Mercedes-Benz is working with Pivotal to design and implement its first-ever connected car app, which is meant to give drivers deeper insight about their driving experience.
The app promises access to a variety of information about the status of the vehicle’s vitals, remote control of things like auxiliary heating, the ability to open and close the door lock from afar, a convenient navigation tool via iPhone and Apple Watch, and other new features.
Mercedes-Benz looked to the agile software development services of Pivotal Labs and Pivotal’s cloud native platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry supercharged with the developer framework Spring Boot.
The car maker can now implement the extremely rapid deployment of highly scalable and flexible products and solutions in response to demanding customer requirements.
Within the project, Pivotal Labs brings the culture and successful methodology of software development from Silicon Valley to Stuttgart and helps Mercedes-Benz adapt and further develop this know-how.
“With Pivotal we have minimized our innovation cycles and can now respond to changing market demands faster than ever before, both of which allowed us to develop a profound software culture in our transformational journey into a digital company,” said Christoph Hartung, head of connected cars at Mercedes-Benz.
“Our collaboration with Pivotal will define a new digital driving culture with state-of-the-art information technologies, online communication systems and automotive services,” said Hartung.