July 2, 2026
The European Union (EU) is setting the global standard for trustworthy digital operations. Regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2), Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act all send a clear signal: organizations must know where their data resides, how it is processed, and how resilience and compliance can be proven under scrutiny.
In document-intensive environments, this is no longer a theoretical requirement. Regulators, auditors, and customers increasingly expect objective evidence—not assumptions—that data handling and automation decisions are secure, transparent, and compliant.
To meet efficiency goals, many organizations have adopted modular, component-based document workflows. A common setup combines third-party optical character recognition (OCR) with cloud-based large language models (LLMs), and internal workflows to connect them. While powerful, these fragmented architectures introduce a critical weakness: the loss of end-to-end traceability. When auditors ask how a document was parsed, routed, enriched, and transformed—or which model influenced a decision—there is rarely a single, immutable audit trail.
The result is a growing gap between automation capability and auditability.
True compliance requires more than policies and promises. It demands that security, privacy, traceability, and accountability are embedded directly into the technology stack.
ABBYY’s intelligent document processing approach is designed specifically for regulated environments, combining advanced automation with a secure cloud governance model. This enables organizations to scale document workflows while maintaining full visibility and control over every processing step.
ABBYY’s commitment to trust is reinforced through alignment with the BSI Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (BSI C5)—one of Europe’s most rigorous cloud assurance frameworks.
Unlike certifications focused mainly on documentation, BSI C5 emphasizes operational maturity: how controls function in practice, how incidents are managed, and how transparency is maintained.
ABBYY is currently pursuing a BSI C5 Type 2 attestation, underlining its focus on independently verifiable security, governance, and auditability.
In an era defined by GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act, automation is no longer enough. Can organizations prove what happened, why it happened, and that it happened within a framework of trust? ABBYY is built on that assumption.
