Case Study: Mercedes‑Benz achieves faster CI builds and optimized storage for polyglot development with JFrog Artifactory

Why Mercedes Benz Research and Development (MBRDNA) chose JFrog Artifactory as its Universal Artifact Repository Manager

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America (MBRDNA) — a Sunnyvale team of 300+ engineers building next-generation UIs for connected and autonomous vehicles — faced a polyglot toolchain challenge: Conan, Maven, Docker and mixed CI (Jenkins, Bamboo) led to complex dependency management, Gigabyte-sized downloads, 5–6 hour CI builds, and storage limits (thousands of artifacts totaling ~1 TB/week with growth to ~2 TB/week expected), forcing teams to cap retained builds at ~50–60.

MBRDNA adopted JFrog Artifactory as a universal repository manager; its multi-format support, checksum storage and remote-cache repositories centralized dependencies and slashed download times from hours to minutes. The result: dramatically faster CI, improved collaboration and onboarding, fine-grained access control, and scalable storage—allowing 500–600 daily builds per month—and the team benefited from an intuitive UI, simple YAML configuration and responsive JFrog support.

Mercedes-Benz

Siva Mandadi

DevOps - Autonomous Driving