscribed to by most shareholder funds (STS Group reminds readers that it is banned from making a public offering) in two forms:

• A first non-conditional portion of €2.3m based on a share value of €16
• A second non-conditional TEPA portion of €2.5m based on a share price to be set by the Board of Directors of between €16 and €20
• A third portion, conditional upon completion of the target of €1.7m based on a share price of €16

The remaining financing required to purchase the target will be obtained via a debt taken on by the target, since it has the cashflow needed to repay this.

As was the case when investing in Risc Group, which now means STS Group can "up-sell" its digital confidence software offers to Risc Group's 25,000 VSE/SME customers, the target offers STS the same opportunity but over a much wider customer base.

STS Group has a technological lead on the digital confidence market, based on three fundamental elements:

• Its integrated PEA software suite: probative value proof, exchange and archiving
• Its ability to handle the highest volume of digital objects in the world
• Its international network of digital confidence platforms

The new size of its customer base following the acquisition would see STS Group increase its lead in worldwide terms, with consolidated revenues in the region of €400m.

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
James COHEN : james.cohen@group-sts.com

The association of STS Group’s software for electronic archiving and Hittachi Data Systems’ (HDS) content platform enables the implementation of an integrated hardware and software solution, providing probative value and compliance to standards and regulatory requirements (AFNOR Z42-013, ISO 14721, etc.). It enables faster deployment of electronic records systems, reduced costs of implementation and overall increased return on investment.

STS Group’s Digital Trust solution and its STS HAL component can be interfaced with different types of storage media such as HCP HDS’s logical WORM servers. The STS Suite software has already convinced many clients in various industries: Bank, Insurance, Administration, Telecommunications, etc.). STS Suite includes two core products, namely STS PEA - Secure and high performance probative value archiving platform, and STS Saas Manager – Multi-tenant secure exchange, digital evidence and electronic archiving management platform. STS Suite provides trusted archiving, secure exchange and electronic signature functionalities distributed on a license or Saas mode. STS Suite provides digital trust at all levels: authentication, encryption, logging, traceability, integrity control, including electronic signature verification, time stamp, user rights management, etc.

Xavier Vignal, Chief Product Manager at STS Group declared after the certification: "We thank the teams at Hitachi Data Systems for having been so reactive in completing this certification. This integration enables us to provide our joint customers with a powerful and scalable archiving solution, in a reduced period of time, allowing our clients to gain in efficiency”.

Taking into account the required levels of storage is an important element when building an electronic archiving system. Retention of information requires a genuine support of volumes and numbers of records, but it also requires sustainability and neutrality. The systems must also ensure the availability and reversibility of data so as to guarantee long term and efficient digital preservation of data, in compliance with storage needs, yet regardless of technological developments. Hitachi Data Systems’ Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) offers powerful and scalable storage which can handle tens of billions of records. It helps preserve the integrity and security of archived documents. Its open design offers neutral, automated and innovative functionalities for any trusted electronic archiving project.

"The validation of Hitachi’s Content Platform solution with STS Suite provides customers with a complete and integrated vertical integration of digital trust. The technical collaboration between STS Group and Hitachi Data Systems expands market opportunities for both companies at a national and also European level. STS Group's expertise in the fields of electronic document management and various national and international regulations, coupled with the expertise of Hitachi Data Systems’ expertise in the infrastructure of information systems, establishes a real commitment to offer an efficient vertical and ready to implement trusted services solution to end users", said Bertrand Le Quellec, Product Marketing Manager at Hitachi Data Systems France, in charge of the product line File Services and Cloud Storage.

About STS Group
STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code. http://www.group-sts.com

About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems provides technology, services and solutions providing advanced ROI and unprecedented return on IT assets of clients, which can measure the impact on their operations. Hitachi Data Systems, information technology must be virtualized, automated, adapted to the Cloud and perennials, offering solutions that improve agility and reduce IT costs. With over 4,300 employees worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems is present in over 100 countries and regions. The world's largest companies, including more than 70% of Fortune 100 and over 80% of the Fortune Global 100, rely on products, services and solutions from Hitachi Data Systems. Hitachi Data Systems, the data lead the world and information is the new value. For more information, visit http://www.hds.com/fr.

The Brussels Bar will backup 200 GB of data every month on Risc Group’s secure and managed servers. Moreover, Risc Group’s ‘Confidence Services’ platform, powered by STS Group, will enable lawyers of the Brussels Bar to vote electronically via the Internet for their annual Chair and Council elections.

The 4000 French speaking Lawyers of the Brussels Bar will also each receive access to a ‘Confidence Services’ account which will enable them to securely declare their revenues online each year as well as receive official communications and confidential information from the Brussels Bar.

The services provided by Risc Group to the Brussels Bar are based on the secure and traced digital envelope technology, STS Keyvelop, developed by STS Group

The 2011 Truffle 100 French Software Vendor’s table was published this month. It confirms for the 4th successive year STS Group’s progression in the ranking of the top 100 French software vendors. Indeed, in the 2011 table, STS Group jumps 14 places and is now ranked 17th French Software Publisher out of 100.

http://www.truffle100.fr/2011/palmares.php

With sales in 2010 of 99M€ and net profit of 9.9M€, STS Group strengthens even more its leading positioning as expert in the development of Digital Trust software.

With the announcement of the 2011 truffle 100, CXP also presented the key IT trends for the year to come:

• Cloud computing : an ongoing revolution;
• Virtualization acceleration in IT systems;
• The Saas wave supported by Cloud ;
• ‘Dematerialization’ in every sector (aiming for paperless processes) ;
• BI at the service of business analysis ;
• From IT to Information Management ;
• "Social", bringing a whole new dimension to collaboration ;
• Mobile applications:  speeding up adoption;
• Agility and personalisation ;
• Green software: going Green.

