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2 CONTENTS Chairman s message 2 A reinforced management team 4 Another year of strong growth 5 Financial overview 6 An eventful year 7 Stock-market performance 9 A very profitable, high-growth business model 10 Market opportunities 11 An expert offer 14 Spotlight on the new SaaS offer 16 An efficient R&D policy 18 A group with international ambitions 19 An ambitious partnership strategy 21 References 24 Strategic objectives 26 Outlook for 2008 and ambitions for

3 A pioneer in its area of expertise since 2000, STS Group is a publisher of specialized software for probative value Electronic Exchange and Archiving. It has a leadership position in Europe, with more than 2,000 billion electronic objects archived. STS Group uses a model that is 100% variable. Its STS Suite software and its new Saas Software as a service offer are distributed exclusively by its partners: large computer services companies, integrators, specialized publishers, web hosts, ISPs, etc. This model gives STS Group direct access to the most prestigious clients and allows it to increase its sales without being held back its commercial or geographic capacity. To date, STS Group boasts more than 250 large company accounts. With offices in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain and Italy, STS Group is stepping up its international development via partnerships in high-potential markets. STS Group has been listed on the over-the-counter market (Marché Libre) since October ISIN code: FR MLSTS 2007 Targets exceeded by a wide margin Sales: +140% to million Profit on ordinary activities: +143% to 4.96 million Net profit: +81% to 3.52 million STS Group s three-year strategic objective is to become the leading global publisher of probative value digital exchange and retention software ambition Achieve 50 million in sales through: organic growth acquisitions Annual Report STS Group

4 Bernard Calvignac Chairman and CEO CHAIRMAN S MESSAGE The sharp increases in our key economic indicators are a reflection of our growth momentum in fiscal 2007: - Sales: +140% - Attributable net profit: +81% The group also underwent significant changes during the year: - With the acquisition of Logon SI, the Group gained a Professional Services department, which is critical for all global software publishers and which allows us to oversee quality standards with respect to training, implementation and support. - Two strategic partnership agreements were signed, one in December 2006 with EMC and the other in December 2007 with IBM. Not only have we already recorded, at end-2007, sales results from the first agreement that are very encouraging for the future, but above all they will increasingly allow STS Group to position itself as an OEM product of these two major international groups, with the STS software contributing all the probative value components. 2

5 It is, in fact, too late to impose new standards on the electronic document market and the strategic decision the Group made 24 months ago to immerse itself in global document reference systems is now proving to have been prescient. We are signing contracts with unit values equaling several million euros, whereas when STS was offering only its own solution, it was just for a specific application and could not handle the entirety of a company s archiving needs. In the latter case, a contract s maximum value did not exceed a few hundred thousand euros. - The SaaS (Software as a Service) launch was a success. The first pilot projects were used by, among others, organizations such as the Brussels Bar Association. Although the banking sector represented approximately 60% of the Group s 2007 sales, we do not believe we were affected by the difficult economic and financial conditions experienced by the banks with which we work. We therefore expect our business to continue to grow in With more than 17 million in free cash flow at the end of 2007, the Group will continue its acquisition strategy in 2008 with the expectation of a steady increase in the flows of documents we archive in our software. Bernard CALVIGNAC Annual Report STS Group

6 A REINFORCED MANAGEMENT TEAM To support its massive growth and become the global leader in probative value digital exchange and retention software publishing in three years time, STS Group has made a series of hires to round out the founding management team and add depth to first-line management. The Management Committee now comprises five founding shareholders and six managers who lend their expertise and experience. All the members of the committee are well-known for their careers at IT companies. Founding managers Henri Cremades Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Experience: CISI, Nixdorf, Computer Associates, Econocom (France and Spain) James Cohen Vice President Sales Experience: Sperry Univac, Unisys, Regional Director of Econocom Pierre Fort Vice President Strategy Founder and director of SNRI (NTIC). President of computer integrated manufacturing division for the Languedoc Roussillon region Pierre Leijder CTO Founder of Logon Group ex IBM Bernard Calvignac Founder and Chairman Director of ECS ( 1.5 billion in sales, sold to SG), co-founder and director of Econocom ( 1 billion in sales) and co-founder of (remote food retail) First-line management Alain Blaise SaaS Manager Experience: Solofi Jean-François Chauveau Sales Manager France Experience: Novadys, Captiva, EMC/Documentum Christophe Cottain Logon Services Manager Eric Mortier Support Manager Philippe Duchesne Professional Services Manager Experience: Steria Eric Sengelin Research and Development Senior Manager Experience: As Infor, Docubase Structured around four departments (Marketing, Support, R&D, Professional Services), STS Group had, at December 31, 2007, 65 employees, including 40 engineers/project managers. STS Group operational organizational chart Bernard CALVIGNAC Chairman Pierre FORT Strategy VF Accounting Human resources Internal communication Pierre LEIJDER CTO Henry CREMADES CEO 4 Eric SENGELIN R&D Senior Mgr Eric MORTIER Support Mgr Philippe DUCHESNE Professional Sces Mgr C. COTTAIN Logon Sces Mgr Keyvelop engineers James COHEN VP Sales J.F CHAUVEAU France Sales Mgr Alain BLAISE SaaS Mgr Thierry BLANC Marketing Mgr

