The city of Cologne focuses on security
stashcat in the city administration: Our messenger offers the city of Cologne an all-round secure organization and communication platform that covers all functions.
Due to its ease of use and secure end-to-end encryption, the crisis management team of the Cologne city administration works with stashcat. As a central platform, the messenger ensures the secure exchange of protocols and documents during crisis meetings. The technology makes it possible to communicate across organizations and coordinate with those responsible.
Facts

Number of users: 10,000 - 20,000
Location: Cologne, Germany
Sector: Public authority, municipality, city, administration

The city of Cologne in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia with around 1.1 million inhabitants is the fourth largest municipality in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is clear that this involves a lot of administrative work, but how does the city administration communicate with each other? When it comes to communication, it relies on the GDPR-compliant High Secure Messenger stashcat, which connects all employees quickly and easily.


www.stadt-koeln.de


City of Cologne
"stashcat is absolutely essential for the administration of the City of Cologne and offers us a data protection-compliant and secure solution for our work."

Office for Information Processing, Deputy Head of Office

The city of Cologne benefits from these functions

Always up-to-date

The City of Cologne has several specialist areas and departments that communicate with each other. stashcat offers the solution to this challenge with individual and group chats as well as specific channels. Information thus reaches the right recipient in a targeted manner and is visible to all persons concerned.

Share data

Documents, files, photos and videos can be shared in the groups and channels provided for this purpose. Each user has their own file storage where files can be stored, accessed and used at any time. This means that the most important data is always available on any end device. If desired, these can also be made available to external users without a stashcat account via a link.

Desktop, Web or App

City administration from home with just one application? - stashcat contains all the important tools you need to be connected anytime, anywhere. Whether on the road, in the home office or at work - all employees can be reached anywhere via desktop, web or app. All without having to exchange private cell phone numbers.

City of Cologne
"The central communication tool enables an immediate exchange with all those involved. All members of the crisis team have a good overview!"

Office for Information Processing, Deputy Head of Office

Use Case: stashcat in action
Documents in the file storage

Minutes, transcripts, decrees and other files are created or made available during the crisis team meetings. All confidential documents are stored exclusively in the stashcat file repository.

Exchange via group chat

Users can share important information in the group chat via the "crisis team" #channel. The members of the crisis team are constantly informed of new information and have access to all important documents.

Receive information anytime and anywhere

Employees can access the information from all their end devices - be it a desktop PC from the office or a smartphone on the move.

Share documents

The Cologne Fire Department needs an important document that can be shared quickly and directly from the file repository in real time via stashcat.

City of Cologne
"For the City of Cologne, stashcat is a user-friendly solution thanks to its low-threshold access and intuitive handling, which means that no training is required for users. What e-mail and telephone cannot achieve is usefully supplemented by the messenger."

Office for Information Processing, Deputy Head of Office