Munich / Cluj-Napoca. The BMW Group is increasing its
world community of IT and software program hubs with the opening of a brand new
location in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In cooperation with NTT DATA, BMW
TechWorks Romania will change into the hub for European IT and software program
tasks and can speed up the corporate’s digital transformation.
“With BMW TechWorks Romania, we’re strengthening our footprint
within the EU and contributing considerably to the digital expertise of
our clients” explains Alexander Buresch, CIO and Senior Vice
President of BMW Group IT and emphasizes: “Our world IT hubs
safe our Enterprise IT and software program experience in the long run and
speed up the implementation of our IT technique based mostly on newest
applied sciences reminiscent of cloud improvements and AI.”
Partnership with NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a long-standing companion of the BMW Group and brings its
intensive expertise in agile software program improvement and its excellent
community within the Romanian IT panorama to the three way partnership.
“Our collaboration with the BMW Group is a testomony to our mutual
respect and shared imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the automotive business.
By combining our strengths, we’re poised to ship progressive and
transformative options that may profit our clients
worldwide”, says Chieri Kimura, EVP of NTT DATA, Inc., CEO EMEAL.
“BMW TechWorks Romania is pushed by two sturdy companions, with
the target of changing into a reference for the digital transformation
of the BMW Group’s industrial ecosystem. It’s a mission of honour
which NTT DATA obtained within the wake of a 30 plus years previous valued
partnership between our two corporations”, underlines Maria Metz, CEO of
NTT DATA Romania.
Superb situations for dynamic progress
The three way partnership will greater than double its workforce to 250
builders by the top of the 12 months. In the long run, the purpose is to
attain a four-digit variety of staff in an effort to persistently broaden
the BMW Group’s world software program experience. The dynamic progress path is
additionally mirrored in formidable enterprise objectives: the purpose is to realize
double-digit million turnover by the top of the 12 months.
Ralf Waltram, Vice President and Head of International DevOps Hubs explains:
“BMW TechWorks Romania joins a world community of IT hubs that already
consists of places in Germany, South Africa, the USA, Portugal and
China” and provides: “Cluj-Napoca, identified for its innovation-friendly
ecosystem, entrepreneurship, start-ups and excessive density of IT expertise,
provides excellent situations for the three way partnership”.
Give attention to IT tasks within the EU
The brand new IT hub develops central constructing blocks for IT tasks with
a give attention to Europe:
- Related Procurement: Extremely advanced provide chains and management
methods require networked IT methods - Digital Shopfloor: Fashionable manufacturing IT because the spine of the BMW iFactory
- Direct Gross sales Mannequin: Improvement of central IT elements for the
implementation of the BMW and MINI direct gross sales mannequin in Europe
Innovation hub Cluj-Napoca
Marian Haus, COO BMW TechWorks Romania: “We need to entice
certified IT expertise for our speedy progress within the coming years and are
subsequently notably happy concerning the glorious technical training
on the universities in Cluj-Napoca and town’s vigorous tech scene.”
Emil Petru, CEO BMW Techworks Romania provides: “”We’re proud to be
a part of the BMW Group as of in the present day and to play a decisive position in
shaping the digital transformation of the corporate right here in Romania.”
In complete, greater than 9,400 staff worldwide already work in IT and
software program improvement for the BMW Group and its joint ventures.
Job opportunitites at BMW TechWorks Romania may be discovered right here: https://www.bmwtechworks.ro/careers