7 ANOTHER YEAR OF STRONG GROWTH Change in sales (in K) Change in net profit (in K) 11,237 3,526 1,948 4,683 2, , Change in cash flow (in K) Change in staff 17, , The performances realized in 2007 should be compared with the three successive forecasts announced in 2007, for sales of 7 million, 10 million and lastly 11 million for net profit forecasts of 2.5 million, 3.1 million and finally 3.5 million. The profit on ordinary activities/sales ratio increased once again, rising from 43.7% in 2006 to 44.2% in Annual Report STS Group

8 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW Simplified profit and loss account In K Growth Sales 11,237 4, % Operating profit 4,734 2, % Profit on ordinary activities 4,965 2, % Extraordinary profit (652) (82) - Taxes Goodwill amortization Minority interest share Attributable net profit 3,526 1, % The extraordinary 0.65-million loss stems from the Keyvelop subsidiary. The Keyvelop software must be completely rewritten if it is to be easy to produce and able to handle large volumes. This is a necessary prerequisite for its integration into the STS software offer, which is mainly sold to large company accounts. The group recorded an extraordinary amortization of 0.35 million for 100% of the R&D expenditures, which had previously been posted on the balance sheet. In addition, a 0.25-million write-down of bad debts, related to invoices in 2006 and the first half of 2007 that to date are still unpaid, was recorded. Taking into account the acquisitions that have been made since July 1, 2007, STS Group is amortizing goodwill over 20 years, resulting in a 0.17 million charge for Balance sheet structure at December 31, 2007 In K 12/31/ /31/2006 Total fixed assets 15,341 3,265 Equity 31,845 5,737 Free cash flow 17,546 4,486 Borrowings and financial liabilities 3,548 2,257 Shareholders equity, including net profit at December 31, 2007, was 31.4 million and 31.8 million including minority interests. It includes the November 2007 capital increase, which raised the authorized capital to 3,766,231 through the issuance of 137,819 new shares with a par value of 1. Change in capex (in K) Change in net earnings per share (in ) , ,001 1,

9 AN EVENTFUL YEAR The year 2007 was marked by major events that supplemented STS Group s offer, strengthened the partnership network and expanded STS Group s presence in Europe. Acquisition of new offers In March 2007, STS Group acquired 60% of the capital of Keyvelop (i.e., a 0.3-million investment). Thanks to the patent that Keyvelop holds in France and abroad (including in the USA), STS Group intends to develop an easy-to-produce, probative value exchange software to supplement its probative value archiving offer. In July 2007, STS Group acquired all of the capital of Logon SI France, specializing in the integration of archiving solutions. In 2006, this company successfully launched an SaaS (Software as a Service) activity. The SaaS offer consists of creating dematerialization platforms for business publishers that integrate the publisher s software with STS Group s probative value exchange and archiving software. Thanks to Logon SI s unique expertise, this new offer allows STS Group to: address a large part of the SME/SMI/Business (attorneys, notaries, bailiffs, etc.) market, which it up to now it had not addressed; benefit from a multi-faceted and recurring business model, with on demand invoicing based on the volume of documents archived. Following the sale of Logon SI to STS Group, the founding shareholders of STS Group decided to convert the proceeds from this sale ( 6.9 million) into STS Group shares. Strengthening its strategic partnerships Since its creation, STS Group has enhanced its ability to expand by forming partnerships. During the fiscal year, this strategy was reinforced with the signature of new partnerships. Novarchive chose to integrate STS Group s probative value archiving solution into its global offer of dematerialization and electronic archiving services. These agreements confirm STS Group s position as the reference player in legal archiving. This expertise is also well known in China. In March 2007, Easteq, one of the largest Chinese integrators in the IT world, selected the STS Suite software suite in order to integrate the legal value aspect into its electronic archiving offer. Annual Report STS Group

