Digitalization future-proofs business thanks to connectivity and the cloud

Schmitz Cargobull AG is Europe’s market leader in manufacturing refrigerated vehicles. Management knew that to fulfill their customers’ need to track vehicles and loads at all times required scaling up access to data from multiple databases to one location in the cloud—creating a “data lake.” With Microsoft Azure supported by Azure DevOps, these customers now have access to a portal where they can check the location and condition of each vehicle, regardless of where the underlying data lives. Such a solution would have been costly on-premises, but using Azure turnkey modules reduced time to market and the need for in-house…