Private Discuss is:
Launched in February 2020, Private Discuss, SaaS platform and private collaborative communication application, dedicated, tailor-made, encrypted, totally configurable, is developed and fully hosted in France (OVH). It competes with the largest platforms on the market.
- 100,000 professional and individual users in 5 months with solidarity digital access
- HD video quality as the best platforms on the market
- Virtual meetings up to 200 people
- Webinar up to 1,000 people with voting system, raised hands and questions/answers
- Recruitment of 40 additional engineers by September 2020
Launched in February 2020, Private Discuss, SaaS platform and private collaborative communication application, dedicated, tailor-made, encrypted, totally configurable, is developed and fully hosted in France (OVH). It competes with the largest platforms on the market.
Vioconference and teleworking solution from the Lyon company Piman Security, Private Discuss, unlike other tools, performs end-to-end encryption that is automatically active and, by default, both for conversations direct, as multiple channels, videoconferences or webinars. Only people who communicate can access the messages intended for them. Data encryption is performed on the user's client device before sending to the server. The “data” is therefore protected from the source transmitter to the recipient. The solution is obviously GDPR compliant.
"The encryption algorithms used by Private Discuss are Curve25519, AES 256 and HMAC-SHA-256 which ensure total confidentiality and exchange security and user data", specifies Nawfal Sikal, partner and expert in Cybersecurity of Piman Security, head of development teams. With HD video quality comparable to the best video conferencing platforms on the market, in addition to screen and file sharing (up to 5 GB per shipment), Private Discuss offers several new features, within the same solution:
- “Videoconference” up to 200 people in its best possible encrypted user experience: creation of “channels” by group of interlocutors, sending reports and todo list at the end of the meeting.
- “Webinar”: with access for 4 facilitators, 1,000 people can, at this stage, be connected, 5,000 by the end of July, with a goal of several tens of thousands at the end of the year.
- Animation functions very popular by users, mainly for general assemblies or evaluation meetings: the possibility of (having) voting and publishing questions and answers, live.
- An integrated administration console allows customers to manage the rights to use their platform themselves and to organize channels with their permanent or ad hoc guests.
“We will continue to add important features that go in the direction of virtualization, digitalization and dematerialization. The very latest version includes the implementation of webinars up to 1,000 people and soon 5,000 - following customer requests-, but also the possibility of carrying out general meetings with the associated votes”, explains Didier Dalod, associate director in charge of legal. The first virtual city council was held thanks to Private Discuss in an important town in Drôme in April. “With 10,000 users in 2 months of existence, i.e. before the health crisis, we offer Private Discuss for 3 months to companies, 6 months to VSEs and associations. For individuals, as well as artists and show professions, the use is free for 12 months. We thus wish to bring our digital solidarity to as many people as possible in a societal commitment”, announces Jean-Pierre Lach, president of Piman Security and Piman Group. “This May 1, Private Discuss thus crossed the milestone of 100,000 active users”. "With our 100% French solution and the consolidation of telework and collaborative work in a cyber-secure and modular environment, we aim to convince up to one million users before the end of the year", anticipates Jean-Vianney Dard, Associate Director in charge of cybersecurity at Private Discuss. “The security of our data and digital exchanges is an imperative societal issue. Private Discuss, supported by our group specializing in consulting, digital transformation and cybersecurity, wants to become the leading solution for videoconferencing, collaborative work and telework in France and in Europe”, concludes Jean-Pierre Lach. In the Rhône-Alpes region, despite the economic crisis, Private Discuss Just launched the recruitment of 40 new digital engineers in support of the current team.
- Available on all Android, iOS, Web, Linux, Windows and macOS platforms.