Initiated in 2010 already and accelerated in 2011, STS Group has reinforced the development of its activities around these strategic growing markets:

• Cloud Computing – through its subisidiary Risc Group ITS,
• Saas distribution model – through its STS Saas Manager product and network of Digital Trust platform partners, present in 18 countries worldwide
• Mobile applications – following the acquisition of Codasystem earlier this year,
• Optimization of business processes – through actives partnerships with companies specialised in the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) and Contact Center space
• Dedicated solutions for SOHO and SMBs – with the launch by Risc Group INBOX of Confidence Services
  

About theTruffle100

The Truffle 100 ranks & analyzes the top 100 European and French Software Vendors (ISVs).
It was created in 2006 by Truffle Capital,a leading European Venture Capital firm.
The research is based on data compiled from survey and analysis conducted over the years by CXP, a Market Research Organization focusing on Software, IDC, the premier global market intelligence firm, and the Top 100 Research Foundation.
More information on: www.truffle100.com

About STS Group

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profits of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code. http://www.group-sts.com

Recent changes to the joint venture outsourcing strategy (digital confidence platforms) require additional consolidation work, thus justifying the later statement date for the consolidated accounts.

Indeed, two events which occurred over the past few weeks have led STS Group to foresee the repurchase of all joint ventures held by IPS NEVADA. To this end, negotiations have recently been held, resulting in the acquisition of all IPS NEVADA capital, rather than the capital of each joint venture, so as to protect the future rights of STS Group specifically against existing pre-emptive risks in some shareholder agreements. Furthermore, the external growth process announced on 17 March this year, which will take place over a longer timeframe than scheduled, legitimises the entry of all joint ventures within the scope for consolidation due to business synergy within the future group which will be created if negotiations are successful.

As a result, all joint ventures will be directly consolidated at 31/12/2010 using the equity method, with a negative impact expected on the profit and loss account in the region of €14m, due to the elimination of internal margins. This impact will have no effect on cash positions and the operating result will remain broadly positive.

This joint venture network and its consolidation are strategic for the future and worldwide positioning of STS Group on the digital confidence market. Its development will take place quickly and without any financial or legal risk, thanks to the creation of local minority partnerships allowing the Group to become majority holders in the event of success. Out of the 30 joint ventures created to date in 24 countries, the business start-up period is between 12 and 18 months. Total revenues made in 2010 stood at around €1m and the 2011 forecast is €8m.

The Group is continuing to record numerous requests to create digital confidence platforms from international partners, both publishers and operators.

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
James COHEN : james.cohen@group-sts.com

STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms. After ten years, STS Group recorded in 2010 €99m of revenue and profit of €9.9m, with €64m in equity. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact :
James COHEN : james.cohen@group-sts.com

"Collaborative Services" is a unique offer linking both Microsoft Online Services Cloud Computing solutions and STS Group "Confidence Services". SMEs and SMIs can thus benefit from simple, immediate access to Digital Confidence services, for their collaborative working needs, in addition to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services solutions, and in a few months, Office 365. They can also integrate them with all other services managed in Cloud by Risc Group IT Solutions: Centrex Telephony, Voice/Data/Internet VPN and Network Solutions, Hosting and Virtualisation.

Marketed in April 2011, this packaged offer allows Microsoft's Cloud solutions for communication and collaborative working (instant electronic messaging with Exchange Online and Office Communication Online, collaborative portal with SharePoint Online and web conferencing with Office Live Meeting Online) to be linked with the know-how of Risc Group IT Solutions and STS Group in terms of Digital Confidence in SaaS (electronic secure data storage and e-mail archiving, electronic signature, secure exchanges thanks to the Electronic Recorded Delivery Letter).

In addition to this offer, SMEs can also take advantage of all the features of Risc Group's Digital Confidence platform in SaaS mode, based on the STS Group software suite (probative value archiving solutions for digital objects or documents, dematerialisation of tax services, invoices or payslips, etc.). What's more, the offer will be rolled out over the STS Group JV network in 20 countries.

For all its packaged services, Risc Group IT Solutions provides advice, installation, migration support and training, with a single centre for support and billing. Itemized billing can be carried out per site, per user group or per company subsidiary.

In addition to its functional wealth covering all collaborative tools and Digital Confidence needs, the offer allows SME customers to reap the benefits of Cloud Computing's flexibility and ease-of-use (hosting of high availability & redundancy applications, security, maintenance and scalability of software versions).

"The market potential is enormous for this type of service in France. These offers correspond perfectly to SME requirements in terms of business IT tools. This partnership is thus essential so as to meet the expectations of more and more companies, and Risc Group IT Solutions is perfectly placed to meet them" said Ariane Gorin, Office product line director at Microsoft.

"We are glad to strengthen our partnership with Microsoft by becoming one of the 10 companies in the world selected to market this offer, and thus be able to capitalise on Microsoft Online solutions, linking up our Digital Confidence know-how" said Pierre Fort, CEO of Risc Group IT Solutions and VP Strategy of STS Group. "What's more, the Microsoft Online offer provides native interoperability with the office suites of our customers based essentially in Microsoft Office, and it guarantees continuous functional enhancement while future-proofing the existing environment."

"Risc Group IT Solutions is positioned as an aggregator of the best in Cloud Computing in its three key domains: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and as an integrator of managed turnkey convergent services" said Kais Turki, Operations Director at Risc Group IT Solutions. "Microsoft shares this strategic vision of Cloud with us, and thanks to this worldwide partnership, it provides us with the best solutions on the market in terms of collaborative working and messaging services."

