Piql Book of References

Company in liquidation Case Study

CHALLENGE Especially the combination of digital and physical records and the unsecured archival suitability of some digital formats and the SAP database pose a challenge for the proper archiving of records for ten years. SOLUTION The physical documents were recorded and stored for the period in climatically monitored archive premises in Switzerland. The metadata can be searched by the customer via a user-friendly and secure customer portal and associated documents can be ordered. Likewise, the digital data was checked for readability and corresponding processes for readout were defined so that these could also be read out through the client portal database. In order to keep the costs of archiving at a low level, piqlFilm was chosen as the storage medium. The unique storage technology ensures that the data on film is and remains unchangeable and thus fully legally secure. FUTURE By storing all this data on film, a practical and groundbreaking example could be provided of how legally relevant objects to be archived can be stored digitally and sustainably in the long term without dependence on proprietary service providers, in a cost-saving way and without power consumption. The risk of alteration or hacking is virtually eliminated and there is no loss of information due to the secure storage of the bitstream. A combination of paper and digital records are common. For such heterogeneous collections, archivsuisse in cooperation with Piql offers an optimised solution at an attractive price.

Quote from Dr. Christophe von Werdt, managing director and co-owner of Archivsuisse:

“We already have many years of experience in the field of legally compliant archiving of bankruptcy and liquidation documents, and piqlFilm is the optimal storage medium to ensure legally compliant and legally required file storage of digital or hybrid file inventories because it is unalterable and cost-saving.”