Digital and trust, two words not always closely associated together. That is, until now. In a world where tampering and hacking are persistent realities of our online world, the ability to verify documents with absolute certainty couldn’t be more crucial. TAAP’s Document Verification Service (DVS) is the solution to this problem.
It’s paramount to a wide range of industries to have the ability to assert, with absolute certainty, if documents have been altered. Be them blatantly obvious or almost indistinguishable modifications, having a tool at your fingertips that establishes whether two documents exactly mirror one another helps to provide assurance and confidence that the documents are trusted.
The testing, inspection and certification (TIC) sector provides a variety of services, ranging from auditing to testing to quality assurance, that all follow strict evidential protocols. Thanks to governments imposing an increasing number of strict standards and regulations, partly because of the rise in illicit trade of forged and pirated goods, the TIC market is growing, and fast. In 2020, the testing services segment accounted for the largest share of the overall TIC market. As such, it’s never been more important for clients to firmly trust TIC companies, and it’s never been more important for TIC companies to be able to trust themselves.
With operations taking place across a wide variety of industries (for example, automotive, oil and gas, agriculture), identifying and mitigating risk in these processes can be difficult to navigate and keep abreast of. Supported by strong recommendations from regulatory authorities, we’re in an environment that is demanding high-quality, safe, efficient products. TIC companies need increased assurance that their procedures and employees are performing properly, with no open gaps to their data-storage networks.
Let’s say a surveyor has been contracted out to a construction site to inspect equipment assets. They’re looking to ensure the business complies with relevant company and industry guidance. It’s a textbook job, and the employee carries out their usual manual tests and probes, making a record of their findings. But a few weeks, months, or even years, later, their inspection is questioned. It’s been flagged by a third party due to some data irregularities. How is the TIC company meant to justify if the record of flagged data differs to the original record?
This is where having our DVS comes into play; it’s been designed to provide confidence and total piece of mind about data’s authenticity. It complements compliance with regulations by reducing the risk of malicious alterations that could cover up non-compliance, fraud, or financial crimes. Such claims could end up in court, costing not only money but reputational damage too. The DVS provides evidence that is immutable by nature, helping to prevent legalities and ensure the upmost standards are held.
So, how does it work? Our platform is based on Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database Ledger which allows users to cryptographically attest to third parties that data hasn’t been tampered with. The DVS allows for documents of any type (from MS Word and Excel to videos and photos) and files of any size to be loaded into the system via an application programming interface (API). When a document is uploaded to the DVS, metadata specific to that document is created. A digital receipt is supplied to confirm the document’s successful upload; this contains a unique QR code that can also be scanned to verify that the document is successfully in the DVS, an additional level of assurance.
The Ledger has updateable tables; when a row is updated, the latest version of the row remains in the ledger table, while the earlier version is inserted into the history table. This happens transparently to the application, enabling users, partners, and auditors to analyse all historical operations to detect potential tampering. All documents are cryptographically encrypted and stored in tamper-proof cloud Blob storage, too.
Remember the data that was flagged earlier on? Well, now the two sources of information can be compared, the ‘suspicious’ data against the original data in the history table. And, if you realise that they do, indeed, differ, each row operation is accompanied by the ID of the transaction that performed it, so the user responsible can be easily identified.
TAAP’s DVS is an affordable, simple solution that strengthens trust between parties, giving businesses a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Additional cost, complexity, and performance overheads of decentralised blockchain technology are eliminated, while similar benefits, like tamper evidence and immutability, are still present.
If you’re ready to find out more, contact us today to find out how TAAP’s DVS can be implemented into your business.
Why TAAP?
Why would you build applications on TAAP?
The software industry promised you could digitise all your processes, become a data first organisation, embrace AI and transform into the business of the future. But is that really the full story?
It’s an exciting vision, but here’s the reality.
Just like the nuclear industry, software promises immense power and potential, but it also has a radioactive side.
Over time, software decays. It becomes harder to manage, each year its maintenance costs spiral. All software reaches a tipping point where it must be retired or completely rebuilt.
Software maintenance is its own master, touching every part of an organisation.
All of your software must be maintained all at once, reacting to Patches, updates, compatibility issues, and new vulnerabilities. You don’t control the timeline, your software does.
It consumes every available IT resource, restricts agility, and the more you digitise the worse it gets
And the cost? Maintaining software typically costs 7 to 10 times more than the initial cost of building it.
It drains your ability to innovate, to seize opportunities, to move at the speed of business and to remain competitive.
The dream of end-to-end digital transformation begins to fade. The vision becomes a fantasy. Software, once a symbol of progress, becomes a burden. Delays mount. Backlogs grow. New ideas are sidelined. Legacy software grinds your business to a halt, undermining your most critical asset: data.
It’s a self-perpetuating cycle, a workload-creation engine, creating lag, inefficiency, and operational drag.
This isn’t the future you imagined, but it’s how the software industry has operated for the last 50 to 70 years. It’s the unspoken cost of ownership, the law of diminishing returns.
There has to be a better way!
This is where TAAP steps in.
TAAP has shifted spend from maintenance to innovation, embracing an AI-centered future of evolving knowledge engineering.
Apps written to run on TAAP are free from legacy maintenance.
They can run for 10, 15, or more years, maintenance-free!
You can digitise everything and do so free from the burden of technical debt!
TAAP technologies allow you to leverage our AI-assisted designers to scope and define the solutions you require.
TAAP simplifies and accelerates the process of turning ideas into apps.
With TAAP you can build fully functional applications in seconds, not code snippets, but enterprise-grade applications with support for role-based access controls and Single Sign On right out of the box. This means you can operate at enterprise scale giving the right people permissions to access and use the apps they require.
You can now truly become a digital-first organisation.
You can have tremendous flexibility over how you can build apps and target different types of deployments, cloud, on-premise, on-device, even fully offline.
You can develop and release an unlimited number of processes and at different release cadence.
TAAP has been engineered to allow organisations to embrace software at scale across departments, for SMEs, national and global enterprise, and in multiple languages.
Our generative technologies are deterministic, allowing you to digitise any process without compromise, built how you want, bug free, with zero maintenance, whilst providing access to your source code and IP.
Engineered for frictionless scale-out via the Microsoft commercial marketplace, customers from over 170 markets can directly start building applications on TAAP with a click of a button.
Commercialised to be inclusive for consultancies, ISVs, SIs, and product companies to benefit from this technology. Creating their own IP on TAAP, licensing and protecting their margins and value within a new and modernising software industry.
With low-cost licensing, we encourage you to digitise everything, and we don’t penalize or restrict you from wanting to digitise it all
This is a tectonic shift to the way in which software can be envisioned and leveraged for the future. We are driving the next stage of evolution for the software industry, reducing the time to value and bringing quicker results, improved quality, and lower costs
It’s almost too good to be true, but that’s our vision, allowing the world to embrace software and elevating the way technology can help humanity grow and evolve. We are changing the rules of how the software industry has operated so far.
TAAP delivers the future the software industry promised, but struggled to deliver.
TAAP can help you simplify complexity, accelerate performance, and achieve results—fast.
Click the link and contact us today to start your digital transformation with TAAP!
