Introduction

A crucial part of a thriving corporation is its employees. Businesses can differentiate themselves with both their potential hires and current employees through how they manage their interactions with them.

While there are countless ways for a corporation to make a strong, positive impression on its existing and prospective resource pool, a surprising — and cost-saving — method to construct the relationship is by leveraging tools that transform how a corporation exchanges information internally and externally

Distributed ledger technology (DLT), like ChainTrail, can transform a document process flow and significantly reduce the time taken to process information. By leveraging…

According to the report “Global Migration Indicators of 2018” published by Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), 4.8 million international students are studying worldwide. There are over seven hundred thousand Indian students pursuing education abroad as of July 2018 and there are an equal number, if not more, of students in the country who are hoping to do the same. More and more students are choosing to go out of their home countries for education, but they face several obstacles or have to undergo cumbersome processes during the application process, a lot of which can be cleared by implementing ChainTrail’s…

The move from physical to digital academic records hasn’t necessarily resulted in academic institutions being the sole keepers of student information, offering access only after a slow and complicated application process. On the other hand, recording and verifying student credentials are expensive and time-consuming for both businesses and academia. What imparts the problem an entirely new dimension is the proliferation of online courses offered by new-age education providers. Naturally, rising educational claims are hard to manage. Blockchain offers an innovative solution with a unique infrastructure that enables various stakeholders, update, verify and validate data.

Leading Universities like MIT, Stanford, Princeton…

For a long time, a centralized system with a governing third party was seen as the only possible way to transact safely and achieve data transparency. Today, Blockchain’s decentralized framework makes this possible through an open platform that delivers reliability, security, transparency, and neutrality. Data provenance means users can track its source to an entity or individual along with time and date that data was created. Once data provenance is established, the only other dimension left is to ensure reliability is that data has undergone no change since it was created. …

With a spate of data breaches in recent times data privacy has been a hot topic. The recent event involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook exposed the data of about 3 million users. Such data breaches are then used to lend credibility to fake information, news or data by using seemingly real identity attributes. As a result, there is a global push both through regulation and operations to enhance controls on data privacy, security and most importantly, verifiability.

The Web of Data Storage

Storing and sharing data on the internet is a complex task. The structure of the internet, users’ keenness…

Touted as one of the biggest disruptions in tech today, Blockchain’s popularity has a lot to do with its effectiveness as a transparent tool for maintaining a record of transactions. Corporations ranging from IBM, Microsoft and Intel are leveraging Blockchain to develop a range of applications as for them it's just another tool to get business done. Some other corporations rolling out or piloting Blockchain solutions include Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, Walmart and Visa. Most interestingly, it is a vibrant start-up ecosystem that is creating innovative solutions for solving problems around Trust, Data Provenance and Verifiability. For the uninitiated, what makes…