Volkswagen Financial Services AG and fme conclude cloud master agreement

Brunswick - September 10, 2024 : The Brunswick-based IT consulting company fme has closed a three-year master agreement for cloud services at Volkswagen Financial Services AG. Since May 2018, fme has thus been a strategic service partner and supports the automotive financial services provider in setting up and expanding its cloud platform and in replatforming existing applications based on Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Mirantis OpenStack.

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The master agreement includes the conceptual design and implementation of cloud services as well as the cloud platform. fme will design and implement interfaces for the connection to cloud services and traditional systems as well as advise on projects for the implementation or migration of applications to the cloud platform. The development of CI/CD pipelines for the automation of deployment and testing as well as the integration into existing monitoring and logging solutions are also part of the scope of the master agreement.

“We are glad to have found such a competent cloud services partner in fme,” says Mirco Schiefer, Head of Archiving & Backend Systems at Volkswagen Financial Services AG. “One of our first joint projects will be to move an important system into the cloud. Currently, this is operated locally by the national subsidiaries. “Centralized administration in the cloud simplifies internal processes and reduces operations costs,” explains M. Schiefer.

“The conclusion of the master agreement with Volkswagen Financial Services AG is an important milestone for us and continues the cloud success story of fme”, announces Daniel Pelke, Executive Board Member of fme AG, pleasantly. “Another exciting project is the replatforming of the internal website together with our client. This will allow the shutdown of several dedicated servers and the intranet can be implemented as a long-term solution in the private cloud,” D. Pelke continues. The new cloud solution includes a modern database and automatic updates for operating system, virus scanner, etc., and helps to simplify the operation.

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Digitalization enables new ways of dealing with existing businesses and creates totally new business models. We believe in the opportunities of digital transformation and love to help our clients worldwide maintain and create competitive businesses with business consulting and technology services. Our devoted consultants optimize or challenge our clients’ business models through existing and new technologies and advise them on the necessary cultural change in their company. Cloud, Business Intelligence, Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management technologies in combination with custom software development and the ability to operate our clients’ systems 24×7 help us to add value to our clients’ transformation process.

The industry focus lies on solutions for life sciences, industrial manufacturing and financial services. To this effect, we provide vendor independent consulting services. Our teams in Germany, the United States and Romania are experienced in managing global projects and also grant access to our cost-effective near-shore resources where advisable.

For 25 years, renowned corporations like Boehringer Ingelheim, BMW, CSL Behring, Debeka, EagleBurgmann, Merck, Sanofi-Aventis, Volkswagen and Volkswagen Financial Services have relied on our experience and competence. We are a privately held company and have enjoyed uninterrupted and profitable growth over the years resulting in a comfortable shareholder equity rate.