What is NOVA?
A solution to effortlessly manage all your company certificates in one place.
It has the potential to save your company at least 8h of work/week, having an all in one solution of storing, visualising and retrieving the certificates of the partners of your company or even other available certificates to the pool, while also making your certificates available to the chosen partners.
Nova also includes company profiles as described here: https://intercom-help.eu/cofinity-x/en/articles/242024-nova-create-a-company-profile
The standard behind DOS Nova Certificate Management is:
After successfully signing up to NOVA and configuring your instance(https://intercom-help.eu/cofinity-x/en/collections/603889-journey-to-seamless-data-exchange ), the functionalities of NOVA can be used!
1. Company certificates
Version represents the year in which the certificate has been issued.
Adding a certificate with the option to have validity for only for a specific time frame(about to expired will be flagged)
Last step: upload the certificate as a pdf.
2. Site settings
Whether the certificate applies to a certain site or to multiple sites can be selected:
Partners to share with
With which partner/s are you sharing the certificate:
You can select Yes, then it is for all network partners or No and mention the specific Business Partner Number( BPN).
4.Validate data and publish:
Main Idea behind: a company's certificates can be pulled from that company's EDCs.
Partner certificates
How to get the certificate/s of a certain partner?
What happens behind the interface? The EDC of that partner is searched -> if there are multiple, the catalog of each one is pulled and fetched all certificates available either to the requester only or to the entire network.
Result:
Filtering options:
The certificate/s selected will be transferred:
After completion, it will be possible to visualize the metadata of the certificates and the actual pdf/s:
Manual retrieval of certificates(Technical details)
Here are the details of the certificate shared via Cofinity-X Dataspace OS Nova from one of our test companies (Arnsburg Apotheke):
The response you receive is a normal JSON file
Within the JSON, the value for the "contentBase64" key is a base64 encoded pdf file.
You can use a simple base64 decoder such as https://base64.guru/converter/decode/pdf
The pdf can also be retrieved programmatically by stripping the contentbase64 value from the
data:application/pdf;base64, prefix.
Store the stripped payload as, e.g., payload-base64.dat and decode it with simple ubuntu base64 command like so:
cat payload-base64.dat | base64 --decode > file.pdf
Note: the file names are mere examples.
Main benefits of NOVA are:
a. automatically updates in multiple locations a certificate avoiding manual work.
b. possibility of quickly having an overview on upcoming expiring certificates or already expired.
c. centralized location for all suppliers/tiers certificate information.