Sharing data securely in Data Space

Your virtual data room for Manufacturing-X:

Secure & confident data exchange

Get your company ready for the connected future of Industry 4.0: In our Learn and Explore environment, you will learn how to share data confidently and securely in modern data rooms, develop innovative use cases, and tap into new potential for your production.

✔︎ Secure ✔︎ Confident ✔︎ Connected

The virtual data room explained simply:

Imagine the virtual data room as a highly secure vault. Only those with the right key can enter—similar to a hotel room. In the vault, all important data is not only perfectly sorted, but also monitored around the clock to ensure that nothing is lost or falls into the wrong hands. Every visitor leaves a trace, every access is logged – just like in a high-tech archive that thinks, reads and protects.

The best part? You are the host and you decide who gets access to your vault and who can view which data there!

✶ You are the host!

✶ Only you allow data access!

✶ Your data is secure!

Your benefits at a glance:

Reduced complexity

Fewer technical hurdles – more focus on innovation.

Your company and your employees don't have to worry about the technical implementation or setup of the virtual data room and its security. Instead, you can concentrate directly on the development and integration of your own applications – e.g., for your supply chain processes and production or for greater sustainability.

Ready-to-use components

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The experimentation field provides you with ready-made building blocks—e.g., for formats for secure data exchange, authentication, and authorization. These are ready for immediate use and save you and your employees the time and effort of developing your own solutions.

Individual use of identities, wallets, and connectors

Confident data exchange—individual and secure.

Your company can use its own digital identities and wallets to share your data securely. Connectors enable connections to other systems and interfaces—individual and tailored to the specific use case.

The virtual data room at Smart System Hub: Your advantages

Simple, uncomplicated, location-independent access

Access your data securely anytime, anywhere—ideal for distributed teams and mobile work processes.

Quick start (setup within 24 hours)

Ready to go in just one day – keeping your project moving forward without technological delays.

Absolute data sovereignty, maximum data security

Keyword vault: Your data remains under your control—protected by state-of-the-art encryption technology and secure server locations.

Easy-to-use platform

An intuitive user interface allows you to use the platform with ease—without time-consuming training. Even less tech-savvy users and employees will find their way around immediately.

Individual administration for users

You can configure all user restrictions individually—our virtual data room allows you to grant precise access rights based on role, project phase, or security level.

Manufacturing-X/IDS/Gaia-X compliant

You get access to future-proof data rooms that comply with European standards—ideal for data-sovereign collaboration in industrial environments.

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Whether you're sharing technical data with suppliers, coordinating development statuses, or securing sensitive information, your virtual data room strengthens collaboration along the value chain.

✔︎ Easy access
✔︎ Quick start
✔︎ Intuitive platform

How does your company benefit from data exchange in a virtual data room?

In today's digitally connected industry, data is a key success factor. It permeates all areas of a company—from production and logistics to quality assurance. When this data is collected, consolidated, and analyzed, it makes workflows transparent, processes efficient, and forms the basis for new business models.

A virtual data room is therefore the central technological solution for enabling precisely that. It allows secure, controlled, and standardized data exchange—not only within your company, but also across company boundaries. This is particularly important in an increasingly collaborative world where digital value chains and partnerships are based on a reliable flow of information.

Accelerated innovation processes

Access to a broad network and efficient moderation of innovation processes by experts accelerate the development of ideas into market-ready products and services.

Cost efficiency

Co-innovation enables resources to be used more efficiently and costs to be shared, making the innovation process more cost-effective than independent developments.

Access to new technologies and expertise

Partners in the network often contribute specialized knowledge and technologies that may not be available to individual companies, which strengthens the technological basis and innovative power.

Quick implementation with existing standards

Thanks to initiatives such as IDS and Gaia-X, many of the technological and legal foundations have already been laid, facilitating rapid implementation.

Acting resiliently and sustainably

Manufacturing-X offers you and the industry the opportunity to increase your resilience to potential crises while operating more sustainably.

The virtual data room is thus becoming a key factor for modern industrial architectures—as the digital backbone for transparent, collaborative, and sustainable production.

Necessity

Why is a virtual data room indispensable today?

In the digital economy, data is the key raw material. Companies face the challenge of exchanging sensitive information with internal and external partners in a secure, structured, and controlled manner—often beyond the boundaries of the company. A virtual data room offers you the optimal solution for this: it ensures maximum security, traceability, and access control while increasing efficiency.

Especially in the context of Manufacturing-X and other data ecosystems, a virtual data room is indispensable for you to enable trustworthy digital value chains.

Use cases

Where is a virtual data room used?

Virtual data rooms are now used in a wide variety of industries, e.g.:

Mergers & acquisitions transactions (due diligence): Secure document exchange between buyers, sellers, and advisors in mergers and acquisitions.
Supply chain transparency: Data exchange along the value chain within the framework of Manufacturing-X.
Product development & research and development: Collaboration between OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), suppliers, and research partners with confidential data access.
Compliance & audits: Centralized, structured access to all relevant documents – audit-proof and GDPR-compliant.
Cooperation projects and joint ventures: Shared data rooms for project-related collaboration with clearly defined access rights.

Target group

Who can benefit from a virtual data room?

Virtual data rooms are industry-independent and are primarily aimed at companies, institutions, and organizations that want to manage or exchange sensitive data in a structured, secure, and efficient manner:

Industrial companies (e.g., mechanical engineering, automotive, electronics) that collaborate with partners in the digital supply chain
Medium-sized companies that participate in Manufacturing X initiatives or want to digitize their processes
Consulting and law firms that need structured, secure data rooms for client projects
Research institutions and development cooperatives that use shared data pools
Public institutions and consortia that share confidential data internally and with partners

A virtual data room creates trust, transparency, and speed—regardless of industry or company size. Come on board!

An important building block for Manufacturing-X:

Virtual data rooms

Data and information play a central role in the digital transformation. They are the foundation for efficient processes, intelligent products, and innovative business models. Virtual data rooms provide the technological basis for exchanging this data in a structured, secure manner while maintaining digital sovereignty—both within your company and in complex, cross-industry networks.

Foundation for trustworthy data ecosystems

Virtual data rooms are the backbone of future-proof data ecosystems – especially in the context of Manufacturing-X. They create standardized, secure interfaces between partners, suppliers, and customers. In doing so, they promote cross-industry transparency, strengthen collaboration, and help break down data silos. In particular, the ability to share data in a targeted manner while maintaining its integrity is a key building block for sustainable innovation processes and resilient industrial partnerships.

Added value through innovation and scalability

Virtual data rooms are much more than digital safes. They are agile, scalable platforms on which companies can develop new business models, analyze process data, and test sustainable solutions. As a modular component of the Manufacturing X architecture, they enable companies to enter the world of industrial data management – flexibly, securely, and efficiently. Companies that rely on virtual data rooms pave the way for greater competitiveness, innovative strength, and future security.

Conclusion: As a modular and scalable component of the Manufacturing X architecture, virtual data rooms enable you to smoothly enter the industrial data economy of the future.

Your data room, your rules – get started now!

With your virtual data room, you can grant completely secure access to technical data, documents, and information across company boundaries – laying the foundation for networked, trustworthy industrial processes in line with Manufacturing-X.