Automotive configurator with banking & finance integration
Automotive configurator with banking & finance integration _
For one of our clients, we worked on an automotive configurator with banking and finance integration. The manufacturer and its associated bank need a common platform that can be deployed for various purposes without producing multiple versions. It is essential to provide comprehensive functionalities by transforming project requirements into features, such as:
- Vehicle configurator
- Financing options
- Storage of financing offers
- Price and installment calculations
- Marketing model tree
- Web analytics
Client _
- Major car manufacturer
- >100000 employees
- Germany
Business case _
- Simplify the vehicle’s presentation and configuration
- Present live data: packages, accessories, price, financing options
- Launch the marketing websites across multiple countries with individual market specifics
Industry _
- Automotive
- Banking & Finance
- Marketing
Services _
- Software outsourcing
- Team augmentation
Project type _
- Web
- Cloud
Technology _
- JEE
- Oracle DB
- Glassfish
- REST
- SOAP
- HTML
- CSS
- SCSS
- Maven
- Gulp
- React
- Angular
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Selenium
Challenges _
Working on the automotive configurator was a complex project. As a global solution to be implemented and tweaked across multiple markets, our platform has to face major challenges, such as:
- High level of availability, scalability, and security
- Extreme load reaching thousands of requests per second, millions of requests per day
- Multi-market, support for different countries and regions
- Responsiveness
- Display mandatory legal information alongside a financial installment
- Continuous integration
- Change management
Solutions _
We met the high expectations of both our client and their final user, with a series of cross-technology solutions:
- Clustering, load balancing, CDN, and auto-discovery of microservices
- Market-specific logic and content, alongside a standalone configuration application
- Updates can be applied live without the need for application restart
- Nightly ETL jobs for mass calculation of prices and installments in advance
- Web widgets, ready to be integrated into a host application
- Microservice architecture, each service deployed automated on multiple stages
- Quarterly planning, development, and release of new functionalities
Interested to know more about our expertise in automotive solutions?
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