Acumatica Demonstrated Acronis Notary and Asign

Acronis International GmbH announced that global ERP vendor Acumatica, Inc., integrated Notary and ASign into its Cloud ERP platform to protect documents and ledgers with digital fingerprints and certificates of authenticity.

Notary and ASign brings benefits to Acumatica’s customers, partners, and ISVs by protecting data from tampering and therefore increasing long term compliance and transparency of all transactions.

The company is one of the first to make blockchain-based data verification ready for production environment. Both products are to use and to integrate into third-party services and applications through API, making the process of data certification simple and cost effective. Notary is available as a service for personal use and SOHO) businesses. It has the capacity to improve peer to peer collaboration by establishing trust.

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“Blockchain is going to revolutionize the relationship between customers and vendors” said Jon Roskill, CEO, Acumatica. “Stablishing a higher level of trust between different parties, all because documents and transactions can be easily traced and verified by any party and at any time. Acronis Notary and Acronis ASign fits perfectly into Acumatica’s business model as we enable small businesses around the world to meet the demand for compliance and operations transparency“.

How do Notary and ASign protect data from tampering?
Notary generates unique signatures of data and transactions and enters them into the global distributed blockchain database. Blockchain-secured data has provable integrity because the data is attributed to an irrefutable identity, is validated by all copies of the ledger, is always available, and can never be changed.

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ASign allows multiple parties to execute and certify a document with a secure and publicly auditable digital signature. ASign generates a unique certificate that contains images of the signatures, timestamps, and other information, providing an audit trail that can be at any time verified as authentic with the help of blockchain.

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Company’ blockchain-based data verification is a standard part of the firm’s data protection and storage products such as Acronis Storage and True Image 2017. It is designed for integration into third party services such as Acumatica and have vertical application in retail, service, and manufacturing.

“Growing threats to cyber security created a need for an unquestionable method to prove data integrity. Software vendors and customers look for an easy way to make sure that their data has not been tampered with. This is where Acronis Notary with its blockchain-backend comes into play. It is the most reliable technology available on the market today, and Acronis makes it easy for everyone,” said Serguei Beloussov, founder and CEO, Acronis.