Legal certainty from the cloud

TrustWeaver On Demand is a comprehensive security compliance service based on a unique legal and B2B integration concept. The purpose of the service is to provide access to a complete but modular set of legal compliance functions through a single technical interface. Each of the TrustWeaver On Demand services offered is connected to a unique Compliance Map in which the requirements and compliant solution features for the signing, archiving, invoice content and archiving services are documented for 39 countries. By mixing and matching On Demand services, trading partners and the providers of their exchange platforms can completely outsource their specific legal compliance issues to a single expert service in the cloud.

TrustWeaver's unique blend of legal and technical components allows modern corporations to execute their ERP, workflow, archiving and B2B consolidation strategies with guaranteed respect for the multiple national and sectoral laws governing such data flows as well as their long-term retention and auditability. This unique digital certainty consolidation concept always comes with unambiguous TrustWeaver commitments to ensure the desired level of confidence.

Below is a summary of TrustWeaver On Demand features, as well as supported standards and best practices for compliant B2B deployment across many countries and industries:

The TrustWeaver On Demand platform

Technology and hosting environment

  1. Straightforward web-services integration
  2. Environments for development, testing, stage testing and production
  3. Robustness and availability ensured through multi server and multi datacenter redundancy and load balancing
  4. Interoperability with well known trusted third parties and signature service providers

Quality, security and auditing

  1. Based on extensive research and solid working relationships with tax and other law enforcement and regulatory bodies in many countries
  2. A Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 Type II (SAS 70 Type II) report is issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers annually

Compliance MapTM - an understanding of local legislation

  1. Complete requirement description for all supported countries
  2. Maintained through local law firm and expert relationships
  3. Basis for tax authority documentation - always up-to-date detailed compliance
  4. End-to-end process analysis including domestic and cross-border flows

Template agreements, authorizations and notices

  1. Modular legal text components to integrate into agreements
  2. Full agreement templates for a number of relationships based on a cooperation with Delphi Law Firm, one of Sweden's largest commercially oriented law firms
  3. Sample texts for e.g. web interfaces (notifications, online contract enforceability building blocks)

TrustWeaver-SigningTM

Digital signatures - accepted globally

  1. Qualified, advanced or other legally defined digital signature types as required
  2. Signatures according to the origin and destination of transactions
  3. Signatures using certificates from 18 different Certificate Authorities
  4. Signature time-stamps

Digital signature validation - proven interoperability

  1. Cryptographic verification of signatures
  2. Certificate validation using an international on-line network of Certification Authority partners

Signature time-stamps - irrefutable evidence of signing or validation time

  1. An independant secure software service
  2. Provides secure time-stamps to Trust Weaver On Demand
  3. Used to provide signature time-stamps on invoices
  4. Used to provide archive time-stamps for anchoring validation data to an invoice in time

TrustWeaver-TimeStampITTM

  1. Integrated in the back-end with a CNIPA-compliant Italian Time-Stamp Authority
  2. Full process including local Italian qualified electronic signatures to meet the pre-archiving rules for fiscally relevant documents
  3. Used to provide signature time-stamps on invoices

TrustWeaver-ArchivingTM

This new service is now being beta-tested by key TrustWeaver customers, with general availability planned for December 2010. Features include:

  1. Guaranteed compliant storage in 39 countries
  2. Automatic archiving in the backend of signing or validation calls or through a separate programmatic interface for direct storage
  3. Web or programmatic interface for retrieval of archived invoices
  4. Support for storage and association of additional documents such as PO's, delivery notes, contracts or audit reports
  5. Storage period of applicable VAT and/or accounting law automatically respected
  6. Cloud escrow possible
  7. Optional encryption of data

TrustWeaver-ContentTM

The TrustWeaver-Content service is currently being launched as a subscription-based knowledge service. New features will be introduced throughout 2010 and 2011 to offer a completely outsourced requirement and control definition service for all TrustWeaver On Demand-supported countries. Features include:

  1. VAT and commercial law mandatory invoice requirements clearly documented and maintained over time
  2. Easily implementable control descriptions for implementing the requirements
  3. Static as well as conditional (process-dependent) requirements
  4. Implementation Guide

TrustWeaver-AuditTM

  1. Simple browser-based Audit web page or high performance on-line web service
  2. Shows ongoing signature integrity and certificate validity at time of signing
  3. Shows ongoing integrity and authenticity evidenced through other means (associated business documents or third party assurances) where applicable
  4. Audit web page displays invoice in human-readable format
  5. Multi-language support

A long list of supported standards and good practices

TrustWeaver supports all country- or industry-specific standards, good practice definitions and formats that companies need for a quick international rollout. Our vision is based on a 360-degree understanding of the integration companies need between rules, technology and business processes - these elements are tied together in an automated process and always based on a fully integrated Compliance MapTM detailing country-specific compliance for the end-to-end process:

Support for 18 locally accredited Certification Authorities - qualified, advanced and specific local signature levels.

Need to send electronic invoices to the Spanish public sector? TrustWeaver On Demand supports Factura-e signatures.

New -- support for the imminent French industry standard for Art 289-v CGI interoperable signature processes.

EANCOM electronic signatures for EDIFACT messages.

Italian pre-archival time-stamps and qualified electronic signatures based on CNIPA-approved services.

Time-stamps, XAdES and CAdES (-T and -A forms) long-term verifiable signatures based on extensive signing and validation policies.

Qualified electronic signatures fully certified by the German Bundesnetzagentur.

CEN E-Invoicing Guidelines-enabled based on full self-assessment.

Electronic signatures for medical systems in compliance with 21 CFR 211.

Electronic signatures for 'double electronique' under DGI instruction 3 E-1-07.