Trusted Data Sharing as Infrastructure
Data has become the primary raw material of digital business. Most organizations have learned how to collect, store, and analyze data internally. What they have not solved—at least not sustainably—is how to share data across organizational boundaries without losing control, sovereignty, or legal clarity.
This gap is no longer theoretical. The EU Data Act, the Digital Product Passport, and sector-specific regulations increasingly assume that organizations can exchange data in a controlled, auditable way. Meanwhile, AI-driven value creation and ecosystem business models depend on cross-company data access. The demand is structural. The infrastructure to meet it has been missing.
Dataspaces address this problem at the architectural level. Dataspace-as-a-Service (DSaaS) turns that architecture into something organizations can actually adopt—and something cloud providers can productize. This guide explains why trusted data sharing is becoming unavoidable, how the Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) stack solves the problem, and where DSaaS creates a concrete strategic opportunity.