The best alternative to Firmex

Looking for an easy-to-use alternative to Firmex?

TIMEREF helps M&A players to carry out their due diligences with ease.

15 free days – No card required

Firmex The best alternative
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4 Good Reasons

To choose Timeref over Firmex

Il y en a encore plein d’autres… 

Suivi de l'activité des membres

Track all your deals with a single platform

Gestion des droits

Open your data rooms without a sales rep

Accès aux documents

Use a tool that makes your documents unique

Contrôle des accès aux documents

Probative archiving of the entire data room

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The first AFNOR NF 203-certified data room

Don't compromise on safety

Firmex is an interesting dataroom in terms of security, but is only certified to an American standard. Use a dataroom with French security and confidentiality standards.

CERTIFIED SECURITY

CERTIFIED SECURITY

Firmex is SOC2 certified, an interesting American standard.

Timeref is audited 1 or 2 times a year to maintain the AFNOR NF 203 security level, and is in the process of obtaining ISO 27001 certification.

KEEP THE SOVEREIGNTY OF YOUR DATA

KEEP THE SOVEREIGNTY OF YOUR DATA

With Firmex your data is only hosted in the USA.

Timeref hosts your data in Europe, but to keep control of your data you can store your data on your own servers with the security of our dataroom.

PROTECT YOUR DOCUMENTS

PROTECT YOUR DOCUMENTS

With Firmex your documents are ASE-256 encrypted with a TSL protocol and a dynamic watermark.

With Timeref all your documents are encrypted, time-stamped, indexed, watermarked and digitally signed to make them unique and forgery-proof.

FOLLOW WHAT'S HAPPENING

FOLLOW WHAT'S HAPPENING

With Firmex, you can track user activity in the dataroom via a dashboard.

With Timeref, activity tracking is available in the activity log, which you can filter and export.

Suivis des activités sur la dataroom

A data room that's easy to use

Don't waste time with the interface

Use our tried-and-tested interface for mergers and acquisitions:

  • Mass import of files
  • Open data rooms from a digital safe
  • Tutorial available throughout the deal

TIMEREF INNOVATION

Improving the deal experience

With Firmex, you have a classic tool in terms of data-room confidentiality.

With Timeref, you increase confidentiality from start to finish:

Digital archiving by Timeref

With Timeref, your documents are archived with probative value for the entire legal retention period.

With Firmex, you keep a simple copy of the dataroom at the end of the deal.

To avoid unnecessary litigation after due diligence, Timeref offers you Probable Value Encapsulation, which brings together for the first time :

  • All dataroom files and architecture
  • All members and guests who have had access to the dataroom
  • Questions and answers, including discussion and attachments
  • The activity log

Instead of importing all the files and folders for due diligence, open your dataroom directly from Timeref’s digital safe.

Why should you do this?

  • Shorten due diligence
  • Increase deal confidentiality within the company.
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Comparison table
Firmex VS Timeref

Fonctionnalités

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Firmex dataroom

Security

AES-256 encryption

Connection to server protected by TSL protocol

Read-only mode

Software audit

1 time per year

1 to 2 times a year

AFNOR NF 203 certified

Double authentication

ISO 27001 certified

In Progress

Hosted data

In Europe

In USA

Hosting your dataroom on your own servers

Only in the business offer

Easy to open

Free Trial

15 Jours

14 Jours

Importing files

Folder import

Mass file import

Mass import of files

Opening data rooms from a digital vault

Document authenticity

Archiving by Timeref

File archiving

Dynamic watermarking

Digitally signed document

Document time-stamping

Indexed documents

Calculate the digital footprint of each document

Access rights management

Guest rights management

Member rights management

Team rights management

Protection anti-téléchargements

Personalized NDA

Only in the business offer

Analysis and reporting

Activity log

Log filter

Export log as CSV

Collaboration in the data room

Module Q&A

Barre de recherche

Encapsulation with probative value

Unlimited Guests

You only believe what you see

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