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NEXTCLOUD FOR FINANCIAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Confidential work. Confident collaboration.

Share client information and coordinate professional teams within a clearly governed environment.

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Who uses the workspace

Keep each client engagement separate and easy to hand over.

Client intake, review and delivery can span several teams and systems. Use a workspace per engagement with clear rules for client access, internal working files and final deliverables.

Client-facing teams

Agree which documents to request, where the client uploads them and who confirms receipt. Keep intake organized by engagement instead of passing confidential files through email chains.

Advisory and delivery teams

Separate client-provided records, working documents and approved deliverables. Assign a named owner for the workspace and agree which colleagues can share files externally.

Reviewers and partners

Use a defined review copy and keep comments with the draft. Identify who authorizes delivery and which version the client should receive.

Risk, compliance and IT

Review administrator access, retention, external sharing and restore responsibilities. Agree what evidence to keep and how exceptions will be reviewed.

A practical workflow

Run a client document exchange from intake to closure.

  1. Request the agreed documents

    Create a dedicated intake location and decide whether the client needs a named account or a controlled upload link. Test that the client sees only what the process requires.

  2. Review the working material

    Give the engagement team the access it needs and track which documents are ready for review. Use supported co-editing where it fits your review process.

  3. Deliver an approved version

    Move the approved files into a separate delivery location. Check the recipient, permitted actions and expiry before opening access.

  4. Close and retain the engagement

    Remove temporary access, transfer ownership and retain the agreed records. Confirm how to export or restore a sample engagement file when required.

Nextcloud in practice

Tools for confidential client work.

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Nextcloud Talk

Coordinate internal reviews or meetings with invited participants, within agreed access rules.

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Security & Data Protection

Client confidentiality. Operational resilience.

Client matters need clear ownership and controlled exchange. Use an agreed private workspace to support confidentiality, access reviews and recoverable collaboration.

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  1. Engagement boundaries

    Separate client teams and external advisers.

  2. Secure exchange

    Configure authentication and sharing permissions.

  3. Reviewable access

    Keep configured logs for investigation and review.

  4. Operational readiness

    Define backups, restoration tests and provider responsibilities.

In a client engagement

Separate confidential client work.

Give an engagement team access to its own workspace and offer the client an agreed channel to upload documents. Before closing the engagement, remove temporary access, confirm who owns the records and apply the agreed retention process.

Applicable requirements

Set the rules for your deployment.

  • Privacy: ZZPL & GDPR. Client files can combine identity, financial and other sensitive information. Define lawful processing, minimum access, retention and transfer arrangements for each engagement. Serbia’s ZZPL and the EU GDPR have separate scopes. Serbian ZZPL ↗ · EU GDPR ↗
  • Serbian financial institutions. Covered financial institutions must assess the NBS Decision on Minimum ICT System Management Standards (102/2024), applicable from 1 January 2026. Nextcloud is one component of broader ICT risk, continuity and provider governance. NBS: current ICT regulations ↗
  • DORA & professional duties. DORA applies to covered EU financial entities, not every advisory or professional-services firm. Assess ICT provider, incident and resilience obligations where applicable; professional confidentiality and retention duties require their own assessment. ESMA: DORA ↗

Nextcloud security ↗ · Nextcloud compliance ↗ · Serbian Information Security Law (91/2025) ↗ · NIS2 scope ↗

YOUR PLATFORM. YOUR OPERATING MODEL.

Enterprise foundations.
Managed to your needs.

Choose who operates the platform. We define the deployment, responsibilities and support scope with you before implementation.

YOUR IT TEAM OPERATES

Nextcloud Enterprise

For organizations that want to run Nextcloud on their own or agreed private infrastructure.

  • Architecture and Enterprise subscription planning
  • Identity, storage and security integration
  • Migration, configuration and administrator handover
  • Support aligned with the selected subscription
Discuss Enterprise →
AGREED OPERATIONS BY NATIVITY

Managed Nextcloud

For teams that want a defined operational service alongside their collaboration platform.

  • Hosting location and access boundaries agreed with you
  • Monitoring, maintenance and update responsibilities
  • Backup and recovery scope with restoration checks
  • User support, capacity reviews and service reporting
Discuss Managed →

Proposed service scope. Hosting, subscription, response times, recovery objectives and pricing are confirmed in the written offer. Managed service is an operating model; it can include Nextcloud Enterprise.

QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU START

Clear expectations from day one.

How do we keep client engagements separate?

Create a dedicated workspace per client or engagement, with access assigned to the team that needs it. Define who can create workspaces, add a colleague and approve external sharing.

Test separation with representative accounts for two engagements. Include engagement closure, personnel changes and the treatment of retained copies after the workspace is archived.

Can clients upload confidential documents?

Design the collection process around the client and the sensitivity of the documents. For example, agree whether the client should use a named account or a controlled upload link, who receives the files and when that access expires.

Test from a client account before launch. Check what the client can see, where uploads land and how your team confirms receipt without exposing other engagement material.

What will our risk or compliance team need to review?

Bring the requirements that apply to your firm and its client engagements, including retention, administrator access, activity logging and the handling of incidents. Set clear ownership for each control.

Review the agreed hosting and support model alongside the configuration. Test a representative access review, document export and restoration so the team can see what evidence the deployment can produce.

Where will our data be hosted?

Choose between infrastructure you operate and a hosting environment agreed during solution design. Before deployment, we document where primary files and backups reside, who can administer each system and how data is exported or restored.

If your procurement or contracts specify a country, a provider or limits on remote support access, bring those requirements to the design review. We confirm them against the proposed deployment and service terms.

Start with one workflow

Plan the pilot before you scale.

  1. Discover

    Choose one engagement type and map client intake, internal review and delivery.

  2. Pilot

    Test separation between two sample engagements, client upload and access revocation.

  3. Roll out

    Confirm retention ownership, export and recovery with the teams responsible before scaling.

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CASE STUDIES & CUSTOMER STORIES

Case studies

Explore real deployments and the workflows behind them. Each example links to its original publisher.

Germany · Banking

Stadtsparkasse Munich

The Munich bank uses Nextcloud for exchanging confidential information with customers. The published case credits HKN for the collaboration platform and its regional hosting approach.

Official case study · Published by Nextcloud · Partner: HKNRead the Nextcloud story ↗

Greece · Audit & advisory

Crowe Greece

The audit and advisory firm deployed Nextcloud Enterprise on premises to improve document exchange, version history and remote access, with administrative control across departments.

Official customer story · Published by NextcloudRead the Nextcloud story ↗

Germany · Creative services

Jung von Matt

The creative agency modernized on-premises collaboration for macOS users and complex creative files. This professional-services example covers file performance, integrations and control over shared work.

Official case study · Published by NextcloudRead the Nextcloud story ↗

These are external Nextcloud customer references or stories published by the named implementation providers. They are not presented as NATIVITY implementations. Related engineering examples are labelled separately; individual outcomes depend on the deployment.