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 _

Services _

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

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