Driving digitalisation without overloading IT resources

Challenge

VTG GmbH is the European market leader in the production and maintenance of freight wagons. As part of the company's transformation, the IT landscape underwent a far-reaching transformation as well: more than 50 IT projects emerged, each with numerous pending technology decisions.

The process had so far been run highly manually in Excel and without clear guidelines. At the same time, the company already operated a large IT portfolio that had to be reviewed to avoid unnecessary new purchases. This caused significant frustration on both the IT and business sides.

IT management faced the task of modernising the process to support the transformation's success.

Solution

VTG chose Stackgini as the central governance layer for its software selection process.

With the platform, VTG was able to optimise the painful parts of software selection and significantly accelerate requirements capture.

Stackgini enabled a complete review of available IT solutions in the market as well as the internal IT portfolio (via the LeanIX integration), without putting unnecessary load on IT resources.

Result

In just 12 months, VTG delivered 15 strategic initiatives via a single demand process for all business units, structured 834 requirements with AI assistance and market data, and gained 11,859 well-founded data points from vendor responses and assessments. Time-to-market was reduced by 8 weeks in the process.