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AVL Software and Functions GmbH (AVL) with its headquarters in Regensburg, is one of the world’s leading mobility technology companies for development, simulation, and testing in the automotive industry, and in other sectors. Drawing on its pioneering spirit, the company provides concepts, solutions, and methodologies for a greener, safer and better world of mobility.
As a global technology provider, AVL’s offerings range from simulation, virtualization, and test automation for product development to ADAS/AD and vehicle software. The company combines state-of-the-art and highly scalable IT, software and technology solutions with its application know-how, thereby offering customers extensive tools in areas such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or Embedded Systems.
AVL’s passion is innovation. Together with 620 employees spread across six location worldwide, AVL is supporting customers in their mobility ambitions.
AVL and xelerate.tech are partnering to share expertise and completing competencies as a team, through its tech hub set up in Porto.
xelerate.tech is the incubator/accelerator to their business shift (software and service), transformation (electric and autonomous vehicles), and “digitalization” (cloud-based services, software-defined cars) within the mobility sector.
Digital Production
Advanced Xelerate Tech
xelerate.tech and Advanced Applications GmbH share a joint vision of building innovative software products in the field of digital production and process automation.
xelerate.tech and Advanced Application GmbH joined forces and set up a new entity, “Advanced Xelerate Tech” in the city of Porto.
Digital Manufacturing is revolutionizing the way companies manufacture, improve and distribute their products. Manufacturers are integrating new technologies, including the Internet of Things, cloud computing and analytics, and AI and machine learning into their production facilities and throughout their operations.
We see digital manufacturing as a technology-based approach to link different data silos and processes in the manufacturing lifecycle so that manufacturing-driven companies can make better business decisions both comprehensively and at each step.
As we have several industry champions in the production and logistics sector in Europe, we clearly see a vast potential to increase industrial efficiency by leveraging the potential of data.
- Leveraging the massive potential production data by liking existing data and processes to monitor and continuously improve production processes
- Seamless vertical integration of production processes & integration of machine and process data and shifting manufacturing processes to paperless production by implementing a fully digital and integrated production value chain
- Create company value through data to enable optimized control of manufacturing processes as well as meaningful performance analysis and planning for internal and external stakeholders
- Enable a new level of cost efficiency and sustainability in production and logistics
Digital Commerce
Xelerate Markant Services International Portugal Lda
Xelerate.tech and Markant Services International GmbH are on the same page with their shared goal of creating cutting-edge software products / B2B platform to connect retailers and suppliers.
Xelerate.tech and Markant Services International GmbH joined forces and set up a new entity, “Xelerate Markant Services International Portugal Lda” in the city of Porto.
Markant acts as a partner for retailers and suppliers, making them a perfect connection. Throughout Markant’s entire value chain solutions, retailers and suppliers can take their business units to the next level.
With the digital processes evolution, it is needed to modernize legacy systems and create cloud-based and innovative software products that will leverage Markant’s partner’s experience. In this way, Markant is investing in a new platform focused on efficiency, sustainability, and predictable solutions.
Integrated Facility Management
ISS Tech Portugal
ISS is a Danish-headquartered world-leading provider of facility management services (cleaning, catering, security, support, workplace services, and technical issues…).
Its history began in 1901. Currently, ISS has 370.000 (three hundred and seventy thousand) employees, and 40.500 (forty thousand five hundred) customers across more than 30 countries.
Technology is seen as a key tool to support this transformation. ISS started investing in its own software engineering competences, adopting and creating high-end innovative tech solutions, hiring the most talented IT people, and creating a unique and agile IT working model and collaboration culture based on engineering best practices and nordic quality of life.
ISS chose xelerate.tech as their partner to help build their first tech center in Portugal. This center is working on a portfolio of highly interesting and innovative topics that will impact in a very positive way our society and our lives. And that brought us together.
ISS Tech Portugal will majorly contribute to ISS’s global goal to accelerate integrated digital technologies and establish innovative digital products for its 350,000 internal employees and 40,000 global customers. Developing disruptive and high-quality solutions in the IoT, Mobile, Data and Integrations areas is the key focus for the new teams in Portugal.
Logistics
Kuehne + Nagel is the 2nd largest logistics company in the world. Kuehne + Nagel has about 80,000 employees, is in more than 100 countries, has 1600 offices around the world, which is why it is a giant organization. It is an outstanding leader in maritime freight.
Kuehne + Nagel is investing heavily in technology. As with any logistics company, Kuehne + Nagel’s biggest challenge is optimization. They have three major development hubs: Hamburg, Tallinn, and Porto.
In July 2021, Xelerate helped them open the hub in Porto. in May 2022, we left the hub management, currently being at cruising speed.
