Munich, Pune (India). The BMW Group and Tata
Technologies, a global product engineering and digital services
company, have announced that they have signed an agreement to form a
JV with the aim to establish a software and IT development hub with
locations in Pune, Bangalore and Chennai, India. The main development
and operations activities shall be established at Bangalore and Pune.
In Chennai, the focus shall be on business IT solutions. The execution
of the JV agreement is subject to review and approval by the relevant authorities.

Embodying the ethos of ‘Engineer in India for the World’, the JV
will leverage Tata Technologies’ digital engineering expertise and
talent pool in India to contribute to the BMW Group’s strategic
expansion of software coding capabilities across global IT hubs and
24/7 operations. The JV will focus on strategic software development,
including solutions for software defined vehicles (SDV). In automotive
software, the focus will be on automated driving, infotainment and
digital services. In business IT, the emphasis will be on
digitalization and automation of product development, production and
sales. From the inception of this JV, 100 trained and experienced TATA
Technologies professionals will ensure robust and immediate
contribution to software projects. The JV is likely to grow quickly to
a four-digit number in the following years.

Christoph Grote, Senior Vice President of Software and E/E
Architecture at BMW Group said: “Our collaboration with
Tata Technologies will accelerate our progress in the field of the
software defined vehicle. In international comparison, India boasts a
large number of talents with outstanding software skills, who can
contribute to our software competence. Developing vehicle software for
the BMW Group means working with top-class processes and tools, which
in turn gives Indian software engineers the chance to shape
state-of-the-art, premium automotive experiences in future fields such
as highly automated driving and artificial intelligence.”

“The expansion of international DevOps* hubs has clearly proved
to be a successful model for the BMW Group,” said Alexander
Buresch, CIO and Senior Vice President of BMW Group IT. “I
am therefore extremely pleased that we have found a strong and valued
technology partner with Tata Technologies and are now also expanding
our footprint in India.”

Commenting on the collaboration, Warren Harris, CEO and
MD of Tata Technologies, said, “Our collaboration with the
BMW Group demonstrates our commitment to providing top-tier solutions
in automotive software and digital engineering to customers across the
world. Aligned with our vision of engineering a better world, we’re
excited to bring our expertise to the forefront, aiding BMW Group in
engineering premium products, delivering great digital experiences for
their customers and propelling its digital transformation journey in
Business IT.”

Nachiket Paranjpe, President of Automotive Sales at
Tata Technologies, commented, “In the evolving automotive
landscape, the journey towards software-defined vehicle represents a
pivotal shift in automotive software and vehicle development
methodologies. We will leverage our deep domain knowledge and SDV
expertise to collaborate with the BMW Group towards engineering
vehicles that are not just technologically advanced but deliver
exceptional experiences to consumers around the globe.”

This 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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Consistent, demand-oriented expansion of worldwide software expertise.

Thanks to the global distribution of the BMW Group’s software hubs,
software is developed and integrated in real time in the cloud around
the clock. The global development team for vehicle software is already
creating up to 140,000 software builds per day across the entire ECU
software (1 build = 1 source code change/creation that can be executed
in the vehicle software, including automated testing).

The BMW Group started its own automotive software development
over 20 years ago. Since then, it has continuously expanded its global
network of development teams for both automotive software and business
IT solutions. For several years now, IT- & Software Hubs in
Germany, the US, South Africa, India, Portugal (Joint Venture Critical
TechWorks) and China (LingYue Digital IT Co. Ltd. and BA TechWorks)
have been strengthening the premium manufacturer’s software expertise.
Combining software for digital vehicle environments and business IT
synergistically according to the DevOps principle provides major
advantages, particularly when it comes to backend and application
development and operation. In total, over 9,400 people work in IT and
software development for the BMW Group and its Joint Ventures
worldwide and the company continues to build up skills successively
and demand-based.

Just recently, the BMW Group had announced the signing of a JV
contract with regard to the establishment of a new IT and software hub
in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In the future, this JV will provide
development services for business IT in Europe, including software
development for human resources, production, sales and BMW Group
Financial Services. Execution of this contract is still subject to
review and approval by the relevant authorities.

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