"This partnership strengthens our worldwide positioning in Cloud services and allows our customers to benefit from the complementary nature of our respective services in an environment where Digital Confidence's needs and demand are continually growing" said Benoit Huard, Commercial Director at Risc Group IT Solutions. "Security and digital confidence are increasingly of concern to all IT departments, and are at the heart of all discussions surrounding Cloud Computing."

Press Contacts:

RISC Group IT Solutions
Kaïs Turki - +33 (0)1 46 20 92 00 - kais.turki@risc-group.com

Microsoft France
Guillaume Tourres – +33 (0)6 64 40 48 39 - gtourres@microsoft.com

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft Corporation (listed on NASDAQ under the MSFT symbol) is the world leader in software for microcomputers. The company develops and markets a wide range of software, accessories and services for both business and home use. This allows everyone to access the power of computing from anywhere at any time, by using the online digital tools of their choice. Created in 1983, Microsoft France employs some 1,400 people. Since 1 February 2005, it has been chaired by Eric Boustouller.
For more information, visit the site: www.microsoft.com

About RISC Group IT Solutions
A major European player in outsourced managed services, Risc Group offers both a network infrastructure connected with the leading IaaS[1] operators and a full range of SaaS[3] managed services for SMEs, SMIs and VSEs. Risc Group thus provides its customers with optimum converging telecommunications services, PaaS[2] Digital Confidence platforms and services, collaborative solutions, Voice/Data/Internet VPN and networks, virtualisation, hosting, backup and information management.
Risc Group is a limited company with capital of EUR 21,216,764.80 listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (C Unit - ISIN code FR 0010542647. - MNEMO Code: RSC)
For more information, visit the site: www.risc-group.com

1: IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
2: PaaS: Platform as a Service
3: SaaS: Software as a Service

About STS Group
STS Group is the European leader in Digital Trust software publishing, an area covering the authentication, exchange and probative value storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via an international network of digital trust platforms. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.
For more information, visit the site: www.group-sts.com

To encourage the debate, President Sarkozy has asked to bring together Internet leaders and experts in Information Technology from around the world.
The objective of this first e-G8, held in Paris on the 24th and 25th May 2011, is to bring thoughts, experiences and ideas to the Heads of State for them to discuss. President Sarkozy opened the working sessions on May 24th at 10am.

The Chairman of the e-G8 Forum, Maurice Levy, also President of the executive board of Publicis, invited STS Group and Henry CREMADES to attend this historic event underlining it is fundamental that all the stakeholders in the world representing the digital ecosystem should be heard. Participation was by invitation only.
Participants came from various groups: Leaders and founders of businesses, entrepreneurs, experts on technology and their impact on the economy and society, scientists and innovators.

The discussions which took place in e-G8 Forum followed various formats: plenary sessions, workshops, interviews; and various different themes were addressed:

• The Internet as a key driver of growth
• The emergence of a digital citizen
• Future technologies
• The creation of new centers for innovation
• The mobile revolution and its impact on trade, media and advertising
• The protection of personal data and intellectual property

The ideas generated by the e-G8 Forum were presented at the G8 summit held in DEAUVILLE, ensuring for the first time, that the voices of businesses and stakeholders who make the Internet were taken into consideration, at the highest political level.

For more information on the e-G8, visit: www.eg8forum.com

Shareholders are invited to attend the General Meeting to be held on 30 June at 10 a.m. at the head office in Boulogne.

Publication of the certified consolidated accounts for the first half-year 2011 will take place on 31 October 2011.

About STS Group
STS Group is the European leader in Digital Trust software publishing, an area covering the authentication, exchange and probative value storage of any digital object. STS Group markets its software offer via an international network of digital trust platforms. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.
For more information, visit the site: www.group-sts.com

PasswordBank provides Federated Identity to cloud service providers (CSP) such as STS Group creating a greater level of security and compliance to access critical corporate information (documents and other confidential data of organizations).

In this case, PasswordBank provides to STS Group new methods of authentication such as digital certificates, OTP ... with web-based portal for their clients to securely access and sign documents.

PasswordBank as Identity Provider authenticates the user and increase the level of security.

Another scenario is PasswordBank acting as identity broker which means that the company sends the access request to a third party provider (Google, Salesforce.com, etc) that accepts the petition and then PasswordBank grants the access to the client.

"After a thorough selection process, STS Group selected PasswordBank for its compliance to standards, its comprehensive solution and its well-appreciated flexibility and responsiveness. PasswordBank rapidly became our Trusted partner bringing added-value to our Digital Trust portfolio built around Trusted Archiving and Secure Exchange. Our combined solution, on top of enhancing security, brings ease of use and integration to our network of partners around the world", declares Xavier Vignal, Chief Product Manager, STS Group.

The benefits of Federated Identity to STS Group are security and scalability of their portals since they can provide not only authentication by user and password but also new authentication methods.

About STS Group
STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital trust area. Digital trust includes the authentication, interchange and "probative value" storage of any digital object.
STS Group markets its software offer via a worldwide network of digital trust platforms.

About PasswordBank
PasswordBank, the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) Company.
PasswordBank provides a unique Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform, a new approach for secure access to corporate identity in today’s complex and hybrid IT environments (Cloud and On-premise).
PasswordBank IDaaS platform provides Identity and Access Management (IAM), Federated Identity, Hybrid Single Sign-On (Enterprise and Web SSO) and Privileged User Management delivering the solution in three modes (Saas, On-Premise and Hybrid) for Mac, Windows and Linux users.
PasswordBank is headquartered in Silicon Valley with customers and offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The company has a partnership with Oracle as its E-SSO Partner for Non-Windows platforms.
http://www.passwordbank.com

Work started in 2006. The international working group was led by Philippe MARTIN (Aproged director / partner of Bureau van Dijk Ingénieurs Conseils) with the active support of APROGED experts. The annual international meetings of the committee TC171 developed rapidly: London, Beijing, Orlando, Paris, and Salt Lake City in 2011, allowing members of the French delegation, led by Gérard Weisz (Aproged administrator / consultant Sirius Systems), to build the normative reference inspired by the French standard.

