How Retarus Cloud Fax Can Benefit Your Business
Digital fax is an integral part of many business-critical processes and is used daily by thousands of companies. A thoroughly tested and standardized technology, digital faxing is easy to use and can be integrated into any system landscape. Digital faxing is secure and immune to viruses. Faxes can be traced from the moment they are sent to the instant of receipt and are legally binding. And by using Retarus’ cloud solution, you eliminate the need to spend time and money maintaining your fax infrastructure.
With Retarus Cloud Fax, you can easily automate paper-based or manual processes and sustainably optimize your workflow productivity. Retarus Cloud Fax streamlines your migration to All IP and supports you in modernizing and simplifying your IT infrastructure. Once connected to the Retarus Enterprise Cloud, you benefit from the scalability you need, maximum reliability, and the highest level of security. At the same time, your costs can be reduced by up to 70% compared to self-operated fax infrastructures.
Tap Into New Potential with Retarus as Your Enterprise Fax Provider
Whether you want to ensure the efficient and seamless transmission of patient data between healthcare organizations, or need to legally confirm transactions on the financial market — if it’s hundreds of thousands of orders that need to be transmitted to florists for Mother’s Day, or unstructured incoming documents that are required to be digitized and automatically transferred to downstream workflows and systems — Retarus Cloud Fax ensures a reliable flow of information at all times. Anywhere in the world. Inbound and outbound. With Retarus as enterprise fax provider, you comply with the highest requirements for availability and transaction security as well as industry- and country-specific regulations for data protection and data security such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and ENS. Increase efficiency and reduce costs with Retarus Cloud Fax now.
Fax Server Administrators Are Choosing Retarus Cloud Fax
Fax server administrators looking to secure their next career steps and free up resources for their organizations – all while improving fax performance, speed, and reliability – should look no further than Retarus’ best-in-class cloud fax solutions. Cloudification is not only an excellent way for server admins to streamline messaging infrastructures and cut costs – but also a unique professional development opportunity. By spearheading the cloudification process, fax server administrators are perfectly positioned to guide their organization’s cloud and messaging strategies, ensuring years of career development and a proactive role in their company’s growth.
Retarus also makes managing fax an easier, more transparent, and more centralized process. With clear, improved reporting, extensive automation, and high-class 24/7 support, as well as a fully functional interface which integrates seamlessly into the environment of your choice, you are empowered to set the terms of your organization’s messaging. And thanks to our customizable SLA
For fax server administrators wondering about their future role in an ever-changing landscape, Retarus is the perfect choice to make meaningful, productive changes to your organization’s messaging infrastructure – not to mention to position yourself as a valuable asset in determining your company’s cloud strategy.
Retarus is the technological leader for electronic enterprise communications. That means that we are excellently advised and equipped to deal with all future technological developments.
Willi Geißdörfer, Senior Manager Sales Services, Adidas
Smooth document transmission via fax is crucial in our operation with dealers.
Christoph Bungert, SAP Customer Service Center, Honda Motor Europe (North) GmbH
Retarus Mail2Fax not only saves us a significant amount of time, but it also helps us respond reliably and quickly to partners and insurance companies.
Stefan Bode, Director Information Technology, Avis SAP Customer Service Center
The Retarus Cloud Fax Services, in combination with the Datanet CTO tool, enable the automated provisioning and billing of our fax users. At the same time, we have been able to reduce our monthly fax costs considerably in comparison to our previous, server-based solution – especially with respect to maintenance, operation and licenses.
Siegfried Ocklenburg, Cluster IS Infrastructure Manager, ABB
Retarus and Symtrax provided us with a turnkey solution that we could test immediately under real production conditions. We were able to use the solution productively within two days.
Jean-Michel Brégeat, Head of Sales, Aigle
Discover the Advantages of Retarus Cloud Fax
Increase Productivity
Automate processes and seamlessly integrate fax into your applications and workflows. Digitize incoming documents and presort, forward, store, or process them automatically with smart routing options.
Reduce Costs
Retarus Cloud Fax lets you reduce or eliminate expenses related to telephony providers, fax servers, software, updates, administration, and maintenance by up to 70% compared to self-operated fax infrastructures.
