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From data silos to
connected value chains

As operator of Catena-X and other industrial data ecosystems, Cofinity-X enables sovereign and secure data collaboration across industries.

Use Cases

Catena-X

Catena-X is the data ecosystem for the automotive and related industries. It provides a shared
language and a unified way to communicate data. Once connected, companies can exchange any kind of data based on common standards and rules. This enables a wide range of use cases in areas such as sustainability, supply chain resilience, and quality management.

Why Catena-X?

Today's challenges call for collaboration.
We unite the automotive industry to adress them

Security & decentralization

Catena-X prioritises security by design. Rather than storing data in a central cloud or routing it through a central authority, Catena-X allows secure peer-to-peer data exchange via each participant's dataspace connector (EDC).

Ease of value chain collaboration

In an increasingly complex world, Catena-X facilitates streamlined processes and more efficient collaboration through the entire automotive value chain. An interoperable ecosystem replaces individual, partner‑specific ways of exchanging data.

Be an attractive partner

New regulations and digitalization demand more data, especially from large companies. Consequently, OEMs now require participation in Catena-X for future tenders and partnerships.

Less manual effort, lower costs

Uniform standards promote digitalisation and enable automation. This minimises operational activities. Less manual effort leads to lower costs throughout the entire supply chain.

Better data, better decisions

Standardised data and interfaces enable faster data transfer with better quality. They provide the basis for data-driven decisions.

A collaborative approach as an answer to global challenges

Catena-X dataspace brings the automotive industry together to solve challgenges, which can only be adresses with intendes and strong collaboration - regulations, price wars, traceability, demand and capacity, quality, and many more.

Foundation for Industrial AI

Digital readiness enabled by Catena-X provides the essential foundation for successful AI adoption by ensuring that organizations have the necessary data and infrastructure to scale intelligent solutions powered by accurate supply chain data.
Marketplace

Your journey into
the Catena-X ecosystem

Cofinity-X is your gateway to Catena-X. We facilitate your onboarding, provide you with a digital identity, and offer ongoing customer support.

Register your company

Confirm your company details, such as VAT-ID and address.

Connect your systems

Before you can exchange data, you need an EDC connector. Buy a solution on our marketplace or develop your own.

Explore the marketplace

Access leading apps designed to fit your specific use case.
Marketplace

 Solve your business problems with apps & services

Explore the Cofinity-X Marketplace to find certified applications and services that help you manage CO₂ emissions, improve product quality, and unlock data-driven insights.

Trusted by 4,000+ companies

Hauke Stars

In Volkswagen Group’s New Auto Strategy, digitalization plays a central role in making manufacturing more efficient and sustainable, improving our customer experience and gearing up our business model for the future. The prerequisite for this is connecting manufacturers, suppliers and partners in a secure data ecosystem. Catena-X is the framework for such a collaborative, open platform along the entire value chain. With our joint venture, Cofinity-X, we are now implementing this vision: via an open marketplace with applications and services that enable secure and standardized data exchange between all players. Cofinity-X customers can access applications and services to realize strategic use cases such as CO2 and ESG monitoring, component traceability and circular economy. We especially want to make it easier for small and medium-sized companies to participate in this data ecosystem on an equal footing. This is how we are taking the digitalization of the automotive industry to the next level.

Hauke Stars
Member of the Executive Board, IT & Digitalization - Volkswagen Group
Hauke Stars
Timotheus Höttges

Deutsche Telekom is proud to be a Catena-X technology partner from the very beginning. With the founding of the first Catena-X operating company, we are now a big step closer to our common goal: to span a cloud-based data network for a digitalized European automotive industry. A network governed by data sovereignty, full GDPR compliance and highest security standards.

Timotheus Höttges
CEO Deutsche Telekom AG
Timotheus Höttges
Cedrik Neike

The joint venture helps us to achieve sustainability and efficiency goals in the automotive industry faster and more efficiently. This is only possible in a strong team at eye level between the automotive industry, suppliers and equipment manufacturers. Siemens provides Catena-X applications that can be used by all participants in the automotive value chain, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.

Cedrik Neike
Member of the Managing Board & CEO Digital Industries - Siemens AG
Cedrik Neike
Klaus Rosenfeld

Together with sustainability, digitalization is driving the transformation of today’s automotive industry. This transformation can only be successful with a trustworthy and secure data exchange along the entire value chain. This requires top standards and, therefore, a common effort between strong partners. As one of the founding members of Cofinity-X, Schaeffler is proud to be contributing to this essential goal.

Klaus Rosenfeld
CEO Schaeffler AG
Klaus Rosenfeld
Christian Klein

Catena-X aims to provide greater resiliency and transparency to the automotive value chain, improving its quality and efficiency for all companies involved. This open and collaborative data ecosystem perfectly reflects SAP’s vision to enable every organization’s participation in a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises. It also gives the companies leveraging the Catena-X automotive network access to a broad portfolio of SAP solutions, from enabling the traceability of products across multiple parties in the supply chain to tracking and calculating Scope 3 emissions. Cofinity-X marks another important milestone in this pioneering project, and one to which we are excited to contribute.

Christian Klein
CEO SAP SE
Christian Klein
Markus Schäfer

At Mercedes-Benz, we’re convinced that transparency, efficiency and data sovereignty are the key levers for sustainable and data-driven value chains. Through the new Cofinity-X joint venture, we are bringing to life the Catena-X vision of an open ecosystem for secure and standardized data exchange along the entire value chain. The first solutions are almost ready and, thanks to Cofinity-X, every company in the automotive sector can shortly benefit from services and offers that use the results of Catena-X.

Markus Schäfer
Member of the Board of Management, CTO Development & Procurement - Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Markus Schäfer
Markus Kamieth

As the leading chemical supplier to the automotive industry, we see tremendous opportunities in operating an ecosystem based on standardized digital services and harmonized data models. This will strengthen supply chain resilience, improve transparency and accelerate the transformation towards circularity and net-zero carbon footprints across many material categories.

Markus Kamieth
CEO BASF SE
Markus Kamieth
Oliver Zipse

The challenges that industries across the globe are facing today can only be solved with a joint and holistic approach to enhance our entire value chains: making them more traceable, more sustainable, more resilient. Catena-X and Cofinity-X have the potential to be a game changer in this endeavor.

Oliver Zipse
CEO BMW AG
Oliver Zipse
Mark Dorn

The collaboration among OEMs, suppliers and partners is crucial to improve the much-needed transparency along the entire value chain. While Catena-X is pioneering the definition of common standards in key areas such as circular economy, carbon footprint tracking and parts traceability in the automotive industry, we see the new joint venture (Cofinity-X) as a further driver of the digital transformation in the industry and Henkel is highly committed to be a part of it.

Mark Dorn
Executive VP Adhesive Technologies & Member of the Board - Henkel Adhesive Technologies
Mark Dorn
Oliver Ganser

Cofinity-X is pioneering the industrialization of Catena-X standards and software artifacts to offer an onboarding point for customers to the Catena-X dataspace. I’m excited to see the first truly open and interoperable product and service portfolio come to life and derive value for all our members.

Oliver Ganser
CEO Catena-X Automotive Network e.V.
Oliver Ganser