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CAF Accelerates Digital Transformation with Cloud Tech to Drive Efficiency and Sustainability

Digital Transformation

Business Honor
30 May, 2025

Cloud solutions boost CAF’s manufacturing, data insight, and green transport innovation efforts.

A Spanish rail and bus maker, CAF, is racing to adopt digital transformation. The firm is transitioning away from the slow, legacy IT systems that have been holding it back to adopt a contemporary cloud-based system. The motivation for the transformation is enhancing manufacturing efficiency and sustainability.

With the implementation of cloud solutions, CAF has managed to redesign its most critical business processes, such as data management, sales, procurement, manufacturing, and worker processes. The organization uses the new technology in an effort to react timely to the shift in the market and to react conveniently to complex business needs.

The company is now in a good position to face future challenges, according to Guillermo Apellaniz, CAF's director of digital transformation. The new infrastructure also allows for the testing of new technologies like artificial intelligence, which can enhance the productivity of the company.

Through the integration of SAP's Business Data Cloud and Datasphere products, CAF will utilize data consumption in the future. This will speed up data analysis and allow the business to make more informed and timely decisions. Further, as SAP rolls out SAP Databricks, CAF will be well-equipped to manage data from its different product lines, leaving room for combining business and product insights.

CAF's technology drive also aligns with its embrace of sustainability. The company produces low- and zero-emission trains, metros, and buses, and new technology underlies making these environmentally friendly initiatives possible.

The role of flexible and robust software solutions to support CAF's high-tech projects and supply chains was illustrated by Jose Valles, managing director of SAP Spain. He was impressed by what SAP had achieved in enabling CAF to follow its digital and sustainability ambitions.

This change is a significant milestone for CAF as it redefines business, efficiency, and positions itself on the market in the transport sector.