>> Daimler AG has more than
a 130 years experience,
tradition, and
innovation building
their best and most
beautiful cars in the world.
>> We are three purchasing
units: The car purchasing,
the truck group, and the
non-production material.
Those are making
new procurement system.
The old system was outdated,
both from a functional
perspective
and also from the IT perspective.
>> Our IT strategy is speed,
being fast, being fast
for the customer.
This is one of the reasons why we
choose Azure because you're
extremely fast in terms of
getting hardware
ready for the system.
>> Within IT and the business
decided to go to the cloud.
We took the best available
components on the market.
So, Icertis for awarding
and sourcing components,
and we put this together
with Infosys in
the SAP landscape for
all the procurement processes.
I was confident from the first
minute that this will be
successful with Microsoft
and the Azure cloud.
>> We realized that
the new procurement system
needed a lot of speed
and agile way of
working to deliver
the customer experience.
Azure not only gives
an infrastructure which was
very robust and scalable,
but it was delivered with
high speed and agility.
>> Only three months later,
we kicked off
the first functionalities
within the SAP landscape.
With a project at
this scale and this size,
would have taken many,
many months longer on-premise.
>> SAP on HANA,
coupled with the Azure
infrastructure
is extremely secure and reliable,
so we believe that the stack
will stand the test of time.
>> Now, the big topic
is disaster recovery,
which means if the
infrastructure is gone,
we just run those
scripts in Azure and
the infrastructure is
built up on another site,
let's say, in North Europe.
We are saving 40 to 50 percent of
the infrastructure
costs Azure compared
to the regular data center costs.
>> At the end, around
4,500 buyers will use NPS.
Around 60 percent of $160
billion is handled with NPS.
That's a big chunk of money and
a big chunk of responsibility.
This is the pioneering
project with
this size of infrastructure,
with this system, with this
awesome team that we have here,
with this spirit
that we have here.
That motivates me every day,
and we see the results in
the user's experience.