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title: "Business Edition"
description: "The complete EPCIS 2.0 platform for production use in the enterprise."
canonical_url: "https://benelog.com/openepcis/business-edition"
last_updated: "2026-09-16T09:19:14.209Z"
---

## Make your supply chain data usable across company boundaries

Companies generate data continuously along the supply chain. Making it traceable and shareable beyond their own boundaries is the real problem. The Business Edition solves it. As our commercial product it is production-ready for daily use. We keep it current with the standard and take care of maintenance.

No trial, no functional limits, the full implementation of the GS1 EPCIS 2.0 standard. You run the platform yourself, or benelog takes over operation.

## Who the Business Edition is for

The Business Edition is meant for companies that want to run OpenEPCIS permanently in operation. Typically that means brand manufacturers who have to make their supply chain provable, companies under regulatory requirements, and operators who provide OpenEPCIS infrastructure for several tenants. What they have in common is simple. They need a platform they can depend on, and they would rather not build and run it themselves. Operators can provide the Business Edition as a white label solution under their own brand. The interface and the appearance carry their branding, the platform behind it is OpenEPCIS.

## What you get

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<icon-card description="Built for continuous operation, maintained by us and developed further as the standard evolves. A platform that holds up once it carries real traffic." icon="mdi:check-decagram" title="Production-Ready">



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<icon-card description="One installation serves many customers, cleanly separated from each other. Anyone running OpenEPCIS for third parties needs exactly this." icon="mdi:office-building" title="Multi-Tenant">



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<icon-card description="benelog builds the platform and answers for running it. One contact for architecture, for updates and for day to day operation." icon="mdi:lifebuoy" title="Operation And Support From One Hand">



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## What makes the difference in operation

A supply chain data layer has to do more than work in a test. It has to hold up when many customers work on it at the same time, when data is needed without delay, when proofs have to stand up across company boundaries, and when the connection to GS1 has to be genuinely dependable. Those four points decide whether a platform is fit for production. They are the reason the Business Edition is proven in real operation.

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<icon-card description="One installation, many customers. The separation sits in the data layer itself, rather than only in the application on top of it." icon="mdi:database-outline" title="Tenant Separation In The Data Layer">



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<icon-card description="Events go out the moment they arrive. There is no polling interval to tune and no window to miss." icon="mdi:flash-outline" title="Live Instead Of Polling">



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<icon-card description="Proofs that work with the digital wallets now taking shape across the EU, without tying you to one of them." icon="mdi:certificate-outline" title="Verifiable Credentials, Wallet-Independent">



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<icon-card description="A real, two-way connection to the GS1 Germany services. An active node in the GS1 network." icon="mdi:shield-check-outline" title="Verified By GS1">



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## Flexible deployment

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<icon-card description="In your own cloud or on-premises. Full control over data, infrastructure and configuration. The route most companies with an existing platform team take." icon="mdi:server" title="Self-Hosted">



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<icon-card description="A fully operated OpenEPCIS instance in a certified German data centre. No infrastructure effort on your side, and no cluster for your team to learn." icon="mdi:cloud-outline" title="Managed by benelog">



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### What applies to both operating models

The platform stays current with the GS1 standards. Whatever changes in EPCIS, in the GS1 Conformant Resolver or in the other building blocks, we implement it and make it available, as a rule by the time the standard in question is published. EPCIS 2.1 will be available too, as soon as the standard is out. That is possible because benelog helps develop the EPCIS standard as co-chair of the GS1 working group.

On top of that comes comprehensive support with fixed response times and a named contact.

Would you rather start smaller? The [Community Edition](/openepcis/community-edition) provides the open building blocks under Apache 2.0, and the [Research Edition](/openepcis/research-edition) provides the complete platform free of licence fees for non-commercial use.

## All the technical detail

The full feature matrix, the architecture and every technical detail live on the platform site:

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Thinking about running OpenEPCIS in production and want to talk the plan through? [Book a meeting](mailto:info@benelog.com?subject=OpenEPCIS%20Business%20Edition) and we will get back to you shortly.

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## FAQ

<faq-accordion :items="[{"question":"How is this different from the open components?","answer":"The open components are individual tools under Apache 2.0: a converter, a validator, a hash generator, etc. The Business Edition is the complete platform: the EPCIS repository with tenant separation, real-time delivery, the GS1 Conformant Digital Link Resolver, and many other associated features."},{"question":"Do we have to host it ourselves?","answer":"No. Both routes are supported. Self-hosted if you need the data and the infrastructure completely under your own control, or managed by benelog if you would rather not run it at all."},{"question":"Can it serve several of our customers from one installation?","answer":"Yes, and that is a common reason companies choose it. Tenants are separated in the data layer, so one installation can serve many customers without their data mixing."},{"question":"What happens when the standard changes?","answer":"benelog co-chairs the GSMP Visibility group that maintains the EPCIS standard. Changes are tracked as they are drafted, and the platform is updated as part of the product rather than as a project you have to fund."},{"question":"Can we start smaller?","answer":"Yes. Many teams begin with the open components or a pilot on the Research Edition, then move to the Business Edition. It is the same implementation underneath, so nothing has to be rebuilt."}]">



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