Following a vote which lasted five months and ended on June 27th 2011, the project was approved by 12 countries and 14 participating member countries (P) TC171/SC3.

The ISO / DIS 14641 should be published during the fourth quarter of 2011 after integration of the latest comments.

APROGED - http://www.aproged.org
Founded in 1993, APROGED is the association of professionals for the digital economy (dematerialization, content management and document archiving, capture, desktop publishing, workflow ...).
It has over one hundred members representing all professional actors (publishers, manufacturers, distributors, integrators, service providers, consulting firms, third party archivers, ...) of this booming sector. At the heart of the debate on the digital document, the management of unstructured information (ECM) and the intangible economy, APROGED plays a key role in information, education, training, but also standard.
The association is also the co-founder of FAN (Digital Actors Forum), the annual gathering of professional development and content management, publishing and digital document.

Mexico

The newspaper El Universal is the second largest newspaper in Mexico and the largest circulation in the country. Similarly, the site has one of the most important traffic among the Mexican media, with an average of 700 000 unique visitors and 8.5 million page views per month.

Read the article in El Universal (08th July 2011)

CNN Expansión is the most prestigious website in the country in terms of economic news also offering detailed articles on new technologies, health and lifestyle. It has 1 million unique visitors and 9 million page views per month.

Read the article in CNN Expansión (11th July 2011)

Colombia

Interview of Rodolfo Lomascolo (VP Business Development) in El Espectador

« Companies have high expectations for e-services »

Read the article in El Espectador (04th July2011)

Chile

« Over 1 500 companies have already adopted paperless processes »

Read the article in Gerencia (17th June 2011)

Latin America

« STS Group encourages the usage of electronic signatures to guarantee the security and value of digital data and paperless processes »

Read the article in Business News America (16th June 2011)

The digital services platform, dedicated to the Brussels Bar (French Speaking Lawyers) and meeting the specific needs of the legal profession, was been revamped and customized to facilitate the process for lawyers to vote remotely via the Internet. For the past six years, the services provided by the platform have allowed lawyers of the French-speaking Bar of Brussels, to elect their Head and representatives remotely via the Internet (using secure electronic envelopes). When you know that the Brussels Bar alone accounts for 55% of French-speaking lawyers in Belgium, it goes without saying that the issue of these annual elections is important.

Revamped user interface, invitations and reminders to vote via interactive notifications, dedicated hotline and online support service, ... initiatives that suggest that the new e-voting platform operated by Risc Group in Belgium, combined with its Confidence Services offer, powered by STS Group and offering electronic vault and secure e-mail services, should rapidly attract the interest of the legal profession in Belgium.

As part of the technical support services provided during the elections, direct support, managed by Risc Group Belgium, was made available to lawyers of the Brussels Bar. A telephone number and email contact were created for the occasion in order to assist lawyers in their various requests around the voting process and election. Around 70 requests were recorded during the election that took place over a 10 day period. All the requests were processed within 30-minutes, thanks to a specially trained support team who could manage multiple calls simultaneously. The limited number of requests for support, less than 4%, shows that the new portal was intuitive; even though users concerned by this election are traditionally attached to the paper. The support team was also in close contact with the official assessors of the vote, so as to give regular feedback on the development of the electronic voting process but also to connect lawyers with their fellow election assessors with respect to specific requests.

An electronic success
73.5% of participants in the election voted electronically over the Internet (vs. in paper), a ratio which has increased every year since the system was introduced in 2006.

"Our legal profession has recognized the usefulness and effectiveness of such electronic solutions that are essential for the right functioning of the Brussels Bar. We are now just a few steps away from crossing a large gap to introduce such digital tools in the daily management of all law firms”, underlined Bernard Magrez, lawyer at the Brussels Bar, member of the head of the Bar’s law firm, President of the Internet-Observatory (Belgium), law teacher at the IIE Valenciennes, SSI Expert recognized by ANSI (France).
And if you look more closely, with Risc Group Belgium’s Confidence Services, coupled with its recent partnership with the Belgian Certification Authority, Certipost, all the required tools (digital evidence, exchange and archiving) are now available for lawyers to adopt and benefit from genuine paperless processes. These solutions are made available and fully operated by Risc Group Belgium in partnership with the Brussels Bar.

 Read the annual report 2010

An interview of Rodolfo Lomascolo, Vice President of Business Development for STS Group was published on August 10 in the Latin American web-magazine InfoWeek.

InfoWeek is a magazine specialized in business and technology. Readers of InfoWeek OnLine are directors and managers of medium and large organisations in Latin America, responsible for decision making in the field of information technology.

The magazine aims to present IT as a strategic tool for businesses to manage risk, growth and innovation. The article emphasizes the need for companies to secure their digital assets (data, documents) and optimize their internal processes by investing in cost effective digital trust solutions.

» Read the full article (Spanish)

First-half 2011 revenue was in line with forecasts:

• At 40% of the year′s budgeted revenue, the first-half′s percentage matched expectations, with – among other factors – both STS Group and Risc Group signing major deals in H1, for which billing begins in H2.
• On a comparable scope, RISC Group′s H1 2011 revenue – based on the 99-02 standards used for the STS Group′s consolidation – was stable year-on-year at €21,177 K in H1 2011, against €20,825 K in H1 2010.
• Turning to the JVs, the above amounts include elimination of the inter-company figure we introduced when closing the 2010 accounts (first-half 2010 data is presented with both numbers: before and after elimination). After this elimination, revenue was €6m less than in H1 2010. This was due to a slowing in JV creations, with the operational launch of those JVs already created occupying most of the technical and support teams′ time.
• - STS′s business expanded – €10,922 K in H1 2011 compared with €5,375 K in H1 2010 – thanks to the development of the bundled RISC + STS offers financed by DEAL IT.

