Strängnäs municipality, like many other municipalities, has sensitive data that for various reasons is not suitable for storage in foreign systems. When the municipal audit needed a mobile tool to store, share and collaborate on files, the choice fell on Swedish Storegate.

Mats Lange, procurement officer at Strängnäs municipality, explains:

Procuring cloud services is more than just saving money. In addition to creating an efficient and modern way of working for employees, it is also important to comply with current and future legislation. We soon realized that there was a lot of uncertainty about what the legislation will look like over time, especially given the GDPR, the CLOUD Act and eSam’s expert opinion on the use of cloud services in the public sector.

Mats Lange, procurement officer at Strängnäs municipality

With digitalization comes tough regulatory requirements for how information should be managed in the cloud. Storegate’s Swedish cloud service is adapted and approved according to the requirements for data storage according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDRP) and is approved by the eSamverkansprogrammet as a supplier for secure storage and file sharing in the cloud for the public sector.

Strängnäs not alone, high demand from public sector

We have many requests from the public sector right now. They realize they don’t have time to keep their staff waiting for legislation to catch up. According to industry analysts, it could take up to 12 years before new legislation is in place. At the same time, users are clamoring for modern work tools. Torbjörn Lindkvist, Business Area Manager at Storegate AB.

Torbjörn Lindkvist, Business Area Manager at Storegate AB