Case 08 · Automotive since 2025

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System migration within the group: a seamless switch for a central workshop system

After sales IT · Senior IT Project Manager · MAN Truck & Bus · interface to Volkswagen

Starting point

The system behind it changes. Access must not.

A central documentation system on the VW side is being replaced by a successor system. For the workshops, the familiar, seamless access via the MAN Service Portal has to keep working with the new system too, without any break in daily work.

One access point, a system change behind it

Legacy system (VW side)

Successor system (VW side)

MAN Service Portal

workshops worldwide · unchanged entry point

Three core workstreams on the MAN side

01

SSO integration with the new system

so that access for the workshops stays as seamless as before

02

Go-live planning across both sides of the group

aligned with everyone involved · go-live scheduled for late 2026

03

Training material with the internal academy

so workshops experience the switch prepared rather than surprised

What I take away

A migration succeeds when the user barely notices it.

The real work is not in the new system but in the transitions: access, timing, preparing the people.

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