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Mattias Ulbrich   Audi AG 47 automotiveIT 2012 rience it true to life on a one to one scale on screens that nearly fill a room Along with the development and sales depart ments IT is the technological enabler for this On the infrastructure side we have started to modernize our company net work In the next three years we will put the active network components into ope ration at all locations Germany wide We need more capacity and bandwidth for the growing data traffic How long does it take for a server to go into operation at Audi once it has been ordered Hours weeks months Virtual servers are available in just a few hours Standard hardware is acquired wi thin days In the end it is the technical re quirements that the systems are designed to meet that are crucial to the total amount of time required At all events we must guarantee performance and security The last item in particular is not just a matter of the technical design You need the right mentality within the company to be able to continually increase data security and data protection The creativity to detect security leaks from outside the company is growing and not declining As a consequence we are increasing our investment in IT securi ty Audi employees today can only access confidential information if they have the appropriate authorization on their PKI cards You have agreed on a rotation system with Volkswagen IT that began on July 1 The goal is to draw IT employees out of their silos and deploy them interna tionally across all the corporate brands Does Audi need to catch up in this area Networking within the group has always been very important I am a good examp le myself I started at Audi in 1998 then I spent three years as CIO at Seat in Spain and then six years at Volkswagen head quarters in Wolfsburg And today I am back at Audi I consider the technical insights that you gain with these kinds of profes sional changes to be the crucial aspect for successful cooperation within the Volks wagen Group Even at the moment for mer colleagues from Audi IT have been given international assignments within the Group in the UK Slovakia and Russia for example This is exactly what the rotation system is designed to support Internatio nal assignments should be the rule for IT executives not the exception Interview by Ralf Bretting and Hilmar Dunker