Unicorn’s Certigy Registry product was successfully delivered to the Croatian company HROTE to cover the complete agenda of the issuing body organisation for the Guarantees of Origin (EECS GO) – from registering production devices, gathering metered data, and issuing certificates and transferring them within the country and internationally via AIB Hub, all the way to certificate cancelling. The entire delivery was completed in less than two months, including migrating the data from the old solution.
The Starting Point: A Functional but Aging System
Before Certigy Registry was delivered to HROTE, they were using an old solution tendered in 2015 that was functional but considered inflexible and difficult to use from the employees’ perspective.
The screens only provided fixed, pre-configured views on the data without any flexibility for the user, and complex filters had to be set every time the user entered a screen. This meant that every operation performed in the system, especially tasks like regulatory reporting, was highly time-consuming or even impossible without getting the supplier involved.
The applied technologies also gave the solution an outdated appearance with zero option to provide any modern integration capabilities.
Before Certigy Registry was delivered to HROTE, they were using an old solution tendered in 2015 that was functional but considered inflexible and difficult to use from the employees’ perspective. The screens only provided fixed, pre-configured views on the data without any flexibility for the user, and complex filters had to be set every time the user entered a screen. This meant that every operation performed in the system, especially tasks like regulatory reporting, was highly time-consuming or even impossible without getting the supplier involved. The applied technologies also gave the solution an outdated appearance with zero option to provide any modern integration capabilities.
A Modern Approach to Certificate Lifecycle Management
Certigy Registry is a certificate management system for issuing and tracking the Guarantees of Origin for commodities. It’s a flexible solution supporting multiple certificate schemes, covering the whole certificate lifecycle, starting with issuing, transfers, exports, and imports, all the way up to cancellations. It’s built using the Unicorn Application Framework – a platform for developing cloud-ready mobile-first applications and information systems with a rich user interface, based primarily on modern web technologies. It utilises the micro-service architecture, meaning the overall solution has been divided into several sub-applications: User Interface (GUI), Certificates, Transparency, Integrations and APIs, Transactions, Metered Data, Finance, and Master Data.
Certigy Registry is provided as a solution-as-a-service (SaaS), deployed and operated in the Unicorn cloud. See more at Certigy.
Project Results: A Scalable and User-Friendly Certificate Platform
The project’s outcome was the delivery of a modern GO certificate registry in less than two months, including data migration from the old solution, a custom appearance (company colours and logos), and AIB Hub integration for international certificate transfers. The new solution provides HROTE with an up-to-date and responsive GUI, featuring full flexibility for end users. They can freely and easily customise the screens by adding or removing the columns they want to see, changing the order of the columns, and sorting and filtering to create fully custom views and reports. Thanks to the micro-service architecture, the particular functionalities can be scaled as needed without influencing one another. The REST API offered by the system is easy to use and allows the customers to simply integrate the Certigy Registry functions into the surrounding IT environment to automate previously manual tasks, such as processing the results of a certificate auction.