10 A major event: EMC/Documentum partnership In December 2006, STS Group signed a European partnership agreement involving the interfacing of the EMC/Documentum electronic document management software with the STS Group s probative value archiving and exchange software. In March 2007, it took another leap forward with the creation of IMC Solutions as part of a joint venture between Systemic/Inforca, EMC s leading distributor in France, which is also very knowledgeable about other partners in Europe, and STS, which owns 51% of the capital of this new entity. IMC Solutions is focused on the exclusive marketing of the STS for Documentum solution to clients and partners: STS Group, Logon SI, Systemic/Inforca and EMC. This company has already had its first large-scale success (while no contribution had been expected this year) with the signature of contracts worth 5 million at the end of the fourth quarter of International expansion In September 2007, STS Group boosted its European presence with an office in Italy through an exclusive distributor. The Milan team s objective is to strengthen the network of partners in this country and expand the marketing of STS Suite to major Italian companies. With the opening of this sixth office (Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, Geneva, Luxembourg, Milan), STS Group is acting on its strategy of strengthening its position in Europe in the coming years. STS Group BELGIUM Brussels STS Group FRANCE Paris STS Group SWITZERLAND Genève STS Group SPAIN Madrid Barcelona STS Group ITALY Milan 8

11 STOCK-MARKET PERFORMANCE STS Group share price 100,000 90,000 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10, Volumes traded Price Shareholders notebook Euronext Paris over-the-counter market (Marché Libre) ISIN code: FR Mnemonic code: MLSTS Date of initial listing: October 2005 Number of shares at March 31, 2008: 3,766, high: low: Market capitalization at December 31, 2007: million Breakdown of capital Founding shareholders Investment funds Public 64% 1% 35% 2008 publication schedule February 20, 2008: Audited consolidated financial statements for 2007 April 11, 2008: Ordinary shareholders meeting April 18, 2008 : Consolidated financial statements (unaudited) for the first quarter of 2008 July 18, 2008 : Consolidated financial statements (unaudited) for the first half of 2008 August 14, 2008 : Audited consolidated financial statements for the first half of 2008 October 17, 2008: Consolidated financial statements (unaudited) for the first nine months Contact: Bernard CALVIGNAC - Chairman - bernard.calvignac@group-sts.com Sylvie PAGES - sylvie.pages@group-sts.com - Tel: + 33 (0) Annual Report STS Group

12 A VERY PROFITABLE, HIGH-GROWTH BUSINESS MODEL STS Group (Security, Tracking, Solutions) publishes the STS Suite software specializing in the electronic archiving of digital objects for their entire lifecycle. STS Group addresses its various target clients with a 100% variable model thanks to an indirect sales network comprising exclusive sales agents, distributors, integrator partners and standard and business management software publishers, to whom all the installation, parameterization, training, etc. work is subcontracted. The company has, however, retained ownership of its source code, which it has filed with the APP (Agence de Protection des Programmes/program protection agency), and it has a Research & Development department that is responsible for the functional and technical upgrades of the software. Integrator partners include international computer services companies, such as Steria, Sogeti- Transiciel, GFI, etc. Design: Research/ Architecture Development Distribution Integration Marketing STS Group Partners The On site segmentation, with the STS suite available in eight languages, including Chinese, and the integration of an SaaS Software as a Service offer (application service provider: remote software rental over the internet), allow STS Group to cover a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from large company accounts, to SME/VSE/liberal professions, to individuals. This market approach encourages a very fast go to market and allows STS Group to devote its resources to design and marketing. STS Group s indirect sales model Large company accounts SMEs, VSEs, Liberal professions, Individuals On site* Integrators, Large computer services companies Publishers, Business and enterprise function integrators SaaS Hosting centers Generalist and business publishers, Operators, ISPs *On site integration into the client s information system 10

