Case Study: Major Car Manufacturing Company achieves secure, simplified confidential data exchange with Axway Syncplicity

How Syncplicity simplifies and protects movement of confidential information to consultants, customers, and suppliers

A major European automotive manufacturer with 290 sites and 109,000 employees, and €17 billion in 2017 sales, needed to securely exchange highly confidential R&D, CAD and design data with global design consultants, customers and suppliers. The company faced fragmented data-exchange tools and license management issues while needing to meet strict security, speed and availability requirements set by two of its largest customers (together representing about a quarter of its turnover).

The company implemented Syncplicity as a fast, centrally managed replacement, validated by its security team and rolled out in a few months. The solution enabled secure, auditable transfers (about 100 GB exchanged with major customers), simplified license administration with lower cost per user, rapid user adoption, and alignment with the security requirements of its key automotive customers.