NAVIGATING TOWARDS CLOUD CLARITY > DAIMLER AG
Are we meeting business needs with agility? Are we efficient in the way we operate? Are we continuously unlocking innovation potential for the business? These are the questions that have led several enterprises to move to the cloud, over the past decade, in search of the answers. In the wake of the global crisis, as our world turned increasingly virtual, the need to accelerate the journey to the cloud, in order to digitize, became even more urgent. Slowing down meant risking the organization's operational resilience or worse, being disrupted by a nimbler attacker who is better prepared for the next normal.
Even as the cloud grows in strategic relevance for companies, capturing the full extent of its promised value remains a struggle for many businesses.
The challenge lies in their ability to evolve their cloud investments from being a technology-funding mechanism that prioritizes features requested by the business in the near-term, to becoming critical enterprise investment that allows the business to add differentiating capabilities quickly and continuously in the future. Without this plan and the operating model to action it, companies will be unable to build their cloud-powered enterprise that efficiently and securely meets escalating business and customer expectations of agility and innovation.
We know that the future of enterprise cloud strategy will be shaped by three key factors - business agility, scaled innovation and security of the ecosystem. That's why we seek to deliver for organizations the cloud's full value potential by driving these three factors through their end-to-end cloud transformation. We enable businesses to redesign the enterprise from the core, and also build new cloud-first capabilities to create seamless experiences in public, private and hybrid cloud, across PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS landscapes. Our thriving cloud community brings enterprises the ability to rapidly launch new solutions and create business models to meet changing market needs.
The community is further amplified by the Infosys partner ecosystem that brings together the hyperscale cloud providers, enterprise app providers, startups and several other technology innovators. We keenly appreciate the need to integrate security by design into this landscape and ensure the business complies with the most stringent global, regional and industry security standards.
The capability to do all this and more comes to us from Infosys CobaltTM - a powerful set of services, solutions, and platforms for enterprises to accelerate their cloud journey. We hope to share glimpses, in this Annual Report, of how this is acting as a force multiplier of cloud-powered enterprise transformation for our clients - navigating them from cloud chaos to clarity.
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The future of mobility is tied to safe and superior vehicles that leverage innovative and green technologies. Progressive auto manufacturers are exploring intelligent connectivity of vehicles, autonomous driving and new mobility concepts that make emission-free driving possible in the long term. This means deepening focus on software engineering. And that in turn makes it necessary to set up agile, open, scalable and smart hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Daimler AG is one of the world's most successful automotive companies. To accelerate their pioneering automotive engineering, they were keen to deepen focus on software engineering.
With software becoming modular and IT infrastructure becoming big, Daimler planned to take three steps at once to transform their IT infrastructure: consolidation, scaling and modernization. They knew they needed to think infrastructure beyond the size of their company. To realize this aspiration, they needed a robust IT operating model, fully scalable, on-demand digital IT infrastructure, and anytime-anywhere workplace. Their priority was to transform their workplace services, service desk, data center, networks and SAP Basis.
The automotive and mobility giant has started to work with Infosys to build a model that ensures robust IT infrastructure for its plants across regions, supports consolidation of its data centers, scales its IT operations, and brings multiple innovations to the fore. Some of the key deliverables from this partnership include:
The Infosys solution for Daimler aims at smoothly navigating the company from its current mode of operation to future mode of operation. This journey started with monetizing Daimler's legacy assets upfront, delivering immediate operational expense savings upfront and underwriting the capital outlay needed to fund advances in infrastructure, technology and cloud transformation without needing additional spending. The strategy, deploying these tactics, will seamlessly move Daimler closer to their future mode of operation with bigger operational expense savings, while helping them nurture an agile and resilient innovation infrastructure at scale.
Vice President and Country Head Infosys Germany
