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Capgemini and Audi launch new Joint Venture:
XL2
- New company to focus on
SAP S/4HANA® and Cloud Services
- XL2 to
support the digital transformation of the automotive
industry
Ingolstadt/Paris, May 28, 2020 -
Capgemini and Audi today announced the launch of their joint
venture - XL2. Following regulatory approvals, the company was
founded at the end of April. It will provide
digital technology and consulting services, namely in the
fields of SAP S/4HANA® and cloud services
primarily for Audi and the entire Volkswagen Group. XL2
combines an agile start-up culture reinforced by two global
industry-leaders. The company's goal is to expand its project
business gradually and achieve a powerful
workforce within the next five years.
XL2 was founded by Audi and Capgemini to support
the automotive industry in digital transformation tasks. The joint
venture that focuses on consulting and technology services for
cloud and SAP S/4HANA® includes industry solutions such as SAP
Leonardo®. XL2 is designed to enable end-to-end digital
manufacturing, covering all central processes, including production
planning, logistics, finance, maintenance, quality and materials
management. Projects of the legally independent entity are to be
carried out for Audi. The first focus areas are SAP projects for
production and master data management, as well as development in
the context of cloud-based applications.
XL2 embodies an agile innovative start-up culture backed
by two global brands
Capgemini and Audi have a long-standing
partnership in developing solutions for digital transformation and
co-innovation. The new co-owned company strengthens this
collaboration and leverages their joint capabilities. The formation
of XL2 takes the partnership to a new level and continues the
successful collaboration in developing solutions and co-innovations
for digital transformation. XL2 will benefit from the combined
experience and expertise of the two global leaders. Its
independence and agility, combined with the rigor and breadth of
the large organizations, aims to address the rapidly changing
requirements of digital transformation in the automotive
sector.
Frank Loydl, Chief Information Officer at AUDI
AG: "XL2’s flexible and scalable way of working and its focus on
important key technologies is part of our vision and our needs in
further advancing digital transformation. Our long-term
relationship with Capgemini and its proven capabilities in the
automotive and SAP sectors makes it the right partner.”
The joint venture will have dual leadership: by
Géraldine Aubert, previously Vice President of Packaged Based
Services at Capgemini, and Felix Spitznagel, previously Director
SAP Acceleration Center at Audi. The goal of this agile, innovative
company is to build a powerful workforce within the next five years
in order to service more projects in the future. The company is now
looking to recruit namely SAP consultants, software developers as
well as analytics and data engineers, from graduates to established
experts. XL2's headquarters are located in Heilbronn in Germany, in
close proximity to Audi’s production site in Neckarsulm. The
vicinity of the Audi production site is noteworthy and an
additional enrichment of the ecosystem. The Audi location in
Neckarsulm also offers an ideal testing and application environment
for IT solutions in the field of digital production.
Markus Winkler, Global Head of the Automotive
Sector at Capgemini said: "XL2 is an exciting new brand that stands
out from the market combining an agile start-up culture and the
experience and capabilities of two industry leaders. Its employees
will shape digital transformation in the automotive industry with
key state-of-the-art technologies. For that, we are excited to join
forces with Audi, a technology leader in its own industry.”
For more information on XL2: www.xl2.de
About CapgeminiCapgemini is a
global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology and
engineering services. The Group is at the forefront of innovation
to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the
evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its
strong 50-year+ heritage and deep industry-specific expertise,
Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions
through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini
is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology
comes from and through people. Today, it is a multicultural company
of 270,000 team members in almost 50 countries. With Altran, the
Group reported 2019 combined revenues of €17billion.Visit us at
www.capgemini.com. People matter, results count.
About AudiThe Audi Group, with
its brands Audi, Ducati and Lamborghini, is one of the most
successful manufacturers of automobiles and motorcycles in the
premium segment. It is present in more than 100 markets worldwide
and produces at 16 locations in 11 countries. 100 percent
subsidiaries of AUDI AG include Audi Sport GmbH (Neckarsulm,
Germany), Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. (Sant’Agata Bolognese,
Italy) and Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. (Bologna, Italy).
In 2019, the Audi Group delivered to customers
about 1.845 million automobiles of the Audi brand, 8,205 sports
cars of the Lamborghini brand and 53,183 motorcycles of the Ducati
brand. In the 2019 fiscal year, AUDI AG achieved total revenue of
€ 55.7 billion and an operating profit of € 4.5 billion.
At present, 90,000 people work for the company all over the world,
60,000 of them in Germany. Audi focuses on sustainable products and
technologies for the future of mobility.
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