13 MARKET OPPORTUNITIES Over the past few years, the emergence of document dematerialization has introduced a new dimension to the management of enterprises and governments, among others, encouraging the communication, classification and search for information. More and more documents invoices, orders, contracts are changing hands in electronic form. Yet legislation requires that many of these documents be retained for a certain number of years under conditions that guarantee their integrity and authenticity. Legal electronic archiving has consequently become an unavoidable challenge for enterprises, the liberal professions and governments, as well as for individuals. STS Group s areas of focus: general introduction Electronic archiving is a branch of EDM (electronic document management, or ECM, enterprise content management), i.e., a computerized approach that makes it possible to manage the creation, circulation, classification and archiving of documents in electronic formats. Legal, or probative value, electronic archiving is a subsegment of EDM. EDM makes it possible to manage the flows of documents that enter, exit or circulate within a company. These techniques make it possible to capture or dematerialize the documents, so as to manage, index, store, search, consult, process and transmit digital files from all points of origin. Legal electronic archiving (Records Retention) manages the entire lifecycle of the documents, from their creation to their destruction or definitive archiving, regardless of medium, thus guaranteeing the authenticity and integrity of the documents so as to strengthen their probative value. STS Group is active in electronic archiving and legal electronic archiving. Regulatory framework evolving in favor of electronic archiving The electronic archiving market has been buoyed by a regulatory framework that has imposed increasingly strict constraints at the European level. Longer retention periods for business documents: from five years to more than a century, depending on the type of document. The European Directive of December 13, 1999 established the legal framework for electronic signatures. The law of March 13, 2000 on the adaptation of the law of evidence to information technologies and on electronic signatures grants the same legal value to an electronic document as a paper document under certain retention conditions. The European Directive of January 1, 2004 on the fiscal dematerialization of electronic invoices is now applicable to all the member states of the European Union. The law of June 2005 establishes the notion of an electronic original. Annual Report STS Group

14 Legal electronic archiving: a booming market According to experts, legal electronic archiving enjoys the same potential as mobile telephony did in its early phases. This approach is based on the strategic challenge it represents for enterprises and governments, as well as for the liberal professions and now for individuals. Records Retention (or RR ) is an integral part of content management. It involves any fixed, nonmodifiable content that is to be retained for a specific period and for administrative, regulatory or legal purposes. The archives can include all types of content, from physical documents to s, as well as Web content, office files and image, audio or video files. Archive management encompasses the processes for the acquisition, submission, communication, retention and the eventual sorting and destruction of content. Owing to the greater vigilance by the public and increasingly strict regulations, archiving processes require ever-more rigorous, secure and reliable systems. Constructing an RR software solution amounts to exercising control, in a targeted and systematic manner, over document creation, whether the documents are received or produced, for the entire period during which they are used until their fate is decided. There is also the added possibility of establishing and preserving evidence and information related to the form of the documents. RR makes no distinction between the paper form and the electronic form of documents, data, information or objects. It manages both at the same time. Therein lies the added value of the RR module compared with a traditional EDM platform. RR meets organizations growing need to secure their document production over the long term. EDM responds primarily to the document management work problem. Not only does RR deal with this problem, it broadens it by taking into account the risks weighing on the organization. This is reflected, in particular, in the fact that it is impossible to make changes to the documents/ records integrated into the RR system. 12

15 The volumes to be managed are increasing exponentially A few figures to bear in mind The dematerialization market in continental Europe: 20 billion invoices/year of which only 3% are dematerialized (source: IDC) 150 billion legally archivable documents per year, i.e., 11% of documents created (source: BVA) +24% per year, this is the estimated growth rate for the legal electronic archiving market until 2009 (source: Cabinet Frost Sullivan) All those who are active in economic life have archive management obligations. They must not only conform to existing regulations or compliance standards, but must also implement sorting and destruction rules for their documents. Archive management is no longer merely optional, it has become a critical need. Electronic invoicing optimizes the complete management of invoicing flows (outgoing and incoming) and payments between a company and its partners. The cost reductions are considerable, 40 to 60% for invoices whose average processing cost is from 13.8 to 17 for the client and from 8 to 10 for the supplier. The market environment is currently very favorable. Enterprises are becoming mature and are open to the possibilities offered by the Internet in terms of optimizing their commercial and financial transactions, supported by a well-defined regulatory framework. In terms of , it is estimated that almost 80 billion s were exchanged daily in 2007 in companies throughout the world. Currently 90% of a company s external exchanges are conducted through and these exchanges contain commercial, administrative and legal data that must be archived. The use of shows no sign of waning. In fact, reports on market trends by Gartner, IDC and other analyst groups emphasize the importance of and conclude that this is probably the most critical, or, at the very least, the most widely used organizational communication tool. Given the pressure economic players are under to comply with new regulatory standards, while being capable of archiving an ever-expanding volume of internal knowledge, businesses have been forced to completely rethink their organization. Yet 68.5% of companies complain about archiving problems and find it difficult to retrieve documents and 70% of companies are considering investing in an electronic billing system in the medium term, which requires legal archiving. The emergence of the electronic archiving market will be a source of good fortune but will also shift budgets that are now spent on data storage or use of paper, purchases of paper printers and filing cabinets, etc. Unstructured documents (word documents, images, s, multimedia objects, etc.) now represent more than 80% of the information indispensable for company management. Faced with this reality, companies are faced with new sets of problems: integrating all the information that is spread out among all the company s different departments; ensuring the management of different documents for their entire respective lifecycles; accessing all the company s strategic information in real time and in a secure and appropriate manner; integrating a document management functionality into the specific business applications. Annual Report STS Group

