AmVia, South Africa's leading provider of fax software and services, has launched Vfax, a pay-per-use, desktop fax solution based on the RightFax fax server that meets all regulatory compliance requirements.
Vfax represents an ideal alternative for fax transmission for corporates which cannot cost-justify a fax server at branches, departments or outlying areas, says Boudje Giljam, sales and marketing director at AmVia, a company in the JSE AltX-listed Vox Telecom group.
"Most large corporates have fax infrastructure that is compliant with the requirements of corporate governance," says Giljam. "However, they tend not to address the needs of divisions, departments or branches which cannot afford their own fax server, or which cannot be connected to the centralised fax environment. Although they cannot justify this investment, they still require the highest standards of corporate governance. Vfax has been designed with them in mind."
AmVia can integrate Vfax into any corporate environment and devise an appropriate pricing model. Because organisations pay only for the faxes they send and receive, they do not require any capital expense up-front, and costs can be taken off balance sheet. Vfax meets the requirements of regulatory compliance:
* Point-to-point delivery of faxes, as opposed to the store-and-forward architecture of e-mail-based faxes. This ensures real-time tracking and notification. Fax to e-mail cannot provide the same certainty.
* A date and time stamp for outbound faxes.
* Full audit trail of fax movements, with a transmission log and fax image archive available.
* Allocation of permissions and rights ensures integrity of data and prevents confidential information loss.
The Vfax architecture complies with the requirements of such compliance and governance frameworks as the King Report, the ECT Act, Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley, to mention a few.
"In addition, Vfax was developed for the enterprise IT environment," says Giljam, "bringing the highest level of robustness and integrity to departmental faxing. In every sense, Vfax is a true fax experience, rather than e-mail. And given the volumes of faxes being sent and received daily and the critical nature of many of them, this is what organisations need."
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