Client Case: Volkswagen AG

Volkswagen is a globally active group that has to master a wide range of challenges. The Wolfsburg-based car manufacturer's software landscape is at least as diverse. Dr Paul Hünecke, Head of Strategy & Principles for Legal Affairs and Integrity at VW, describes it like this: "Our division in Wolfsburg alone operates almost 60 applications, including for integrity, compliance, risk management and legal affairs. Each piece of software is unique. It has to be maintained and operated. That costs time and money."

We have supported Volkswagen AG in bundling and optimising this software diversity. The majority of the apps are summarised in one platform. This makes the daily work of VW employees in the area of integrity and legal affairs much easier. We launched the Integrity and Legal Affairs (ILA) Platform together with Microsoft as part of our partnership.  

You can find out more about our ILA project at Volkswagen in our video:

For the "VW ILA Platform" project, we automated heterogeneous use cases and brought them together in a user-friendly app. The technological backbone of the project was the "Microsoft Power Platform". The use of a single platform leads to significant simplification for IT operations and users. These advantages are particularly noticeable in large and multi-layered governance and organisational structures - such as at the Volkswagen Group.

The KPMG team has developed apps, automated workflows and dashboards. The IT department at Volkswagen AG rolled out the Microsoft Power platform in the Group at the same time. The most important goal of the project was to harmonise VW's fragmented IT landscape. To achieve this, we used agile methods to enable a fast and cost-efficient approach. A prototype was created for each use case. This helped to test the functionality and adapt it to VW's needs.

The ILA project not only offers VW direct benefits in the Integrity and Legal divisions. It also harbours potential for other business areas within the Group.