Overview
Docbyte is a Ghent company founded in 2006 by Frederik Rosseel, who is its CEO. Docbyte provides qualified electronic archiving and long-term digital preservation through its Docbyte Vault platform, made up of the modules Vault Collect, Vault Ingest, Vault Admin, Vault Explorer and Vault Review. Around the platform it offers Digital Signature Preservation, Application Retirement, Digital Mailroom and Secure Document Collection services. Docbyte is a Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS for qualified electronic archiving and for the preservation of qualified electronic signatures and seals, and is listed on the EU Trusted List. It holds ISO 27001 certification, issued in October 2023, and is a NIS2 essential entity in Belgium. In November 2025 the Province of Antwerp selected Docbyte Vault for long-term preservation of its digital information, with the solution also made available to the province's 67 municipalities. Docbyte released Vault 25.3 in July 2025 and Vault 25.4 in November 2025, and sponsored iPRES 2024, the 20th International Conference on Digital Preservation, held in Ghent in September 2024. The company has 11-50 employees.
Stated facts & numbers
- Founded: 2006
- Founder and CEO: Frederik Rosseel
- Headquarters: Ghent
- Legal form: NV, enterprise number 0880.119.503
- Employees: 11-50
- Product: Docbyte Vault
- Status: Qualified Trust Service Provider (eIDAS), ISO 27001, NIS2 essential entity
- Customers: Argenta, P&V Group, Federale, Proximus, AZ Alma Hospital, Province of Antwerp
Key people
In the news
- One more weekend. Then iPRES 2026 begins. Docbyte is looking forward to five days of ideas, research and practical conversations about digital preservation in Copenhagen. Our team will be there to talk about digital archiving, application retirement, Qualified Electronic Archiving and the evidence organisations need to preserve for the long term. Come and see us at iPRES. Bring your questions, your challenges or simply your curiosity. Let’s make preservation practical. See you there! #iPRES2026 #DigitalPreservation
- Copenhagen, here we come. Docbyte will be at iPRES 2026 from 21 to 25 September, joining the international community working on digital preservation. We are looking forward to the conversations about keeping digital records usable, trustworthy and meaningful as systems, organisations and technologies change. If you are attending, come and see us. We would love to meet you, compare notes and talk about the next generation of digital preservation. See you in Copenhagen. #iPRES2026 #DigitalPreservation #DigitalArchiving #Docbyte
- DPP continuity is easiest to solve before the integration hardens. Agree the retained representation, product and version references, supporting evidence, access policy and handover route at design time. Those decisions cross the DPP platform, product-data provider and economic operator. Docbyte provides the independent preservation layer behind that operational flow. More detail is in the comments. #DigitalProductPassport #DataArchitecture
- A DPP continuity design is not finished until five questions have concrete owners and answers: • What exactly must remain retrievable? • Which evidence and schema context must travel with it? • How is the applicable version identified? • Who can retrieve it if the primary platform is unavailable? • What happens during a provider change or insolvency? Our short checklist helps teams test those decisions. Link in the comments. #DigitalProductPassport #DataContinuity
- Docbyte comic Vol.3: The Static is live. Wilbert has spent years keeping legacy systems alive. Then came the dashboards and AI. The Static follows Wilbert into his new life. Read Volume 3 in the first comment. #Docbyte #TheStatic #DigitalTrust #DigitalPreservation
- Fundamentals of Digital Preservation. Full house today for the Docbyte Vault Fundamentals training. A motivated group of users and partners, wanting to learn more about the concepts of Digital Preservation and eArchiving, its standards and regulations and what information should be collected. Our partner AMEXIO was in attendance with a big cohort. #eArchiving #dps
- The Static is coming. On Page 2, Wilbert sees what "faster" can mean when experience is no longer asked for. The next Docbyte story follows a systems expert who is made to feel obsolete. #Docbyte #TheStatic
- A valid hash does not give you a usable Digital Product Passport. It can prove that a specific version existed and remained intact. But if the live platform disappears, a regulator or successor provider still needs the passport data, version context, supporting documents and access rules. DPP evidence and DPP continuity are related controls. They are not the same control. The DPP continuity page is in the comments. #DigitalProductPassport #DigitalEvidence
Alumni 1 went on to found or lead
- PJohannes VermeireBusiness Development Manager→CEO & Co-founder at POM
Laurent CockerCustomer Success Lead
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