A propos de STS Group
STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital confidence area. The STS Group software package contains authentication, capture, exchange and archiving modules, affording probative value to any object or digital process and storing it in the long term. STS Group markets its software offer in Licence or Services (Software as a Service, SaaS) mode, via a worldwide network of digital confidence Cloud Computing (Trust in the Cloud) platforms and partners. The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Digital Trust Software, an STS Group partner for French speaking Africa, is inviting companies to attend a training seminar in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) on the 8^th and 9^th November 2011.

The theme for this session is: " Information Management Policies: Business Strategies and post-crisis Document Archiving "

Through different panel discussions, participants will receive the essential information they need to know to better understand and manage the challenges and solutions around documents and information management in post-crisis periods.

Mr Christian DESSERT, expert in Archiving and Digital Certification, and CEO of Digital Trust Software will lead the seminar.

Presentation brochure of training (557.18 kB)

www.digitaltrustsoftware.com

On August 25th, STS Group’s VP for Business Development was interviewed on ET Channel, a television channel covering general news and on air 24 hours/day. During this interview, STS Group explained the importance and benefits of entering a Paperless Economy; with the ultimate goal of helping companies and administrations optimize their processes (back office, administration, communication, business, etc.) and increase their overall profitability through the adoption of easy to use trusted e-services. (Canal ET – 25th August 2011)

Thanks to a dedicated team and the participation of all of the group’s entities, an effective Quality Management System, following the ISO 9001 standard, was put in place. The Quality Management team’s mission is to ensure that quality is continually measured to improve the quality of the group’s products and services, as well as that of internal production processes.

The system of objectives introduced by the STS Group’s Quality Management team aims to assess and enhance customer, partner and employee satisfaction. This system monitors the group’s operations in order to make sure they meet customer and partner expectations.

As part of this continuous improvement, and following audits led by Vinçotte (Certificate IQNet), STS Group has received the ISO 9001: 2008 certification for all of its sites (Boulogne, Brussels, Nimes, Toulouse) as well as for all of its activities (design and production of an electronic archiving and secure exchange software, design and implementation of certified document scanning services).

Shoot & Proof^TM allows users to take certified photos from a mobile phone, and provide evidentiary elements. It is quick and easy to prove the quality of a service, the completion time or make a statement. With Shoot & Proof^TM, construction, cleaning, security, merchandising and insurance companies, have a way to monitor their business and increase productivity .

How does it work? The picture captured from the mobile, is geolocated, time stamped, watermarked and encrypted. The place and time of the shooting but also the integrity of the photo are guaranteed. With the integration of Shoot & Proof^TM in Confidence services, Risc Group’s digital trust solution in SaaS, the user can, in addition, archive the certified photo directly in the digital vault and/or send it by Keyvelop (secure digital envelope) to one or more recipients.
All certified photos can be viewed and are available for download from the secure customer portal Confidence Services (www.confidence-services.com). By making Shoot & Proof^TM, an option of Confidence Services, Risc Group is expanding its offer of evidentiary value archiving and exchange.

Learn more about the Shoot & Proof^TM offer, click here.

About Risc Group
Risc Group, a major European operator in outsourced IT services provides companies with network, communications, hosting / IT facilities management, online backup and SaaS¹ mode digital trust solutions. Listed on Euronext Paris, Risc Group is a public limited company with share capital of €21.580.900, which achieved a turnover of € 64.8 million in its last fiscal year ended on June 30, 2010.
¹ : SaaS : Software as a Service www.risc-group.com

About STS Group
STS Group is the major digital trust software vendors. The STS Group software suite includes authentication, capture, exchange and archiving modules, it brings the preservation and the evidentiary value of digital documents. STS achieved a turnover of 87.2 M € in its last fiscal year ended on 31/12/2010.

Press Contacts
Risc Group
Alexandra Mehat
Tel: +33 (0)1 46 20 92 00

This interconnection paves the way for secure exchanges between trust platforms on an international level.

Furthermore, every one of STS Group’s Digital Trust partner platforms will offer services generated with STS Group’s software at a local level (Evidence, Exchange, Archiving) as well as CISCO Safe solutions and Microsoft Office 365 online services.

Initial results are expected in 2012.

A propos de STS Group
STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital confidence area.
The STS Group software package contains authentication, capture, exchange and archiving modules, affording probative value to any object or digital process and storing it in the long term.
STS Group markets its software offer in Licence or Services (Software as a Service, SaaS) mode, via a worldwide network of digital confidence Cloud Computing (Trust in the Cloud) platforms and partners.
The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contacts
James COHEN
james.cohen@group-sts.com

The representatives of those companies (Anevia, AwoX, Dassault Systèmes, HAIKU, Kymacom, OneAccess Networks, STS Group and Viaccess) sought for promoting their expertise and know-how as well as building the foundations for commercial and technological partnerships with local telecommunications players.

The ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) are a priority sector as regard to French-Vietnamese economic and trade relations. This collective mission intends to reinforce them further, in a context of growth and significant technological upgrading of the Vietnamese telecommunications industry.

The article in Diario de Negocios Hoy entitled « Lo Digital es la tendencia » (Digital Trend) underlines the importance of new Digital trends in organisations to provide increased profitability, time savings and information security.

