Automotive IT News and Facts
After a decade working for the Volkswagen Group in various positions, Martin Hofmann became CIO of Europe’s largest carmaker a year ago. He took on the position at a time when VW is trying to become not just the world’s biggest automotive group, but also, as CEO Martin Winterkorn said recently, “the world’s best automaker.” [...]
John Ginder, who runs the big-data operations of Ford Motor, sees his role as allowing the carmaker‘s operating units to solve their problems with the help of IT. “We look for opportunities where organizations don’t have the bandwidth to tackle problems and need some heavy lifting or some novel IT techniques,” Ginder said in an [...]
Mattias Ulbrich has been CIO at Audi AG in Ingolstadt since February 2012. In an interview with automotiveIT, he talks about his current duties as a process integrator, the new era of collaboration with the company‘s other divisions, and his relationship with Volkswagen Group IT. automotiveIT: Audi IT is the most attractive employer of computer scientists [...]
Data security tops the agenda of many CIOs. Lax handling of information security can threaten companies’ technological edge – and drivers’ safety. In a discussion with automotiveIT, professional hacker and data security consultant Felix “FX” Lindner and Sandro Gaycken, a security researcher at the Free University in Berlin, talk about risks to the auto industry. [...]
Sanjay Rishi is CIO and group vice president, information technology, at Automotive Experience, the biggest division of US-based Johnson Controls. Rishi runs a global IT operation with between 400 and 500 people worldwide, not including a “partner ecosystem” of companies that provide a broad range of IT services to JCI. The automotive division employs 80,000 [...]
Rafael Engelhardt has reduced IT expenditures at US-based automotive supplier TRW by imposing a range of restrictions on, among other things, employees’ use of smartphones. He also took action to curb expenses in other areas. That has helped bring down TRW’s IT costs to one of the most competitive levels in the supplier industry. In [...]
DETROIT – Whether General Motors or Toyota or, before too long, Volkswagen is the world’s biggest automaker is a subject of debate. What’s not in dispute is that GM, with 176 plants in 31 countries, 20 engineering centers and more than 200,000 employees worldwide, is a complex, multifaceted global corporation that commands a top position [...]
BMW Financial Services depends for all its IT needs on the group’s internal service division. IT at BMW is run by Karl-Erich Probst, CIO, while financial services at the German premium carmaker is headed by Erich Ebner von Eschenbach. Probst and Ebner von Eschenbach explain in an interview with automotiveIT what their common goals are [...]
Sven Lorenz, Porsche’s CIO is a busy man. Not only does he have to manage integration with new majority owner Volkswagen, he also has to deal with the increasing role of social media, continued tight budgets andthe need to get dealers to use one dealer management systems. Lorenz spoke recently with automotiveIT about these and [...]
Europe’s biggest software maker, SAP, would like to cooperate more closely with HP. “HP has been a good partner to us for many years and we are open to expanding that cooperation,” said Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP. In an interview with Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Snabe said cooperation with the US-based technology group makes [...]
