Case Study: Volkswagen Financial Services achieves faster Azure PaaS adoption and 25% planning time savings with CAST Highlight

Volkswagen Financial Services Adopts Azure PaaS Faster with Software Intelligence Insights from CAST Highlight

Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS), a division of Volkswagen AG with 16,000 employees across 48 locations, set out to modernize 120 critical business applications and move them to Microsoft Azure PaaS within a two‑year window. With 400 developers across eight countries, the team faced a major challenge: objectively assessing each application’s cloud readiness, technical debt and remediation effort at scale rather than relying on subjective input from application owners.

VWFS adopted CAST Highlight to automatically analyze source code, identify cloud migration Blockers, estimate remediation effort, and recommend appropriate Azure services while using a Portfolio Advisor to segment apps (rehost, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, retire). The automated, data‑driven approach shortened planning by about 25% (3–6 months), helped avoid costly migration hurdles, and enabled completion of the migration in 1.5 years with confident, actionable modernization roadmaps.

Volkswagen Financial Services

Jens Ewelt

Head of Azure Services