CARUSO is a neutral B2B data and service market place around telematics services for drivers, vehicles, fleets of vehicles. Thus, CARUSO establishes an ecosystem of parts suppliers, workshops, trade organizations, insurances, fleet and leasing organizations, and further companies of the automotive aftermarket. Building up the ecosystem is a key cornerstone of the digital transformation of a traditional industry. This comes with many unknowns and requires a high degree of flexibility.
We share architecture experiences from establishing the ecosystem in the constant tension of business, legal, and technology. The way to a successful ecosystem leads us through many experiments and requires constant revision of decisions.
Key challenges are openness of the ecosystem with high security and trust at the same time. Further, growing an ecosystem requires a set of first high quality offerings on the market place and we continuously need to align the onboarded partners offering and consuming data and services. The ecosystem needs to be attractive for new partners, in particular in the early phase of startup.
We want to share experiences about ecosystem architecture that go far beyond technical architecture aspects.