Diario Negocios Hoy : http://www.hoy.com.ec/noticias-ecuador/lo-digital-es-la-tendencia-505450.html
Multimedios 106 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VumJ9lw0FpM

The company will allow the public to access, and will publish its financial report for the 2010/2011 financial year, on its website on this date.

About STS Group
STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital confidence area.
The STS Group software package contains authentication, capture, exchange and archiving modules, affording probative value to any object or digital process and storing it in the long term.
STS Group markets its software offer in Licence or Services (Software as a Service, SaaS) mode, via a worldwide network of digital confidence Cloud Computing (Trust in the Cloud) platforms and partners.
The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact
James COHEN
james.cohen@group-sts.com

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 :

STS Group & Risc Group
Rue de Stalle 140 – Stallestraat 140

More information about Confidence Services

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

About STS Group
STS Group is a software publisher and European leader in the digital confidence area.
The STS Group software package contains authentication, capture, exchange and archiving modules, affording probative value to any object or digital process and storing it in the long term.
STS Group markets its software offer in Licence or Services (Software as a Service, SaaS) mode, via a worldwide network of digital confidence Cloud Computing (Trust in the Cloud) platforms and partners.
The Company reiterates it does not have the status of Issuer raising funds from the public and so the share offering can only be made to qualified investors acting on their own behalf under Article L. 411-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Contact
James COHEN
james.cohen@group-sts.com

500 hours a year are lost looking for paper documents!Archiving documents electronically can be very beneficial for companies. Business productivity has been found to be able to increase by up to 71.9% via the adoption of electronic archiving, particularly through the use of digital archiving combined with electronic document management (EDM) systems, (InfoNegocios, 11/18/2011)

The productivity of a company can be increased by up to 71.9% when using e-archivingA study by STS Group underlines that through the adoption of new technologies, amongst which e-archiving, companies are making workers more productive, whilst saving time and money.(Mundo en Línea, 8/11/2011)

México:

Tally sheets go paperless Digitalization of election result records could open the way towards implementing electronic voting in Mexico, underlined Henri Cremades, CEO of STS Group, software company specialized in Digital Evidence and Electronic Archiving. (El Golfo.info, Technology, 16/11/2011)

A company’s productivity can be grow by up to 71.9% through the use of e-archiving systemsA study from STS Group, leading digital trust software company, shows companies have enabled their workers to be more productive whilst saving both time and money thanks to new technology e-services.(Multipress, 17/11/2011)

Perú :

Peruvian newspaper El Diario Expreso is distributed nationally and has a readership of 55 000 readers a day. This Newspaper has been active on the market for over 50 years and is one of the most important and influential media in Pérù.

On November 28th 2011, following an interview with STS Group’s CEO, Henri Cremades, El Diario Expreso published the following article underlining the benefits of electronic archiving for businesses.

For more information:Confidence Services

Read the Consolidated half-yearly results at 30 June 2011

Virtual Data Room are the best option to safeguard strategic information regards to company management. STS Group recently incorporated its Trusted Services offer with DRS Digital’s Virtual Data Room online solution for the management, archiving and secure exchange of confidential company management information. (Latinspots, 01/02/12)

• Argentine (Latinspots, 02/01/2012)
  Los Data Room Virtuales son la mejor opción para resguardar información.
• Colombie (ChannelPlanet.com, 06/02/2012)
  STS Group incorpora los Data Rooms Virtuales para la gestión de información confidencial.
• Mexique (LatinSpots.com, 02/01/2012)
  Los Data Room Virtuales son la mejor opción para resguardar información

Find out more about DRS Digital.

STS PEA, the high performance digital archive system, has been audited compliant with French AFNOR NF Z42-013 standard (ISO 14 641) by Hénon Conseil Cabinet, the reference standard for electronic archiving with evidentiary value. Furthermore, Ms Isabelle Renard, lawyer partner in Racine Cabinet, delivered a legal opinion on the probative value of STS PEA software. It concludes that STS PEA ensures integrity of digital records, a required condition of their evidentiary value according to the law.

Finally, STS PEA has been accredited by the Interdepartmental service of French Archives (SIAF) in an archiving solution operated by Risc ITS regarding the externalization of records and archives conservation for French Public Administration (compliance with archiving standard – NF Z42-013, ISO 14721/OAIS – data recording and storage, management of reversibility, etc).

Last evolutions on STS PEA include advanced management of evidentiary value (logs with Time stamping Authority and secure input), advanced management of rights (management of user role) and actions on archives (metadata modification, legal hold).

STS SaaS Manager 2.0, platform of Digital Trust services in SaaS mode (electronic archiving and secure and traced exchange) includes a registered electronic mail (REM) and two-factor authentication.

Following the publication of French decrees regarding REM sending for the execution and the execution of contract, STS Group has worked in close collaboration with lawyers specialized in secure electronic exchange to make evolution on STS SaaS Manager and offer a REM solution in total compliance with French legal requirements. It has received a legal opinion from Mrs Isabelle Renard; lawyers at Racine Cabinet accredited its compliance with those requirements.

Finally, to fight against online identity theft, STS SaaS Manager 2.0 offers a large choice of two-factor authentication methods: certificate, OTP, biometry…

Boulogne-Billancourt, 13th March 2012 - Navaho, a subsidiary of STS Group specializes in IT outsourcing solutions, announced today it received the approval of the SIAF (Service inter-ministériel des Archives de France) for the storage on digital media of "current" (archiving use) or "intermediate" (archives of any use but to be temporarily stored, for legal reasons or heritage) public records, as part of third party archiving service contracts.

