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Bernhard Winkler   Automotive Lighting 35 automotiveIT 2012 a problem frequently results If we have to enter new territory for the solution it takes place in close coordination with our Italian colleagues at our headquarters Nothing basically prevents us at Automotive Ligh ting from taking a pioneering role provided that there is value added for the group la ter Automotive Lighting develops soft ware for lighting control components and body controllers on its own Does the company have some kind of advan tage in this area We still see a clear dividing line here The automakers also differentiate between in formation technology in the vehicle and in the business That is also the case at Au tomotive Lighting But I assume that there will be fully integrated approaches in a few years And what will that mean for your IT operations It will substantially change the role of the CIO IT will mainly keep developing toward the business side whatever the industry Today however we are closer to all the specialized departments than to the other cross sectional areas and thus we are de stined to be link to support the company s increasingly complex communication re quirements I consider the trend to clearly be in the direction of integration technolo gy As a corporate IT department we must not limit ourselves to keeping the server running in the background but must positi on ourselves as an active business partner In the process could an advanced cloud computing approach offer bene fits With the outsourcing of our server infra structure we are already working with a kind of private cloud in which we can access outsourced application data glo bally In our view some issues relating to software as a service still require some explanation especially with regard to the confidentiality of the data and the legal framework That is why it is actively not on our agenda And what about mobile devices The situation is different for mobile device management Here we are actively trying to bring the transparency that our back end systems deliver to the workplace to mobile devices such as the I Pad even though the I Pad was developed for private use and is not fully oriented to business use A pi lot test has been running since January to allow key figure queries from SAP in real time We already see operation as a chal lenge It has to be as intuitive as possible The acceptance of these offerings rises and falls on this But I am sure that the world of information will move strongly in this direction Interview by Ralf Bretting and Hilmar Dunker