Volvo came onto the scene in 1927 on the island of Hisingen, Goteborg. Over the years, Volvo enhanced and developed a line of vehicles which is known for its quality and performance. “Volvo’s vision is to become the world’s leader in sustainable transport solution by the following: 1.) pioneering products and services for transport and infrastructure, 2.) driving quality and environmental care, and many other attributes.
While technology is playing an aggressive role in society, Volvo branches off and showed its independence by adapting Cloud Computing. By implementing Cloud Computing, it haves it benefits such as “offering a way to get services that are very attractive to build the company, and take the IT resources and put them on things that are differentiators for the Volvo car company. Another benefit is that once it is put in place, it has no place to go but up and “continue to improve with time”.
Volvo Car Corporation transform data into knowledge by creating vehicles with hundreds of sensors and CPU’s embedded throughout the car. “Besides vehicle data gathered by sensors in and on the vehicle, we also collect visual information from four cameras. This gives us a good view of what happened in the car and on the road at any given point in time”.
An example of the data transformation is when the central locking information is being taken for the use of the vehicle and then conveyed via the cloud back to Volvo. “Through the cloud Volvo is massing large amount of rich data and this is providing them with the opportunity to “turn that resource into something that no only helps build better cars, but also helps the customer have a better experience”.

The real-time system point outs the vehicle’s present location, and displays some or the complete route to a pre-determined destination, depending on the driver’s settings. Furthermore, if a driver needed to deviate from a route initially set by the system, a new route to the destination automatically will be calculated. (Volvo Navigation System Operating Manual, 2011.)
Another real-time system, “CareTrack is Volvo Construction Equipment’s state-of-the-art telematics system used to manage a machine’s productivity and maximize its availability for work. Using GPRS (mobile network) or satellite technology to send information, data is available securely and instantaneously to any remote online connection.”
The Big Data strategy gives Volvo Car Corporation a competitive advantage.
As innovators, we anticipate success and hope to succeed. Over the years, Volvo has demonstrated that technology enhancements are the new direction to an effective vehicle. Their Big Data strategy has permitted Volvo to evaluate variations of vehicle and buyers consent. From specific measures to ensure the safety of its consumer, Volvo is now vested to create new and improved vehicles. Big Data provides Volvo a better sense of alliance from its unique design to engineering a top of the line vehicle.
Volvo continues to create new innovations in the automobile industry. Technology has played a vital part on vehicle quality and performance. However, Volvo’s data warehouse may have persuaded other auto maker to “step there game up.” In addition, this show that with a strong team, and thinking minds anything is possible.

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