Case Study: Continental achieves rapid app delivery and citizen-led digitization with Mendix

Automotive Manufacturer Creates a Maker Culture to Drive Digitization With Both Citizen and Pro Developers

Continental, a global automotive technology company, faced hundreds of legacy internal applications reaching end‑of‑life and a Finance IT team that needed to modernize processes, reduce latency, and enable business teams to build their own solutions. One critical challenge was the Electronic Capital Request (eCR) system, whose old stack caused long delays for global users and slow budget-request processing.

The team adopted the Mendix low‑code platform and Agile “garage” maker culture to co‑develop apps with business users and IT. In 12 weeks they rebuilt a 300‑screen eCR for 10,000 users (instead of a projected year), cutting budget-request times from hours to minutes, improving performance and stability, and empowering citizen developers—while establishing governance and reusable patterns to scale the maker movement across the company.

Continental

Sven Fleischer

Global Team Lead