BMW Group is the world’s leading provider of premium products and services for individual mobility.
The company has activities in more than 150 countries with 76 B€ revenues in 2013.
The Snapshot
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BMW Group, a world-leading provider of premium mobility services, decided to establish its own private cloud environment.
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The primary challenge was to optimise costs and standardise IT services by creating a rapid, elastic, and automated service provisioning system.
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The solution involved implementing an orchestration engine for 100% automated provisioning and de-provisioning, integrated with a cloud lifecycle management solution for BMW’s specific IT environment.
Main Challenges
BMW decided to build its own Private Cloud in order to:
- Optimise its costs
- Standardise its IT services, including a self-service portal
- Be rapid, elastic and automated in the provisioning and delivery of services
What Did We Solve?
Devoteam implemented and delivered an Orchestration Engine for 100% automated provisioning & de-provisioning of the Private Cloud IT Services.
We also implemented a significant part of the Cloud Lifecycle Management solution for BMW’s Private Cloud and advised the company in the design of Private Cloud architecture & processes, operations management and the integration into BMW ITSM environments.
Key Benefits for the Customer
Reduced the delivery time for complex IT services from weeks to hours.
Generated expected cost reductions of up to 35% for service delivery.
Ensured error-free service delivery with 100% automated provisioning.
- Reduced delivery time from weeks to hours (max. 4 hours for complex services)
- Expected 10% – 35% cost reduction for service delivery
- Optimised utilisation of existing infrastructure
- Zero downtime of the service portal & service delivery
- Error-free service delivery because of 100% automated service provisioning
- Elasticity & automated cost back charging (enabling on-demand services)