BMW Group, Germany
The high productivity and automatization in the automotive industry is largely due to the support of complex business processes by innovative information technologies. Sophisticated engineering, manufacturing, and retail processes are implemented within large-scale applications based on a variety of heterogeneous platforms. The first part of the presentation will show how the BMW Group Competence Center of IT Architectures defines, classifies, and propagates IT architectures for the world-wide BMW Group IT organization. Based on the notion of master architectures and master solutions, we will show how generic solutions, such as for enterprise application integration, portals, application servers, business intelligence, CRM, etc. are developed and implemented in large-scale projects. In the second part, one specific, but rather important architectural topic will be addressed: inter-enterprise integration between BMW Group and its partners. The talk will explain how partner integration scenarios are classified and how aspects of B2B integration, such as data transformation, process management, security, and standardization, must be implemented to meet business requirements.