The Inrupt team around the web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has published an Enterprise Solid Server. This ESS is the existing Solid platform, but it is tailored to corporate use. The aim of the platform is to give users back control of their data and for this purpose chooses a technical and not a regulatory approach PODs: Each Personal Online Data Store stores the user information and can be used to grant read and write rights for the desired services and applications. Data does not flow into separate silos in which the user would lose track of them.

Functions especially for companies At the start of the project in the year 2018, server software was already available, but the ESS adds further security functions such as OIDC / OAuth authentication and E2E TLS encryption added. It also offers monitoring and data backup tools and offers 24 / 7 support. Interested companies can find more information on inrupt.com.

The ESS was created together with the first professional users, including the BBC and Bank NatWest, the National Health System of Great Britain (NHS) and the Government of Flanders. While Inrupt announced these pilot projects in the second half of the year, the team has been working on the corporate use of their platform for two years.

Although companies provide details on the ESS If you have to make an abrupt request, you can try out the server software and the PODs yourself: the former is available as open source software on GitHub, and a personal online data store can also be provided on your own system or obtained free of charge from a provider. (fo)