Platform as a service featuring a computer software platform for automating the review, assessment, and management of professional credentials against established credentialing standards; providing tools for evaluating whether credentials satisfy credentialing requirements; facilitating standardized credential review workflows developed with input from military service branches; including the exchange of information and supporting documentation, workflow communications and notifications, and the tracking of deadlines and milestones; enabling the collection, analysis, tracking, and documentation of credential review results; recommendations, and decisions; providing online tools for collaboration, reporting, and decision support in credential evaluation processes; integrating credential data from third-party systems through application programming interfaces (APIs); and supporting workforce credentialing, standards compliance, and credential management initiatives, wherein final credential inclusion and approval decisions are made by designated review and governance bodies.