Case Study: DATEV achieves fully digital accounting and secure audit trails with SAP

DATEV Launching a fully-digital accounting system

DATEV, a leading software provider for accounting, tax, HR, and business services in Germany, faced inefficiencies caused by paper-based document handling, manual verification, and hard-to-maintain master data across financial and tax processes. Working with SAP, the company set out to replace costly, time-consuming, and error-prone workflows with a more secure digital approach using Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI).

SAP and DATEV implemented a fully digital document and identity system that verifies business partners through decentralized credentials and automatically notarizes transactions for audit purposes. The solution streamlines document exchange, improves compliance, and creates a secure audit trail, helping reduce overhead and speed up order and tax-related processes while supporting more scalable, fully digital accounting.

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