Looking for a simpler, more confidential alternative to Fordata?

TIMEREF provides confidential support for mergers and acquisitions of small and medium-sized businesses.

The best alternative to Fordata

15 free days – No card required

The best alternative to Fordata VDR
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Accès aux documents

Use a tool that makes your documents forgery-proof

Suivi de l'activité des membres

Track all your deals with a single platform

Gestion des droits

Open your M&A data rooms without a sales representative

Contrôle des accès aux documents

Probative value archiving of the entire dataroom

4 Good Reasons

To choose timeref over Fordata

There are plenty more…

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Document authenticity

Use a tool that makes your documents forgery-proof

Fordata’s ISO 27001 security level is a good benchmark, on which the AFNOR NF 203 standard is based, but your documents are still vulnerable.

CERTIFIED SAFETY

CERTIFIED SAFETY

Timeref is the first dataroom to be AFNOR NF 203 certified.

The standard assesses software security, compliance and quality.

Timeref is audited 1 or 2 times a year to maintain the AFNOR NF 203 security level.

PROTECT YOUR DOCUMENTS

PROTECT YOUR DOCUMENTS

With Fordata, your documents are protected by dynamic watermarking and download protection.

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 Fordata, you can monitor user activity in the dataroom with a dashboard.

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

KEEP THE SOVEREIGNTY OF YOUR DATA

GARDEZ LA SOUVERAINETÉ DE VOS DONNÉES​

With Fordata you store your data on servers in Europe.

To keep control of your data with Timeref you can store your data on your own servers with the security of our dataroom.

Suivis des activités sur la dataroom

A dataroom that's easy to use

Don't waste time with the interface

Use our tested interface to merge acquisitions:

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

Improving the deal experience

With Fordata, you can redact your documents to increase the confidentiality of your M&A deal.

With Timeref, make your deal more confidential from the outset and avoid unnecessary litigation.

Digital archiving by Timeref

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

After your 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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Features

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timeref

Fordata VDR

Security

Read-only mode

Connection to server protected by TSL protocol

Software audition

1 to 2 times a year

1 time a year

AFNOR NF 203 certified

ISO 27001 certified

In Progress

Cryptage AES-256

Easy to open

Trial version

14 Free Days

15 Free Days

Importing files

File import

Mass file import

Mass import of files

Opening a dataroom from a digital safe

Document authenticity

File archiving

Archiving by Timeref

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

Download protection

Personalized NDA

Only in the business offer

Analysis and reporting

Activity log

Log filter

Export log as CSV

Collaboration in the dataroom

Module Q&A

Encapsulation with probative value

Unlimited Guests

From VDR Basic

You only believe what you see

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