16 AN EXPERT OFFER The genesis of STS Group in 2000, shortly after the publication of the 1999 European Directive on electronic signatures, was its anticipation of the problems involved in electronic archiving and legal archiving. Since then, the offer developed by STS Group has integrated software capable of handling all types of digital objects and documents, while also taking into consideration the regulatory aspect at the European level. STS Group was thus able to adhere to all the legislative provisions required as electronic exchanges have developed. STS Group s offer differentiates it from: service providers specializing in legal archiving, by taking the electronic document flows directly from the company s information system; EDM publishers, by designing native software intended for legal archiving while most of the publishers have been satisfied with adding an archiving module, which provides no assurance that the document will not be falsified. STS Group s strength lies in addressing not only the electronic archiving market in the on site segment (software installed directly at the client) but also in its positioning on the ASP segment (archiving outsourced via the Internet). This ON SITE/ASP segmentation means that STS Group is able to offer customized responses and products to all its target clients, from large company accounts to individuals, as well as SMEs and VSEs. STS s technological platform is a global solution that permits, all along the document processing chain, an interface with the information system, making it possible to exchange data, verify the coherency of the information captured and then to trigger the processing. This is a unique solution in the legal electronic archiving market. The documents and data are stored on electronic document management (EDM) servers as well as in the company s management applications. These tools make it possible to implement advanced workflow solutions with real-time consultation. STS s TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM 14

17 The STS Suite product is a modular software solution based on Internet technologies that integrates classification, consultation and distribution of a fixed electronic document with or without its secure long-term probative value archiving. The archived document is managed through a client-specific record system and the STS Suite applications are compatible with all the application software on the market. The STS Suite solution utilizes Internet/Intranet technology and relies on the use of a database (index and images) hosted according to the client s preference: at the client or at a professional host, a Trusted Third Party. The STS Suite applications are installed on a server, and all that the user needs is a Web browser on his PC. The applications are based only on standard and well-known databases: SQL, Oracle and the Windows NT and Unix operating systems. What is unique about this offer is that it combines a dozen modules that each play a well-defined role. This modularity allows the STS Group to offer its users tailor-made solutions adapted to all types of requests. The STS Suite offer is now a global solution with no equivalent on the market owing to the integration of the electronic signature. It is sold as a license or in the form of flat annual fees, entitling the user to a set number of electronic views to be archived. This separates it from the very competitive EDM market, and positions it as a market leader in Legal Electronic Archiving. The STS Suite process: Capture, migration of content, from multiple sources. Paper documents, office applications (MS Office, Lotus, Fax, Multimedia, business applications, etc.), s and documents, other types of documents (images, films, programs, etc.). Archiving and retention Consultation and distribution: a multicriteria indexing engine allows any authorized person to quickly consult any type of document, based on a customized Web interface with distribution possible via various media: fax, and printer. Security: a certification path that includes probative or legal value. - Authenticity: the document is given unique fingerprint when it is created; - Integrity: once it is acquired, the document cannot be modified or deleted; - Longevity: the documents are retained in a usable format and their lifespan is respected; - Traceability: creation, consultation, distribution, publication, etc. An offer imposed by the legislative framework for probative value services Annual Report STS Group

