SafeGuard SignatureServer

Security solution for generating qualified digital signatures

Every year, millions of invoices are created electronically and then are printed to be sent by mail. Recipients then transfer the relevant data into their ERP system either manually or by using text recognition software so they can verify the invoice and authorize the payment.

The entire process involves a great deal of time, resources, and effort because invoice data must be entered and checked more than once. The electronic handling of all invoicing management procedures offers significant benefits and potential for cost reduction, but in accordance with legal requirements, sales tax calculations are only valid if they have been assigned a qualified digital signature by a SafeGuard SignatureServer.

Utimaco offers two versions of the SafeGuard SignatureServer , and both are easy to integrate into existing business processes and applications.

• The SignatureServer SmartCard is the central, automatic, and easy-to-use solution for the simple mass generation of digital signatures to send electronic invoices. This technology offers anyone who creates and receives invoices a range of entirely new options for improving business processes and saving time and money. Using the SignatureServer SmartCard not only completely automates and optimizes business processes, but also makes pre-tax (sales tax) calculations valid immediately by using this cutting-edge solution to create electronic invoices.
  
  
• The SignatureServer SmartCard for SAP is the automatic central solution for the mass generation of qualified digital signatures which can be fully integrated in all SAP applications. Applications such as electronic invoicing, the revision-proof archiving of documents and data, and the securing of sensitive healthcare data and of applications in government bodies and local authorities (taxes, justice, purchasing/procurement) can all be completely automated and optimized using this new technology.
  Using the Secure Store and Forward (SSF) interface of the SAP Business-Connector (BC-SSF), the SignatureServer SmartCard for SAP data and documents can be signed and encrypted directly in mySAP.com® applications. The scalability of the solution provides customers with significant investment protection. At the same time, the ease and speed with which the SignatureServer SmartCard for SAP can be integrated in SAP applications gives users the very best means of optimizing their work and saving both time and money.