WebCenter Customer Spotlight: Hyundai Motor Company
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Author: Peter Reiser - Social Business Evangelist, Oracle WebCenter
Solution SummaryHyundai Motor Company is one of the world’s fastest-growing car
manufacturers, ranked as the fifth-largest in 2011. The company also
operates the world’s largest integrated automobile manufacturing
facility in Ulsan, Republic of Korea, which can produce 1.6 million
units per year.
They undertook a project to improve business efficiency and reinforce data
security by centralizing the company’s sales, financial, and car
manufacturing documents into a single repository.
Hyundai Motor Company
chose Oracle Exalogic, Oracle Exadata, Oracle WebLogic Sever, and Oracle
WebCenter Content 11g, as they provided better performance, stability, storage, and scalability than their competitors.
Hyundai Motor Company cut the overall time spent each day on
document-related work by around 85%, saved more than US$1 million in
paper and printing costs, laid the foundation for a smart work
environment, and supported their future growth in the competitive car
industry.
Company OverviewHyundai Motor Company is one of the world’s fastest-growing car
manufacturers, ranked as the fifth-largest in 2011. The company also
operates the world’s largest integrated automobile manufacturing
facility in Ulsan, Republic of Korea, which can produce 1.6 million
units per year. The company strives to enhance its brand image and
market recognition by continuously improving the quality and design of
its cars.
Business Challenges To maximize the company’s growth potential, Hyundai Motor Company
undertook a project to improve business efficiency and reinforce data
security by centralizing the company’s sales, financial, and car
manufacturing documents into a single repository. Specifically, they wanted to:
Introduce a smart work environment to improve staff productivity
and efficiency, and take advantage of rapid company growth due to new,
enhanced car designs
Replace a legacy document system managed by
individual staff to improve collaboration, the visibility of corporate
documents, and sharing of work-related files between employees
Improve
the security and storage of documents containing corporate intellectual
property, and prevent intellectual property loss when staff leaves the
company
Eliminate delays when downloading files from the central server to a PC
Build
a large, single document repository to more efficiently manage and
share data between 30,000 staff at the company’s headquarters
Establish a scalable system that can be extended to Hyundai offices around the world
Solution DeployedAfter conducting a large-scale benchmark test, Hyundai Motor Company
chose Oracle Exalogic, Oracle Exadata, Oracle WebLogic Sever, and Oracle
WebCenter Content 11g, as they provided better performance, stability, storage, and scalability than their competitors.
Business Results
Lowered the overall time spent each day on all document-related
work by approximately 85%—from 4.5 hours to around 42 minutes on an
average day
Saved more than US$1 million per year in printer,
paper, and toner costs, and laid the foundation for a completely
paperless environment
Reduced staff’s time spent requesting and
receiving documents about car sales or designs from supervisors by 50%,
by storing and managing all documents across the corporation in a single
repository
Cut the time required to draft new-car
manufacturing, sales, and design documents by 20%, by allowing employees
to reference high-quality data, such as marketing strategy and product
planning documents already in the system
Enhanced staff
productivity at company headquarters by 9% by reducing the
document-related tasks of 30,000 administrative and research and
development staff
Ensured
the system could scale to hold 3 petabytes of car sales, manufacturing,
and design data by 2013 and be deployed at branches worldwide
We chose Oracle Exalogic, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle WebCenter
Content to support our new document-centralization system over their
competitors as Oracle offers stable storage for petabytes of data and
high processing speeds. We have cut the overall time spent each day on
document-related work by around 85%, saved more than US$1 million in
paper and printing costs, laid the foundation for a smart work
environment, and supported our future growth in the competitive car
industry.
Kang Tae-jin, Manager, General Affairs Team, Hyundai Motor
Company
Additional Information
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