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HERE Technologies & AWS Launch SDV Accelerator to Transform Automotive Software
SDV Accelerator enables automakers with 70% faster development, 30% reduced R&D costs, seamless AWS-HERE integration, and partner-driven cloud-native solutions.
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HERE Technologies (HERE), a leading mapping and location technology company, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced the introduction of SDV Accelerator. This initiative offers an automotive-tailored solution guidance with a comprehensive SDV architecture and sample code, as well as a curation of AWS services and partner solutions in AWS Marketplace to help automakers fast-track the development of their software-defined vehicles (SDVs). SDV Accelerator is expanding the AWS-HERE strategic collaboration that began in 2022 to help automakers deliver smarter driving experiences and help enable businesses to optimize their supply chains.
While SDVs represent a major technological breakthrough in automotive development, the industry faces challenges with fragmented development environments, traditional supply chain models, and lack of standardized practices. SDV Accelerator helps accelerate automakers’ path to SDV development through a carefully curated collection of solutions offered in AWS Marketplace, jointly selected by AWS and HERE. This curated list features offerings from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), who play a central role in the automotive industry’s shift to cloud-native implementations.
Additionally, SDV Accelerator provides guidance designed to help customers integrate these solutions into their existing development environments, helping empower teams - working across ADAS, in-vehicle infotainment, and other parts of the vehicle - to use partner tools while maintaining control over their development processes and architectural choices. By simplifying access to this curated collection of AWS services and partner solutions, SDV Accelerator helps enable manufacturers, suppliers, and ISVs to focus on innovation and differentiation rather than infrastructure integration, helping reduce development time across the automotive supply chain.
HERE Technologies seamlessly integrated into SDV Accelerator
SDV Accelerator delivers HERE’s mapping and location technology in a unified manner to power smooth, consistent experiences across navigation, automated driving, and electric vehicle range management. This more seamless integration helps enable automakers to utilize the HERE Navigation software development kit (SDK) to build differentiated, branded navigation interfaces, while helping to build, test and validate advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), all within the customer’s virtualized development environment.
SDV Accelerator features SceneXtract, a simulation tool developed by HERE and AWS. SceneXtract helps enable rapid generation of virtual driving scenes, accelerating the validation of ADAS and autonomous driving functions.
SDV Accelerator brings together industry technology leaders such as Arm, Elektrobit, FORVIA, Micware, Mireo, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Panasonic Automotive Systems and QNX, to help enhance customers’ ability to innovate, customize, and differentiate their products and functionality.
Additional partner technologies will become available for automakers and tier 1 suppliers using SDV Accelerator.
SDV Accelerator helps deliver transformative advantages for automotive development such as:
- Development Efficiency: Building on proven virtualization benefits that help enable up to 70% faster development cycles, up to 30% reduction in R&D costs, and up to 7x more testing capabilities.
- Open Architecture: Designed to help enhance customers' development environments that align with industry standards like SOAFEE (Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge) to help interoperability and scalability, while preserving automakers' control over their architecture and user experience.
- Partner Solutions: Provides guidance and sample code for integrating AWS cloud services, HERE mapping and location technology, and partner solutions. This helps enable automakers to streamline discovery, subscription management, metering, license management, and consumption functionalities in customers' development environments – all through validated mechanisms in AWS Marketplace.
- Innovation Accelerator: Helps streamline automotive supply chain collaboration while enabling ISVs to modernize their offerings with API-first, cloud-native approaches via the AWS Marketplace Workbench Ready Program.
“The SDV Accelerator represents a breakthrough solution to the automotive industry’s most pressing challenge: getting innovative vehicles to market faster,” said Ozgur Tohumcu, General Manager of Automotive & Manufacturing at AWS. “By more seamlessly integrating cloud-native tools with proven partner solutions, we’re helping empower automotive manufacturers to focus on what truly matters—breakthrough innovation. This game-changing platform allows OEMs to maintain control over their technology decisions and supplier networks while helping eliminate traditional integration bottlenecks that have historically slowed progress.”
Remco Timmer, Senior Vice President and Head of Automotive Solutions at HERE Technologies, said: "The shift to software-defined vehicles demands a new model, one that fosters collaboration with the ability to differentiate. SDV Accelerator gives automakers the power to build and manage their software and technology in a way that keeps them focused on innovation throughout the SDV lifecycle. With an open partner environment and scalable architecture, it helps automakers to reduce cycle time and embrace collaboration while maintaining control over their brand experience and product roadmap.”
To get started with SDV Accelerator and access the reference architecture, sample code, interactive workshops and learn about the partner solutions in AWS Marketplace, visit this link.
Whether you're focusing on virtual testing, continuous integration, or deployment automation, SDV Accelerator provides the framework and support to accelerate your journey.
www.here.com
Remco Timmer, Senior Vice President and Head of Automotive Solutions at HERE Technologies, said: "The shift to software-defined vehicles demands a new model, one that fosters collaboration with the ability to differentiate. SDV Accelerator gives automakers the power to build and manage their software and technology in a way that keeps them focused on innovation throughout the SDV lifecycle. With an open partner environment and scalable architecture, it helps automakers to reduce cycle time and embrace collaboration while maintaining control over their brand experience and product roadmap.”
To get started with SDV Accelerator and access the reference architecture, sample code, interactive workshops and learn about the partner solutions in AWS Marketplace, visit this link.
Whether you're focusing on virtual testing, continuous integration, or deployment automation, SDV Accelerator provides the framework and support to accelerate your journey.
www.here.com
