Volkswagen (VW) is German automobile company founded in 1937, announced Volkswagen Partnership With Microsoft. Company is well known for its innovative, luxurious and premium cars around the world. In its innovation company is moving further to make smart car with many automotive features.
Volkswagen announced “Volkswagen Partnership With Microsoft” on 28th September, to to develop a “comprehensive industrial automotive cloud” called Volkswagen Automotive Cloud. Every day more and more technology inbuilt cars are being launched. There is big challenge to connect all kind of technology with communication. So Automakers needed a way to manage all data through some cloud connective services.
We all know that future of automobile industry is autonomous vehicles ((AVs), and automobile companies are trying to add one or another feature in their cars models every day, so soon car will be like small home. And each innovator is thinking to make more futuristic.
If we talk about online technology or even mobile apps, recent study report shown that usage of mobile apps is not increase that much. So it is about to reach its saturation point. But AV (autonomous vehicles) can reverse this downfall.
When it comes to a driver-less vehicle, many companies done many test in many cities around the world, and they tried to show the path ahead. But what about making all these technologies to synchronize in a system and then use it or communicate it.
The future of this cloud connectivity is still in air, however this Volkswagen Partnership With Microsoft can make it possible soon. Earlier automobile companies like Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi alliance had a partnership with Google to inbuilt Android operating system into their respective models’ infotainment systems.
In press release by Volkswagen (VW), Dr. Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen AG said “The strategic Volkswagen Partnership With Microsoft will turbocharge our digital transformation,”
In press release Company also expected that from 2020 onward, more than 5 million new Volkswagen-brand vehicles per year will be fully connected and will be part of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the cloud. The profound partnership between the Volkswagen and Microsoft will lay the foundation for combining the global cloud expertise of Microsoft with the experience of Volkswagen as an automaker with a global market presence.
Together, Volkswagen Partnership With Microsoft will develop the technological basis for a comprehensive industrial automotive cloud. In the future, all in-car services for vehicles of the core Volkswagen brand as well as the Group-wide cloud-based platform (also known as One Digital Platform, ODP) will be built on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and services as well as Azure IoT Edge. This will dramatically streamline the technical landscape.