IIZUKA and Folding Space partner to work on FCO project
When the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) wanted to implement a new online legalisation service, IIZUKA were commissioned to provide the cloud-based case management software.
The legalisation team provide verification of official documents, such as marriage and birth certificates. This applies a signature, seal or stamp from a public official to confirm the document is genuine. They need to make sure, therefore, that they have a secure system for storing, searching and verifying thousands of official signatures – which is where Folding Space came in.
Folding Space provide a range of document storage and records management services and, like IIZUKA, have a track record of successful project delivery for clients in Central and Local government.
The partners integrated their software, so that Case Manager provided the appropriate level of document verification security to allow the FCO to authorise signatures and apply seals through an online portal, making the process of legalising documents quicker and simpler, while ensuring all documentation remained secure.
While this was a niche solution for one client, the ease of integration and the complementary nature of the products has encouraged the companies to work together in the future, providing secure authorisation and record management services to clients across the public and private sectors.
IIZUKA’s Managing Director Greg Hayes said,
‘Case Manager provides a secure online document repository, but the FCO wanted to ensure that the online portal for the legalisation process allowed for the secure storage, search and verification of thousands of signatures – in order that they could offer this new service online. While we could have managed this work in house, we prefer to partner with experts and had been introduced to Folding Space some while before. The FCO were extremely pleased with the way the project was developed and implemented and the new online legalisation process has now gone live. We very much look forward to developing the relationship with Folding Space and we can see a number of avenues to explore in terms of future business.’
With customers demanding the ability to do more and more online, including the management of secure and sensitive processes, this new partnership will bring a valuable service to market.
