The Enterprise Stack

We are proud to introduce The Enterprise Stack by walt.id. Enabling businesses and governments to offer highly scalable, reliable and secure digital identity and wallet solutions across industries and ecosystems.

At walt.id, our goal has always been to make digital identity simple and to enable the mass adoption of decentralized identity and identity wallets. For this, organizations need tools that easily scale along market demands, deliver high up-time, ensure security and compliance with digital identity standards and regulations as well as allow for customization to promote flexibility and openness.

This is what the Enterprise Stack is about. It can be hosted on-premise, comes with enterprise-grade integrations and makes large-scale digital identity solutions possible in days, instead of months.

Let’s dive in.

The Developers’ Dilemma (Why The Enterprise Stack)

Over the last years we have worked with public and private sector clients around the globe. We built countless pilots, went to production with customers and got feedback from thousands of developers. All of these efforts culminated in The Community Stack, our leading open source digital identity and wallet infrastructure.

The Community Stack addresses a lot of the challenges developers face when building digital identity and wallet solutions or end-to-end use cases. It supports all major identity standards, multiple identity ecosystems and complies with open standards to maximize interoperability. But it has its limits. It still takes effort to build and maintain solutions that can scale. Large organizations as well as businesses who are building identity platforms or SaaS products need the ability to offer secure and robust services with high up-time, tools for process automation, monitoring and logging, integrations with third party systems and compliance with regulations.

To address these challenges, we built The Enterprise Stack. It enables governments and businesses of any size to build digital identity and wallet products or platforms at scale, fast and with ease.

The Enterprise Stack offers:

• Scalability & Persistence - Multi-tenancy and the option to run and sync as many enterprise instances in parallel as required for load distribution. A built-in data persistence layer keeps digital identity data synced and secure across deployments.

• Process Automation — Store issuance and verification configurations as re-usable flows providing a one-click issue and verify experience after first setup. Use webhooks to integrate external business logic into workflows and enable pre-built issuance and verification pages to make the delivery of credential offers and requests as easy as sending out an email.

• Logging & Analytics — View, track and export events and metrics like the number of issuance and verification requests, claimed credentials, active wallets and more. Filter data for specific credential formats, exchange protocols or ecosystems. Access audit logs and configure logging events to be streamed to various systems for more fine grained control.

• User Interfaces — Configure, manage and use digital identity services via a UI. Execute simple credential requests and offers or build more complex multi-step issuance and verification flows. View and export usage data via customisable analytics dashboards.

• Pre-built integrations — Use pre-built integrations to leverage and build on existing infrastructure and cut down integration overhead. Connect an external KMS for signature creation, IAM for user authentication, or external ID verifications for traditional onboarding among others.

• Security & Compliance — The Enterprise Stack was built to enable a robust and secure infrastructure. Fine-grained role-based authentication and permission system for user accounts and API keys ensures controlled usage of features. Continued integration tests and audits with other digital identity solution providers ensure compliance with regulations such as eIDAS2.

Community Stack vs. Enterprise Stack

The Community Stack is our open-source tooling for building digital identity solutions across industries and ecosystems. Our multi-platform-based approach offers libs and APIs for mobile, browser and server environments with a great developer experience, tested interoperability and example apps for various use-cases. It is used by thousands of developers, governments and businesses across industries and is a great way to get started, build your own use cases or apps for free.

The Enterprise Stack builds on top of The Community Stack. It adds enterprise capabilities like multi-tenancy support, logs, audits, external certifications, pre-built integrations, UIs, automations and more. As a result, the Enterprise Stack is a great option for large organizations - like governments and enterprises - and/or for businesses who want to offer new digital identity platforms or SaaS solutions that scale.

Finally, we made it easy to switch between The Community Stack and The Enterprise Stackt to make sure that everyone has the flexibility of moving between our product editions as required.  While the Enterprise Stack offers more features (i.e. more APIs) the core interfaces for our products (Issuer, Verifier, and Wallet) are similar or the same. Of course, we are also happy to help with migrations.

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Frequently Asked Question

• Are your products open source? Which license do you use?

  Yes, our core products are open source under the Apache 2 license. The Enterprise Stack and Cloud Platform include features and capabilities which are not open source (e.g. multi-tenancy, data persistence, audit logs, integrations).

• Do you offer support contracts?

  Yes, offer support contracts for the Community Stack and the Enterprise Stack. Contact us to learn more.

• Do you help with pilots or proof-of-concepts?

  You can build pilots with our open source solutions or contact us if you want support from our team.

• What is the difference between the Community Stack and the Enterprise Stack?

  The Enterprise Stack is more stable, robust, scalable, reliable and offers additional capabilities.

  • Multi-Tenancy to manage multiple projects, users and accounts within them.

  • Data persistence for DIDs, keys, sessions (OID4VC), logs, pre-defined issuance and verification requests.

  • Resource protection through authentication for offered APIs. 

  • Scalability based on multi-tenancy and multiple instances.

  • Pre-configured Issuance and verification requests to automate processes and user flows.

  • Audit & event logging (e.g. credential issuance or verification, active wallets, …) across Issuer, Wallet and Verifiers.

  • Integrations with third party services (that are not included in OSS) like ID verification, identity and access management, qualified trust services, KMS, data storage etc.

  • Admin UI that facilitates the use of the Enterprise Stack and offers analytics

  The Community Stack can support production-grade solutions, yet the Enterprise Stack offers advantages like richer features and integrations, faster time to market, less overhead (dev, maintenance), more reliability and stability, higher scalability, compliance with standards and regulations.

  You can learn more here.

• What is the difference between the Enterprise Stack and the Cloud Platform?

  Our identity and wallet infrastructure is available for different deployment options:
  1. Enterprise (Self-Managed): Customers can deploy, manage and run our solutions on-prem or in their cloud environments.
  2. Cloud Platform (SaaS): Customers can rely on our managed services and APIs - deployed and run by walt.id.

• I have other questions. How can I get in touch?

  If you have any other questions, you can contact us here.

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