The Business Partner Agent allows to manage and exchange master data between organizations. Exchange of master data should not happen via telephone, excel, e-mail or various supplier portals. Organizations should be able to publish documents like addresses, locations, contacts, bank accounts and certifications publicly, or exchange them privately with their business partners in a machine-readable and tamper-proof format. Furthemore, verified documents, issued by trusted institutions, are able streamline the process of onboarding new business partners.
The Business Partner Agent is built on top of the Hyperledger Self-Sovereign Identity Stack, in particular Hyperledger Indy and Hyperledger Cloud Agent Python.
- Attach a public organizational profile to your public DID (either did:indy/sov or did:web)
- Add business partners by their public DID and view their public profile.
- Add documents based on Indy schemas and request verifications from business partners
- Share and request verified documents with/from your business partners
A first alpha version of Business Partner Agent is available, see Helm Chart and Docker images It is not ready for production use. Releases are in general considered "alpha", which means API may change at any time and we do not have explicit / planned system tests (See also Publishing).
The Business Partner Agent supports two modes
- Web mode: Serves a did:web identity and allows to publish a public organizational profile.
- Indy mode: Utilizes an identity on an Hyperledger Indy ledger (default: https://indy-test.bosch-digital.de/)
Both modes are currently coupled with a specific instance of an Indy network in order to read schemas and credential definitions. The agent is started in Indy mode per default and tries to connect with our test network. Please refer to the .env-example file to start the agent in web mode or connect to a different Indy network.
You can run the agent via docker-compose (recommended for e.g. development / debugging) or deploy it into a kubernetes cluster (via helm).
EXPERIMENTAL! Please provide feedback in our related discussion
The easiest way to run two agents, is to work with gitpod. Gitpod launches a pre-configured IDE in the browser and the agents being launched in the background. See debugging docu.
User documentation see docs.
Lear how to contribute in Contributing. You can also start by filing an issue.
Regarding release process, we do not follow a strict process yet, nevertheless we follow the guidelines described in Publishing.
- https://github.com/swcurran Co-Chair of the Aries Working Group
See Credits
Project source code files are made available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (Apache-2.0), located in the LICENSE file. Project documentation files are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0), available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.