Cloud-Agnostic Connected Car Implementation for Leading Japanese Automobile Manufacturer

Client

The client is one of the world’s leading automobile, commercial vehicle, and power equipment manufacturers based in Japan.

Challenges

• The client’s connected car line of products featured multiple user-facing web and mobile applications supported by a complex system of services including legacy, mainframe, integration bus, messaging, security and ERPs. There was a need of end-to-end visibility across tools and services for effective collaboration. 
• The delivery of services to the end users involved manual activities in building packages, testing and deploying with time-bound co-ordination between multiple teams leading to slow time-to-market. 
• Consumer-facing mobile applications faced low user ratings, which resulted in low customer satisfaction index.

LTM Solution

LTM implemented cloud-agnostic connected car solution via cross platform DevOps, containerization, and API management on AWS hybrid cloud for microservices and mobile apps. The details of solution are -

• We developed a future-proof, cloud-ready architecture designed to scale limitlessly. 
• Microservices deployed as Docker swarm services (replicated containers) with autoscaling, monitoring, and log aggregation. 
• Built app lifecycle automation designing DevOps platform. 
• Single DevOps platform solution for microservices (Java & .NET) and mobile apps (Android & iOS) on AWS hybrid cloud led to technology risk reduction and landscape transformation. 
• Cloud-agnostic and container management solution implemented to avoid vendor lock-in. 
• Infrastructure automation was done using Docker.

Technology Used: Docker, AWS Cloud – AWS EC2, Java, .NET, Mobile apps – Android, iOS.

Business Benefits

Consistent user experience using a tool/could-agnostic solution.

• Reduced lead time-to-market by 35% due to self-service and rapid DevOps enablement using LTM’s Genius platform.
• End-to-end traceability across the entire CI/CD pipeline. 
• ~40% faster product development, leading to improved customer satisfaction and user ratings.