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Setting up a data room is a crucial step in facilitating secure and efficient due diligence investigations during mergers and acquisitions, fundraising rounds, IPO's and other confidential transactions. But how do you set up a data room? This page tells you exactly how to successfully set up a data room.
Many companies are unaware of all that today's data room has to offer. Today, setting up a data room is faster and easier than ever before, especially with the right resources. As we said, setting up a data room does not have to be difficult. On the contrary, within minutes you can upload a complete folder structure to your own online environment, where colleagues and third parties can easily use it too. You’ll find the steps on how to set up a data room below.
What is a data room and when do I need one?
The first step of setting up a data room, is choosing a software platform! Choose a reputable data room provider that meets your needs in terms of security, functionality, and user-friendliness. Important factors to consider include:
After your registration, you will receive a welcome email from us with an invitation to open your data room. You’ll receive an onboarding training from our Customer Success Team to get you up to speed in no time.
Within the Virtual Vaults platform, advisors get their own organisation, this means you can also invite colleagues to join the platform and open an unlimited number of projects and data rooms to prepare and execute deals in a secure and structured environment.
Setting up a data room does not have to be complicated at all. In fact, you can upload an entire folder structure in no time into your own online environment that colleagues and third parties can also use. In addition, you maintain full control in the data room and can see in detail what actions users perform.
Once your data room is opened, you can set up your folder structure. Organise documents into folders and subfolders based on categories, departments, transactions, or other relevant criteria. Upload your favourite IRL to apply this structure for your questionnaire, save it as a template, or start building from scratch. Give files clear and descriptive names for easy searching and identification. Prefer to do a mass upload, mass rename or mass download? We got you covered!
With Workspaces, you can easily prepare your deal. It is the tool to optimise your deal preparation: easily collect relevant data, collaborate with your deal team, speed up the editing process, stay in control, hide sensitive data and export files to the data room.
Good preparation is half the battle! In the Workspaces environment, you prepare documents and get ready for the due diligence process. You can start preparing for new projects even before you sign a contract or a client is in sight.
When all documents are ready and you are ready for the due diligence process, simply export your data from Workspaces to our secure data room. Advisors are given the choice of who gets sent the invoice; the seller or the advisor.
Are all the documents ready for the due diligence process? Then the potential buyers can be invited onto the platform. Easily manage access for these guest users by creating roles, setting permissions, and thus manage access to all data at document level. This way, you keep control over who sees what and have easy insight into user statistics. Our data room also offers the options to watermark documents to ensure authenticity and prevent unauthorized distribution. You can even restrict printing, copying or downloading documents to limit unauthorized dissemination.
During the due diligence process, buyers have the opportunity to ask questions via the Q&A. As an admin, you have the option to designate different Q&A roles on the sell and buy side. In the Q&A dashboard, you easily assign questions to members of your team. This way, the questions get to the right person. The built-in reference model makes it easy for both buyer and seller to find out what the question or answer is about.
An audit trail usually contains thousands of records that can be difficult to analyse while you're at it. Our insightful dashboards tell you exactly how users are interacting with the documents in your data room and Q&A. Understand buyers' intentions better and negotiate smarter.
Deal closed? Time to close your data room too! You can do this immediately or schedule a closing date. The archive is an important closure of any deal, as it is a detailed record of your due diligence. This record contains all user activity on released documents and is safely stored onto an encrypted USB or in the cloud.
An online data room is a virtual repository that colleagues and external users can access via the Internet. Depending on the role and rights of a user, he/she can view documents within a controlled and secure environment. However, you are in control and determine which users can view which documents. This is all recorded in reports so that you are aware of everything that happens in the data room.
As the name suggests, a virtual data room is a place to store sensitive and confidential files. Being virtual means this information can be accessible from anywhere in the world. Companies that need to carry out due diligence and manage assets throughout their lifecycle typically use virtual data rooms. It’s also useful when entering into a variety of collaborations between business stakeholders. Some examples of this include M&A, Real Estate, Private Equity, Tender, Buy & Build, etc.
Essentially, a virtual data room offer specific sets of features such as advanced permissions, Q&A tool, multiple factor authentication and watermarking and will act as leverage in all sorts of projects that require secure and professional document storage, management and sharing.
You can set up a data room quickly and easily. You have access to a virtual data room via the internet. If you decide to open a Virtual Vaults' data room, you can immediately upload your folder structure in your own environment and, if desired, with the help of the Support Department. As soon as your structure is ready in the data room, you can invite unlimited external users to the roles you've created with different access rights.
Handy functionalities such as the Q&A module make it very easy to work together and smart reports keep you up to date and you know exactly who has viewed which document.
Traditionally a virtual data room's final costs are entirely dependent on two factors. The length of time you will need a virtual data room and the total amount of data storage required. More often than not this does require an estimated calculation of both time and storage needed, meaning on occasion you could incur data overage fees. However, at Virtual Vaults, we offer unlimited data storage for a single flat rate. Meaning you pay one price up front and you only need to decide on your subscription length period.
Virtual Vaults Data Room Unlimited plan offers specific sets of features such as advanced permissions, Q&A tool, multiple factor authentication and watermarking all within a secure data room with no data storage limitations. Unlimited data storage, unlimited features.