The delivery of this approval was based on an evaluation by archivists representing the SIAF, as well as departmental archive directors. It focused on two main elements:

• Security: To prevent damage or data loss, Navaho set up a redundant storage device over two geographically remote sites.
• Traceability: once the data is secure, users are able to identify the events and history of each document to ensure its authenticity and integrity.

Pierre Fort, CEO of Navaho, said: « Faced with increasing costs and productivity, the dematerialization of documents is today a key issue for communities and governments. Nevertheless, the volumes of data they are handling and the associated regulatory requirements require specific skills. With its SIAF official approval, Navaho is now well positioned to meet the needs of the public sector and offer its dedicated digital trust solution. » It took six months and a six-person team to complete the SIAF accreditation process. Navaho also strengthened its team by recruiting an archiving expert to offer its customers solutions that best meet their business challenges.

The challenges of electronic archiving

In an environment of increased dematerialization, companies are faced with the need to set up a reliable archiving system, efficient, and easy to manage. Especially since the retention period of records can be very long (4 years for a tax notice, 30 years for the company incorporation documents and until payment of pension rights for pay slips, although Legislation allows some destruction after 5 years). Thus, third party electronic archiving enables data retention while complying with legal and regulatory obligations.

Navaho, by its SIAF accreditation and NF Z42-013, is one of the leading players in the market of digital trust. To learn more about the trusted solution Navaho Digital Trust, visit: http://www.navaho.fr/site/confiance-numerique.htm.

You can also follow Navaho news live on Twitter.

About Navaho
Navaho offers a complete range of IT services to businesses: Network & Telecommunications, Hosting & Cloud Computing; Outsourced Backup; Collaborative Messaging, Digital Trust solutions. Navaho’s solutions are based on multi-operator and multi-service platforms and combine the best market technologies to ensure a chain of global infrastructure, highly secure and available. Navaho was voted Best Private External Cloud provider at the Cloud Computing Awards 2011. Navaho is a trademark of Risc Group IT Solutions. Risc Group has as a shareholder, STS Group, Europe’s leading software company specialized in Digital Trust, an area that includes authentication, exchange and probative value archiving of any digital object.

Contacts presse
Hotwire Olivier Muller - Olivier.muller@hotwirepr.com - Tel. : +33 (0)1 43 12 55 52
Marion Delmas - Marion.delmas@hotwirepr.com - Tel. : +33 (0)1 43 12 55 62

In 2011, PacifiCA, Insurance subsidiary of the French bank Crédit Agricole launched a free iPhone application that allows home and car insurance holders to initiate and declare their claims quickly and completely secure via their smartphone.

This application powered by Shoot & Proof is currently part of a communication campaign in the media.

More information on the following link: http://www.clubdeinvestigacion.com/usuarios/articles/preservación-de-objetos-digitales.html

Meeting will take place on Thursday April 26 at 7:30 am at the Union Club (Costa Rica). Assistance of Mr. Manfred Mejias Acevedo, M.Sc., Director of Operations CODISA Software. Manfred Don will speak about:

"Preservation of digital objects"

Before the advent and proliferation of personal computers was talk of ’office automation’ to refer to the technology used to create, collect, store, manipulate and communicate digital information produced in the corporate offices. The promise was to reach a ’paperless office’. All this has changed enormously, with personal computers, local area networks, personal productivity software, media and digital peripherals, and the Web.

The result is that we produce more and more digital data. Many of these data are printed, to have documents that may be stored in a ‘pysical sapce’ - which is a contradiction. This also occurs in reverse, documents are scanned to be stored on a digital media. Then there is the concern of whether it is possible to preserve long-term digital information without printing it, making it available to communities authorized to access it. Innovative force of digital technology and rapid obsolescence are some of them, a consideration to look at is also the support of new media and data formats - and changing communities of users.

This lecture will explain how you can overcome this challenge, to meet the need for digital objects when required, guaranteeing its integer recovery. The development of standards, procedures and best practices has resulted in the definition of frameworks that help to solve this need. The standards cover a diverse range elements, among which are: digital signatures and certificates, standards for records storage and management, design and construction of data centers. From this set of standards, OAIS ("Open Archival Information System") provides a reference model that allows the preservation of digital information.

The Digital Vault service is based on a center of high-level data, signature and digital certificates as well as the implementation of elements of the OAIS model.This lecture will explain the main concepts of the OAIS model and its embodiment in product architecture Digital Vault.

This conference will benefit: Managers of Technology, Systems Development Directors, Compliance Officer, Research and Development Managers, General Managers, Operations Managers, Legal Advisors, Auditors Systems, Security Consultants, and technology professionals Information with responsibility for technology management, systems design and development, technology architecture, safety and defining strategies.

Find out more about Codisa, partner of STS Group on http://www.codisa.com

As part of the Digital Agenda for Europe, a draft European directive "on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market" was submitted and adopted on 4th June 2012.
The existing EU legislation in this area (Directive 1999/93/EC) does indeed cover the electronic signature yet the EU currently has no cross-border and cross-industry framework for secure, reliable and easy comprehensive electronic transactions, covering identification, authentication as well as electronic signatures.

The purpose of this Directive is to extend the current legislation to the recognition and mutual acceptance, at EU level, of notified electronic identification systems and other relevant major digital trust services.

Find out more:

• Proposal for a Regulation "on electronic identification and trusted services for electronic transactions in the internal market":
  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/esignature/eu_legislation/regulation/index_en.htm
• Electronic identification, signatures and trust services: Questions & Answers
  http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/12/403&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
• Europe’s Information Society Portal :
  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/esignature/index_en.htm
  http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/esignature/eu_legislation/regulation/index_en.htm

It is initially aimed at French companies offering solutions around network security, data protection, authentication, communications security, fight against cybercrime, risk prevention, data-mining, encryption ... the vent also aims to attract prospects and potential partners in Vietnam.

