Challenges for Acerta Consult

Our whistleblower reporting tool IntegrityLog has been adopted by numerous European businesses to create a digital platform through which employees can report wrongdoing.

The company has also developed a number of partnerships with reselling partners across the EU. These are generally organisations that can utilise IntegrityLog to enhance their offering to their own customers.

One of these firms is Belgian HR service provider, Acerta Consult. With the implementation of the country’s Whistleblower Act (Belgium’s transposition of the EU Whistleblowing Directive), one of Acerta Consult’s priorities was to equip its clients with all the resources they needed to meet their new obligations.

Offering IntegrityLog helps Acerta Consult’s clients maintain compliance with the Whistleblower Act, as well as fostering an ethical internal culture that improves employee morale and reduces misconduct

To be able to best serve the company’s clients, Acerta Consult wanted to offer an internal reporting channel that would meet the obligations of the new whistleblowing law. The solution would also have to adhere to other EU legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Another consideration was cybersecurity. Given cybercrime cost businesses just less than €10 billion in 2021-22, Acerta Consult had to make sure any digital tool it supplied its clients would not compromise their systems.

After searching for the ideal whistleblowing solution to offer to customers, Florence Cordonnier – Acerta Consult’s Manager of Legal Consult – explained that the company tried out the IntegrityLog platform and liked what they saw.

Euronext Technologies, which monitors IntegrityLog and the other Euronext solutions, holds an ISO certificate and this was a key consideration when seeking a partnership. Being able to prove the product meets the statutory and regulatory requirements is of utmost importance when providing human resources support for businesses. Florence commented that many of the other options on the market lacked this reassurance, and that factored into the decision.

As with the other solutions under consideration, IntegrityLog underwent a thorough inspection from Acerta Consult’s IT department. Where the experts raised questions about some solutions, Florence Cordonnier confirmed that IntegrityLog passed their stringent evaluation.