Ensure Compliance
The Retarus Messaging Platform, with its auditable data centers, fulfills the most stringent regional and industry-specific requirements for data protection and data security, including HIPAA, GDPR, ISAE 3402 Type II, PCI-DSS, and many more.
Seamless Integration
Whether you use an ERH, ERP, or CRM system, Epic, SAP, Microsoft 365, or Salesforce, Retarus Cloud Fax seamlessly integrates with any business or cloud application thanks to open standards.
Custom SLAs
Choose the service level agreement that best meets your needs in terms of quality, support, and response time. We also offer customized SLA
Available Anytime
Retarus offers you maximum availability across multiple redundant data centers and provides you with the exact bandwidth you need, at any given point in time. Regardless of whether you send 1,000 faxes today and 1 million tomorrow.
Details That Make the Difference
OCR and Barcode Recognition
Retarus Cloud Fax enables you to seamlessly integrate faxing into your workflows. Read out information or barcodes from incoming documents with the OCR and barcode recognition feature and then use customized smart routing options to presort, forward, store, or process the documents automatically according to your rules.
Encryption at Rest and in Transit
Ensure highly secure online faxing communications. Connect to the Retarus Messaging Platform exclusively via encrypted connections (TLS, VPN). Cloud Fax will also sign and encrypt incoming fax documents for you upon request—depending on the file type per AES 256-bit, PGP, or X.509.
Real-time Monitoring
Check the status of your fax communications at any time using dashboards and detailed reports in the web-based Enterprise Administration Services Portal (EAS). In real time or in user-defined periods. For both outgoing and incoming faxes.
Intelligent Routing
Achieve up to 30% more throughput with Retarus Cloud Fax using our cloud fax API. Active Carrier Management in the Retarus Messaging Platform automatically uses the lines and carriers whose line quality and availability best match your fax job. With Retarus you can also send your fax from any application - quickly and reliably.
Long-Term Archiving
Ensure full compliance with industry-specific or statutory regulations. Retarus' long-term archiving helps your fax communications comply with the most stringent data security and integrity requirements.
Worldwide Fax Number Service
Receive faxes anywhere in the world with local numbers. Retarus provides service and call numbers on all continents that can be managed and assigned easily via a web-based administration portal (EAS). Additionally, porting existing fax numbers is possible at any time.
NeverBusy Technology
Reduce your fax transmission failure rate by up to 10% and reduce the administrative costs involved in manually processing your faxes. Retarus' NeverBusy Technology ensures that multiple faxes are never sent to the same recipient simultaneously. Thanks to this technology, even high volumes of incoming faxes are delivered immediately—no busy lines or capacity bottlenecks.
24x7x365 Follow-the-Sun Support
Experience first-class support built on our expertise. The Retarus Service and Support Team is here to help you solve problems, answer your questions, or help you find the right solution for your needs. Anywhere in the world. You can even be assigned a personal service manager upon request.
Retarus Cloud Fax Use Cases
Which Cloud Fax Service Meets Your Requirements?
Fax Inbound
Receiving Faxes via Applications or Web Services
With Retarus Fax2Application/Fax2Webservice, you can receive online fax documents as PDF or TIFF files via web service directly in your applications. Service options such as text and barcode recognition (OCR), signature or encryption, allow you to optimally integrate digitized documents in existing workflows so they are available immediately for automatic processing.
Receiving Faxes with FTP Servers
With Retarus Fax2FTP, you receive faxes as PDF or TIFF files on an FTP server. These documents can be simply and flexibly integrated in existing workflows and processes and automatically processed without having to be digitized later, which costs time and money.
Receiving Faxes with Email Clients
Retarus Fax2Mail is the smart solution for receiving faxes digitally. Your employees receive faxes as email attachments (PDF or TIFF) directly in your email client. You don’t need your own fax infrastructure and you eliminate costs associated with fax servers, maintenance, updates, and telco lines. An ideal solution for IP-based telecommunications infrastructures.
