Case Study: ZF Friedrichshafen achieves greater transparency and predictability with Bizzdesign HOPEX

ZF Friedrichshafen creates transparency across 1,500 software products with Bizzdesign

ZF Friedrichshafen AG, a global automotive technology group, faced challenges in managing its vast portfolio of over 1,500 applications and technologies. The company needed greater transparency to eliminate software redundancy, improve IT standardization, support business processes, and better plan software investments. To address this, ZF turned to the vendor Bizzdesign and its Hopex platform.

Bizzdesign implemented its Hopex IT Architecture and Hopex IT Portfolio Management solutions, which provided a comprehensive inventory and navigable models of the IT landscape. This gave ZF superior transparency and data quality, enabling better, role-based decision-making for various managers. The results included a higher level of IT standardization, greater visibility into how applications support business processes, and the ability to quickly provide reports on application usage, which helped guide software investments and ensure compliance.

ZF Friedrichshafen AG