How Cox Automotive’s Client-Obsession Led to Digital Transformation and Innovation
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Cox Automotive describes moving from 50 data centers to 3 in five years by starting with lift-and-shift to the cloud, then teaching teams cloud-native engineering, breaking monoliths into a composable enterprise framework, and reusing services via API gateway, shared entity management and auth. Scale includes 150 data scientists, 2,500 engineers and 500 agile teams; outcomes include higher availability, rising customer satisfaction and 46 new products launched last year driven by a Cloud First Data Marketplace and ML-powered intelligence.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24Kellys Story
- 4:43About Cox Automotive
- 6:23History of Cox
- 8:45Cox Automotive Scale
- 11:21How to Enable Future Success
- 16:08Advice
- 18:01Impact of Women
- 19:18Outro
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