18 SPOTLIGHT ON THE NEW SaaS OFFER SaaS stands for Software as a Service. This technology consists of providing services or software over the Web and no longer as part of an office or client-server application. This concept, which debuted in the early 2000s, picks up where the application service provider (ASP) idea left off. SaaS is an application delivery model in which the publisher develops a thin-client -type application and hosts the service for its clients who will use it via the Internet. The advantage of this model is that there is no need to purchase a license and the application maintenance, operation and hosting are offloaded. With SaaS, the IT solution is outsourced and the roll-out is faster. Pay-as-you-go means that expenditures can be adjusted based on the level of use and therefore on the company s activity, which leads to cost optimization. Because the software market is evolving, we have to rethink how our distribution methods. CHANGE IN FRENCH APPLICATION RENTAL MARKET % 620 M % 450 M M % change versus previous year Source: Markess International The SaaS or On Demand model now represents a fast-growing market. A fast growing market According to Markess, the online application market should see average annual growth of +24% to reach 1,480 million in the period. Gartner conducted a survey in which it reported that SaaS (software as a service) revenues on the enterprise market could reach $11.5 billion by 2011 versus approximately $5.7 billion in revenues expected for In a previous study, Gartner estimated that 25% of enterprise solutions worldwide will be distributed in SaaS form by SaaS is easy to use, the roll-out is fast, it requires little in terms of capital or human resources investments, it lowers administrative costs. It has all the qualities needed to replace traditional software packages and to continue to grow, says Sharon Mertz, Director of Research at Gartner. A particularly detailed study from Markess International, conducted with 200 users and 85 providers questioned between November 2006 and January 2007, shows that, regardless of a company s size, the reasons behind its decision to use SaaS solutions are always the same: to optimize the information system (49%), to find savings (47%), to pool costs (31%), to achieve greater flexibility (44%), to simplify the management of several sites (42%) and to support nomadic users (24%). By using tools, enterprises expect to facilitate user access (62%), avoid a long and costly roll-out (30%) it ranged from several weeks to three months for 64% of the user enterprises questioned and stagger the cost over the utilization period (29%) while reducing TCO (24%) and taking limited IT resources into account (21%). 16

19 STS Group, which is aware of the current challenges and opportunities this model is in fact revolutionizing the software sector, has developed an SaaS offer. It thus has access to a sizeable market, comprising large company accounts as well as SMEs/VSEs, the liberal professions and individuals, who are finding that this new offer is a solution that can meet their needs with rates more suited to their tighter budgets. This solution, developed with Publisher and Operator partners, offers numerous advantages and: allows STS Group to offer its client bases an additional high value-added service; gives STS Group a competitive advantage over rivals who do not yet have this offer; increases margins; strengthens STS Group s presence at clients and improves loyalty through long-term relationships (10 year archiving, etc.); provides a solution that generates immediate savings: the client makes no initial investment, thanks to the SaaS technology, and it sees immediate and significant operating gains (paper archiving is eliminated, indexed documents can be viewed immediately, etc.); offers partners or the operator recurring compensation for all the flows handled. Publishers (SaaS Europe project) Operators (Bossas project) Offering their clients additional value-added services BRUSSELS BAR ASSOCIATION First commercial successes LEADING CHINESE TELECOM OPERATOR Annual Report STS Group

20 AN EFFICIENT R&D POLICY STS Group has achieved its technological leadership with its patent filing and technological and legal monitoring policy. Each year, STS Group thus devotes approximately 20% of its sales to Research and Development. As such, STS Group has just: filed two new patents: - Electronic archiving procedure, notably remotely, for documents or objects - Double Condensate (Hash) filed the Record Retention Company trademark New projects are under way: Multiple AO, compressed (TGZ) Suite V4: Upper part, a single front-end processor Enhancement of the VP advantages in Dematerialization Lastly, given its expert offer positioning, STS Group participates in standards committees: Digital Safe Referential, CES Revision of the NF Z standard Evidence of STS Group s technological edge can be found in the large number of partners who choose to integrate STS Group s offer into their services. This know-how has also allowed it to propose a variety of business or enterprise function packaged on-site offers and thus expand its client portfolio. The business offers have been very successful, in particular with government bodies, insurance experts, real-estate managing agents, health-care establishments, mutual insurance companies, etc. The group has also established a technological road map for 2007/2008 which seeks to increase and strengthen the positioning of its offer. STS RAD/LAD STS VIP STS COLD STS STS Toolkit STS Toolkit STS Toolkit Partner referential Digital safe STS CES Logging SAVP Probative functions Digital safe STS CES Logging SAVP Probative functions Probative value STS CES Logging SAVP Probative functions STS HAL STS HAL STS HAL 18