Jaguar Land Rover is once again a single manufacturing business. The two makers of luxury cars, SUVs and military off-road vehicles were once British state owned as part of British Leyland, today they are single company, but owned by the Indian Tata Motors corporation which bought the two firms from US automotive maker Ford in 2008. Under Tata the company has expanded considerably and during the downturn been a manufacturing good story for the British economy as its financial basis crashed. In March 2011 it added 1500 staff to its Halewood factory, followed by an announcement in September 2011 that it was investing £355 million in a new engine factory in Wolverhampton and then in November 2011 it announced a 25 per cent increase in its workforce at its Solihull location. Sales of its Range Rover SUV remain globally strong and a new model was added the Range Rover Evoque in 2011. IT Leader:Jeremy Vincent, CIOReporting line: Reports directly into CEO Dr Ralf SpethBoard level seat: YesIT budget: £251million, £100million for operations, £151m for projectsIT estate and or number of log on accounts under the control of the IT leader: Around 16,400 accounts, to also support dealers and suppliersLevel of the workforce that relies on technology to carry out their tasks: 75 per centIT staff currently employed: 600Split between in-house/outsourced staff: one third are in-house, two thirds are outsourcedIT management team and reporting structure: Seven direct reports: SAP Programme Director Dave Osmond; CTO Mike Bell; Project Portfolio Director Alex Rammal; Service Delivery Director david Barraclough; Business Relationship Director Nathan Summers; Asia Pacific IT Manager Andy Foster; North America IT Manager Simon ClarkPrimary technology platforms at the organisation: Complex and bespoke architecture, legacy from the various owners of Jaguar and Land Rover – we are going through a number of major change programmes to harmonise our IT landscape – the major IT technology platforms used within JLR are:PLM – Dassault (Ennovia and CAtia)PLC – Siemens Team CentreCorporate systems – SAPCollaboration – Corporate Gmail Primary technology suppliers:SAP, IBM, TTL, DassaultSignificant strategic technology deals been struck in the last 12 months:TML group wide licensing for SAP and Oracle.IBM (including Bearing Point and Teradata) for a data warehousing and management information solution – SAP Business Objects and Teradata (Bollywood).IBM for Websphere Message Broker Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for data integration Strategic aim of the CIO and IT operations for the next financial year:Aim is to become a lean and business focused IT organisation which sits between the demand side (JLR business) and supply side (strategic partners) and is responsible for: managing IT strategy and innovation; managing IT demand and change; and delivering a best-in-class IT service. Key is supporting JLR's growth agenda through a number of business transformation programmes: Turbo – core process transformation of OEM business enabled by SAPeSMART – efficient, consistent NSC (National Sales Company) operations enabled by SAPBollywood – real-time management informationiPLM – product creation transformationCumulus – delivery the desktop any time, any place, any whereSingle View CRM – in touch with our customersAmsterdam – delivering a new level of IT service qualityConnected Car – delivering a connected customer experience to Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles Technologies considered by the leader to offer their organisation potential:Apple iPhone/iPadCisco Ironport / Nexus / CatalystCisco TeleprescenceDassault Systemes Enovia / Catia / SimulaGE Fanuc Proficy CIMPLICITYGoogle AppsIBM Mashup EngineIBM WebSphere Message BrokerSAP ERP / CRM / SRMSAP Business ObjectsTeradataVMWare vSphere Future transformation and technology vision for the organisation: Virtual Desktop InfrastructureBring Your Own DevicePrivate / Public cloud adoptionPrivate Mobile App store (iOS)Enterprise Social NetworkingDesktop transformationSocial IntranetUnified Comms Read the CIO stories: Jaguar Land Rover improves vehicle design with networked data storage Jaguar Land Rover hit the Google Apps road