New Dr.Sum release complies with the Electronic Books Preservation Act

WingArc1st will begin offering a new release of its data analysis platform Dr.Sum that is specialized for meeting the data storage and retrieval requirements of the Electronic Books Preservation Act in Japan on 5 October 2022. The minimum price is 80,000 yen per month (subscription license, tax not included).

Background
To meet the requirements of the Electronic Books Preservation Act, electronic data related to national tax documents and electronic transactions, including EDI (electronic commerce between companies), must be stored for 7 to 10 years. Electronic data storage will be mandatory from January 2024. When multiple systems exist within a company or group of companies, in addition to the complexity of management and operation issues, there are concerns that existing core systems will increase operating costs and degrade performance. There is a growing need for dedicated data storage systems that address these issues. The discontinuation of ISDN lines in 2024 will make it impossible to use conventional EDI systems for handling electronic transaction data, and there has been active consideration of subsequent systems, including data storage methods. Until the end of 2023, electronic data related to electronic transactions is allowed to be output on paper for storage, but after January 2024 it will be mandatory for all companies to store such data electronically. To address the market's urgent need to support digitization, WingArc has released a new version of Dr.Sum that is compliant with the Electronic Books Preservation Act.

Dr.Sum compliant with the Electronic Books Preservation Act
・Supports storage of electronic data for ledgers, documents, and electronic transactions.
・Provides a database engine for data storage and a web user interface for data retrieval and viewing.
・The database engine supports up to 100 million records per table.

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Dr.Sum
In the 20 years since its release, Dr.Sum has been adopted by more than 6,900 companies (as of the end of February 2022). A high-speed aggregation database, Dr.Sum is now compliant with the Electronic Books Preservation Act to allow customers to confidently plan for its long-term use in data storage. Dr.Sum has been certified compliant with the legal requirements for electronic form, document and transaction software by the Japan Image and Information Management Association (JIIMA), a third-party organization authorized by the National Tax Agency. WingArc1st provides comprehensive support for addressing the Electronic Books Preservation Act, including the provision of the document platform invoiceAgent, a service that supports compliance via electronic document information management.
https://www.wingarc.com/product/dr_sum/ (Japanese)