Solution Description

Any business application can send out e-documents in place of paper, however in order to ensure authenticity and trust, it’s important to digitally sign the documents before they are sent externally. The organisation’s reputation and brand protection can also be better protected if fraudulent documents are easy to detect. Legislation such as the EU VAT Directive also provide a business driver. There are several ways in which digital signatures can be applied to outgoing documents. Typically the signature format will be XML DSig (including XAdES) and/or PDF Signatures (including PAdES).

Signing thousands or millions of documents is not something that can be done manually by administrators. For such use cases an automated server-side solution is required as illustrated below:

ADSS Server can be easily integrated with any business document production environment using our Watched Folder application called ADSS Auto File Processor, or our high-level Java and .NET ADSS Client SDKs or via direct XML/SOAP web service calls or even email integration using ADSS Secure Email Server. Signed documents can be archived by making calls to the Ascertia ADSS Archive Server.

Sending out signed documents is only half of the story, for automated verification of incoming signed documents (e.g. received e-invoices) the following solution is offered:

ADSS Server can verify many different digital signature formats, similarly it can validate certificates from any registered Certificate Authority (CA) in real-time or using historic signature validation service. The business application can also securely archive the signed document and the verification process data using Ascertia ADSS Archive Server.