Use Cases
Status: Planned
Use Cases
Section titled “Use Cases”OPTEROM is intended to provide useful network capabilities outside its own country portals, as well as within them. Businesses should be able to participate through familiar software, and independent developers should be able to verify claims without adopting a whole OPTEROM application suite.
Start with a concrete business problem
Section titled “Start with a concrete business problem”A procurement system receives a business message. Can it verify the company, the representative authority behind the message, and the message’s integrity?
A buyer researches an unfamiliar supplier, distinguishes official company facts from promotional claims, and asks the appropriate authorized contact for a quotation.
An ERP, accounting service or AI-assisted procurement tool wants business verification without replacing its own interface or forcing its users into another product.
Two strong business outcomes
Section titled “Two strong business outcomes”Authenticate information a business publishes. A company-issued specification, announcement or product statement can carry verifiable origin, authorized publisher context and a traceable revision history.
Reuse supplier qualifications. Business registration facts, supplier-declared capabilities and independently issued audit credentials can be linked and shared with buyers without turning separate sources into one unsupported trust claim.
These experiences use the same company identity and evidence concepts, so independent procurement, publishing and verification software can build on them.
Global exchange and invoicing
Section titled “Global exchange and invoicing”Businesses across jurisdictions can send signed invoices, purchase orders and related documents directly through OPTEROM. Peppol, national standards, email and accounting services become additional interoperability routes selected when needed.
The business action retains its company identity, authority, original document and event history across routes.
Additional product directions
Section titled “Additional product directions”- Company-issued content provenance: confirm the source and integrity of a company’s announcements, catalogues and statements.
- Authorized agent actions: let an agent prepare work under scoped company permissions without silently committing the company.
- Supply-chain event provenance: connect participating companies to attributable product, inspection or handover events.
- Independent evidence contribution: enable outside organizations to supply clearly attributed observations with their own credibility and correction history.
- Authenticated business email: let recipients verify exact company-authorized communications through ordinary email software.
- Interoperable business documents: connect supported business actions to Peppol and other existing electronic document channels.
- Business identity credentials: recognize compatible organization and representation evidence from European Business Wallet frameworks.
These additional workflows are being developed as future product specifications; not all are listed as public release commitments.
For background, read Business Identity and Evidence and Trust.