Philip Rademakers, Toyota Motor Europe

How "Toyota Way" principles guided the architecture of Toyota's product datahub and its REST API

Enterprise application integration is a headache for many IT organizations especially when different legacy applications are involved. The presentation will illustrate how several "Toyota Way" principles are applied within the Enterprise Architecture department of Toyota Motor Europe to guide the design of integration solutions. These will be practically illustrated using Toyota's product datahub as an example case. The presentation will elaborate on the product datahub's REST API as a mechanism for provisioning product data to internal IT applications. The talk will conclude with some reflection and "lessons learned" from the first implementation of the product datahub as we're expanding its utilization into the cloud.

Biography: Philip Rademakers graduated from the Free University of Brussels with a master degree in computer science (1988) and started his career as a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence lab of the same university working on knowledge based systems and computational reflection. He subsequently worked for more than 10 years for Sony, first in the area of digital broadcast products and later became responsible for all software development for Sony DVB-MHP based digital TVs. Philip joined the IT division of Toyota Motor Europe in 2005, worked in IT application delivery for the Toyota Purchasing and Quality business divisions. In January 2015, Philip joined the IT enterprise architecture department of Toyoto Motor Europe as a senior manager.