Vietnam is rapidly developing its digital economy and services, and recent recognised gaps in IT security (Vietnam is the fifth country most at risk among the top 10 spam relay countries) make it a promising market for French IT companies.

Give legal value to your electronic records to avoid litigation, mitigate risk, and guarantee the security of your digital archives and electronic communications, whilst ensuring compliancy with laws and standards: that is our core expertise. STS Suite allows you to rapidly and seamlessly deploy paperless processes and e-services.

STS Suite meets the increasing need by companies and public organizations to reduce their costs and optimize their business, document and customer management processes through the adoption of innovative digital applications compliant to regulatory frameworks in force on their respective markets. STS Suite allows any organization, large or small, to dematerialize the sending and archiving of data and documents (contracts, invoices, notices, etc.); ensuring traceability, integrity, authenticity of origin and probative value of their records and communication.

STS Suite is available in two products:

• STS PEA: Application for digital archiving with probative value
  STS PEA is ideal for electronic archiving projects requiring probative value as well as for processing very large volumes (billions of documents). STS PEA provides customizable management of very high volume archiving and easily integrates into existing IT applications and environments.
• STS SaaS Manager: Trusted Services Platform
  STS SaaS Manager is aimed at service providers, software vendors and IT integrators wishing to extend their offering with Digital Trust services: Evidence, Exchange and Archiving. STS SaaS Manager integrates the module STS Keyvelop, enabling the delivery of secure and traced digital envelopes; and allows the implementation of a platform for Registered EMail (REM).

STS Suite is used in the health sector, by banks and insurance companies, local authorities, Human Resource departments, Professional associations, Contact Centers, and is a real asset for any business looking to go paperless and ready to adopt and deliver the benefits of e-services.
More than 500 enterprises use STS Suite, archiving over 2.000 billion documents, on-site and in the Cloud.

As a member of the ACN (Alliance for Digital Trust), STS Group hosted on this occasion a round table around the theme of “Key figures of the Digital Trust market".

TheACN is an informal forum which aims to combine the efforts of federations, businesses and institutions around Digital Trust. It aims to become the preferred institutional partner regards to digital security issues in order to participate closely and influence national and international debates and regulations around this strategic IT issue. The ACN also aims to coordinate initiatives to increase the awareness around the challenges and genuine benefits of IT Security and Digital Trust solutions.

Read more about the ACN

> Read more about the ACN
> Read the report "The latest Digital Trust market figures"

STS Group has been an industry leader for more than a decade delivering digital trust software to several leading large enterprises in Europe. They have pioneered in delivering electronic archiving, secure and traced exchange and digital evidence solutions on a SaaS mode, through operating partners around the world. With strong strategic partnerships, STS Group has been able to advance their digital trust and security solutions beyond geographies and business applications.

Emmatics will seek to bring these world class solutions to Indian Enterprises to offer secured online transactions to all its stakeholders. Of the many capabilities of the STS Suite, Emmatics is preparing itself to deliver Online Electronic Voting (eVoting) services to the top 500 public listed companies to comply with the mandatory guidelines laid out by SEBI.

“The inclusion of STS Suite in our portfolio is an important part of our strategic vision. Through this business unit, Emmatics looks forward to becoming the preferred IT partner for the leading Banking, Insurance & Financial institutions in India enhancing their online services for their customers.”
- Mr. Jayaram Sathyanarana, CEO, Emmatics Technologies.

“The shift to digital economy and wider adoption of online services provided by financial institutions, as well as their corporate and retail customers is compelling organizations to adopt newer technologies. To capitalize on this opportunity, coupled with the evolving digital security standards in the Indian Market, STS Group is forging a strong business and technological partnership with Emmatics. Together, we look forward to emerging as the most reliable and relevant IT partner for providing Digital Trust Solutions.”
- Pierre Leijder, VP International Business & Marketing, STS Group.

> Find out more about Emmatics Technologies
> Find out more about STS Group

STS PEA allows high performance archiving of very large volumes of documents and data (ability to process and archive hundreds of billions of digital objects).

STS PEA 2.1 includes digital vault services respecting standard NF Z42-020, advanced storage media management, multi-profile search capabilities for improved consultation, purge of archives having reached the end of their retention period, as well as enhancements to the archive management administration.

Features offered by STS PEA 2.1:

• Digital vault services respecting standard NF Z42-020:
  • Unitary services and synchronous archive deposit, retrieval, deletion and journal consultation,
  • Support of PostgreSQL DBMS 9.X
  
  
• Advanced storage media management:
  • Auto control of archives (archive consistency and integrity check),
  • Migration of storage media including cryptographic functions refresh and auto-repair
  
  
• Multi profile consultation


• End of retention period purge (archive deletion service upon expiry of digital archiving period)


• Administration enhancements:
  • Improved import / export settings (services and interface),
  • Improved metadata management (metadata configuration change management and new metadata configuration GUI)
  • Improved digital archiving configuration screen
  
  

Coming soon

Discover the new packaged version of STS PEA, STS PEA TrustSpace and its SAE and CCFN versions, high volume electronic archiving software dedicated amongst others to the health sector.

Discover the new version of STS Saas Manager, trusted digital trust platform providing digital evidence, secure and traced exchange and electronic archiving services.

Following several successful projects in which STS Group integrated Cryptolog’s electronic signature solutions with its digital archiving software, STS Group welcomes Cryptolog as a new technology partner and offers within its software for trusted services (Proof-Exchange-Archiving) Cryptolog’s electronic signature modules.

Cryptolog is a software company at the forefront of innovation in electronic signature, timestamping and evidence management. Cryptolog continuously aims to simplify the market’s best practices by enabling anyone to use an electronic signature.

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