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 
   
    Hyundai Motor Company Customer Snapshot 
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