Receiving Faxes with Document Capture (OCR/ICR/IDR)
With Retarus Fax2EDI, you can digitize and automate analog receipt of documents and integrate business partners without EDI directly in your EDI processes. There is no need for manual entry of incoming documents and sources of error are kept to a minimum. You benefit from faster order processes, a faster cash flow and a cost benefit of approximately 60% compared to manual order entry.
Receiving Faxes with Multifunction Devices
Do you still need paper-based incoming faxes for your business processes? Print your documents with Retarus Fax2Printer directly from your network printers or multifunction devices. Upon request, we can deliver them simultaneously via email, for example, to archive them or integrate them in digital workflows.
Fax Outbound
Sending Faxes with Applications or APIs
Whether ERP or CRM, mobile or web application, Microsoft or Oracle, on-premises or in the cloud. With Retarus Faxolution for Applications, you can integrate your faxes in almost any business or cloud application, using standard interfaces and protocols such as SMTP, SFTP, and HTTPS or API
Learn more about Retarus Fax API
Sending Faxes with SAP
With Retarus Faxolution for SAP, you can send business documents such as quotations, order confirmations, and orders straight from your SAP or SAP S/4HANA application. Securely and according to your needs via Retarus’ SAP-certified Cloud Fax—seamlessly integrated per BC-SMTP in your SAP environment. Without system modifications, hardware and software installation, and without a fax server. But with almost unlimited faxing capacity. Ideal for batch processing with immediate notification of delivery status to the SAP system.
Sending Faxes with Epic
Connector API
With Retarus Faxolution for Epic, you can send all your Epic faxes including laboratory results, prescriptions, insurance claims and other documentations containing patient health information directly from your Epic application. Secure and with adherence to the industry compliance standards such as HIPAA, Cloud Fax for Epic integrates Retarus cloud fax seamlessly into your existing Epic environment. This is implemented without any system modifications, or software and hardware installations. Using Retarus you can increase your fax delivery rates and speeds thereby improving efficiencies and automating workflows.
You can find Retarus Faxolution for Epic in Connection Hub on Epic Showroom.
Learn more about Cloud Fax for Epic | Technical specifications
Scan and Send Faxes via MFDs and standard print interfaces through LRS
Connector APISMTP
LRS (Levi, Ray & Shoup) is a leading provider of Enterprise Output Management (EOM) software. The US company, based in Springfield, Illinois, has seamlessly integrated Retarus’ cloud fax output channel in VPSX EOM and MFPsecure/Scan. Accessible and pre-configured via REST API or SMTP adapter. As a result, the print-to-fax and scan-to-fax functions are available to customers directly in the VPSX UI and in the mobile app for any number of multi-function devices with all the well known benefits of Retarus’ Cloud Fax.
Scan and Send Faxes from MFDs through PaperCut
With Retarus Faxolution for PaperCut MF, you can send faxes through scan to fax functionality within your PaperCut MF Application. The integration supports secure authentication to the Retarus Cloud Fax service without leaving the PaperCut MF environment. PaperCut’s MF scan to fax can be implemented with PaperCut’s MF Basic experience (SMTP) and/or PaperCut’s MF Advanced experience (API Service), both of which are supported by Retarus Cloud Fax.
Sending Faxes from ActFax
ActFax supports fax transmissions from any workstation and application. Here, Retarus can provide the connection to the public telephone network via its enterprise-level cloud fax. This integration improves fax performance and scalability over the use of external modems, fax boards, and telco lines, which are no longer required. It also supports UCC or data center initiatives by eliminating the need for these legacy external components.
Sending Faxes with Email Clients
Sending Faxes with Windows Applications
Whether you are sending personalized individual faxes or numerous faxes with the Microsoft Word mail merge function, Retarus Faxolution for Windows allows you to send faxes directly from your desktop, from Microsoft Office, or any other Microsoft Windows application. Simply send your fax from any application – quickly and reliably with the Retarus Messaging Platform.
Sending Faxes with a Web Browser
With Retarus WebExpress, you can send faxes simply and easily from your web browser. Including management for templates, distribution lists, and blocklists. Compliant with the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). Its workflow-optimized design allows you to send faxes in no time. Upon request, a qualified Retarus Team can send faxes for you.
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