External collaboration platform deployed in one day

When the French government announced its new regulations, Arquus was 100% integrated into the information system of the Volvo Group. To comply with the new rules without impeding productivity, Arquus decided to create a separate, secure, autonomous on-premise network – the ADN – with a delivery date of 2022. In the meantime, the company needed a secure SaaS platform to exchange data with partners and customers, such as contracts and calls for tender, in compliance with French export control regulations.

This was an immediate need, and Arquus ran a benchmark of leading suppliers meeting French security criteria, paying close attention to modularity, functionality, price, and integration potential. Oodrive scored high on every category in the benchmark. Already the frontrunner in consideration for the on-premise ADN project, Oodrive was a natural fit. Arquus opted to use Oodrive Work and Oodrive Share as secure content collaboration platforms, both for the short-term SaaS platform and the ADN.

“Setting up a tool for external collaboration is something that we would typically expect to take weeks,” says Yannick. “With Oodrive, we are ready in one day. From the very beginning, external partners have been very happy, both that the tool is in place, and that it is so simple to deploy and use.”

Beginning in 2019, Arquus began to move its information systems, applications and data into its ADN based on Oodrive, as an environment for all data termed “restricted” by French regulations. Four Arquus applications are fully migrated to the ADN, and ten internal services have been deployed on the network. Now, the team is working on a complete document management service for 2022.

“The solutions have to meet increasingly stringent regulations and be as easy-to-use as the tools familiar from our everyday lives,” says Yannick. “Oodrive matches the experience of our previous productivity suite, so that right away, users can navigate without getting lost.”