BMW Group and Tata Technologies aim to collaborate on developing automotive software and business IT solutions.

Munich, Pune (India). BMW Group and global product engineering and digital services company Tata Technologies announced that they have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to establish software and IT development centers in Pune, Bangalore and Chennai, India. Major development and operational activities will be carried out in Bangalore and Pune. In Chennai, the focus should be on business IT solutions. The signing of the joint venture agreement is yet to be reviewed and approved by relevant departments.

The joint venture embodies the ethos of “Engineers in India, serving the world” and will leverage Tata Technologies’ digital engineering expertise and talent pool in India to strategically expand software coding across the BMW Group’s global IT centers and 24/7 operations ability to contribute. The joint venture will focus on strategic software development, including solutions for software-defined vehicles (SDV). In terms of automotive software, the focus will be on autonomous driving, infotainment and digital services. On the commercial IT side, the focus will be on digitization and automation of product development, production and sales. The 100 well-trained and experienced TATA Technologies professionals will ensure strong and direct contribution to the software projects from the date of inception of the joint venture. The joint venture’s numbers could quickly grow into four digits over the next few years.

Christoph Grote, Senior Vice President Software and E/E Architecture, BMW Group said: “Our collaboration with Tata Technologies will accelerate our progress in the field of software-defined cars. Compared to the international world, India has a large number of outstanding software talents that can contribute to our software competitiveness. Developing vehicle software for the BMW Group This means using top-notch processes and tools, which in turn gives Indian software engineers the opportunity to shape state-of-the-art premium automotive experiences in future areas such as highly automated driving and artificial intelligence.”

“The expansion of international DevOps* centers has proven to be a successful model for the BMW Group,” said Alexander Buresch, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, BMW Group IT. “I am therefore extremely pleased that we have found such a strong and valuable technology partner in Tata Technologies and are now also expanding our presence in India.”

Commenting on this collaboration, Warren Harris, CEO and Managing Director, Tata Technologies” said, “Our cooperation with the BMW Group reflects our commitment to providing customers around the world with top-notch solutions in automotive software and digital engineering. In line with our vision of building a better world, we are pleased to bring our expertise to Bringing it to the forefront, helping the BMW Group design quality products, provide customers with excellent digital experiences, and drive its digital transformation journey in the business IT field.”

Nachiket Paranjpe, President Automotive Sales Tata Technologies commented: “In the evolving automotive landscape, the journey of software-defined cars represents a critical shift in automotive software and vehicle development approaches. We will leverage our deep domain knowledge and SDV expertise in partnership with the BMW Group to jointly Committed to engineering these vehicles to not only be technologically advanced, but also provide a superior experience to consumers around the world.”

The collaboration between Tata Technologies and BMW Group represents a shared vision of innovation and excellence in automotive engineering and digital solutions.

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Demand-driven and continuous expansion of global software expertise.

Thanks to the global distribution of BMW Group Software Centers, software can be developed and integrated instantly in the cloud around the clock. Global vehicle software development teams have created up to 140,000 software versions per day across the entire ECU software (1 version = 1 source code change/creation that can be executed in the vehicle software, including automated testing).

The BMW Group began its own automotive software development more than 20 years ago. Since then, it has continued to expand its global network of development teams for automotive software and business IT solutions. For several years now, IT and software centers in Germany, the United States, South Africa, India, Portugal (Joint Venture Critical TechWorks) and China (LingYue Digital IT Co. Ltd. and BA TechWorks) have been strengthening the software expertise of this premium manufacturer. Synergistically integrating digital vehicle environment software with business IT according to DevOps principles can provide significant advantages, especially in back-end and application development and operations. The BMW Group and its global joint ventures employ more than 9,400 IT and software developers, and the company continues to develop skills based on demand.

Just recently, the BMW Group announced the signing of a joint venture contract to build a new IT and software center in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In the future, the joint venture will provide development services for business IT in Europe, including software development for human resources, production, sales and BMW Group Financial Services. The performance of this contract is subject to approval by relevant departments.

* DevOps is a software development methodology that improves collaboration between developers (Dev) and operators (Ops) to achieve faster and more efficient delivery of software and services.