CARSOME Group is consolidating its cloud infrastructure by shifting to Google Cloud as its preferred provider. This multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud and Searce aims to fuel CARSOME’s expansion and enhance its car transaction and ownership experience through Google Cloud’s services in infrastructure, cybersecurity, data analytics, and generative AI.
Kjetil Rohde Jakobsen, Group Chief Technology Officer, CARSOME Group, said: “Shifting from a multicloud environment to Google Cloud not only helps us realize cost savings due to its infrastructure’s better price-performance; it also allows us to access secure-by-design, full stack capabilities across data analytics and AI. This will enable our teams to deliver more dynamic and differentiated solutions and experiences for CARSOME customers and partners across the region, from car listings and discovery, to financing and transacting, to after-sales support.”
CARSOME seeks to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and deliver more dynamic solutions for customers and partners. The transition involves migrating applications and databases to Google Cloud’s workload-optimized infrastructure with Searce’s technical expertise.
This move will also provide CARSOME with access to granular insights using BigQuery, Looker, and Vertex AI, enhancing its existing AI applications like a pricing engine, photo analysis system, and gen AI-powered contact center.
The collaboration is expected to drive innovation, improve business decision-making, and personalize customer engagement.CARSOME, Google Cloud, and Searce highlight the benefits of this partnership in advancing CARSOME’s innovation roadmap and delivering seamless car transaction and ownership experiences.
Serene Sia, Country Director, Malaysia and Singapore, Google Cloud, said: “By running its business on fully managed Google Cloud infrastructure that scales reliably to handle the increasing performance needs of any application, CARSOME can expand its operations with confidence, from increasing its penetration in existing markets, to expanding its inventory of pre-owned vehicles, to streamlining the movement of vehicles between inspection centers, refurbishment facilities, and customers.”
About CARSOME
CARSOME is Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-commerce platform. With operations across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore, CARSOME aims to digitize the region’s used car industry by reshaping and elevating the car transaction and ownership experience.
CARSOME Academy, an accredited automotive training institution, further enhances the ecosystem by equipping future talent with industry-relevant skills, ensuring a steady pipeline of qualified professionals in the automotive sector.
For more information, please visit www.carsome.com.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.
About Searce
Searce is an AI-powered, engineering-led modern tech consultancy that empowers clients to “futurify” by delivering real business outcomes. Over the last 20 years, Searce has been a trusted technology partner for more than 3,000 clients across retail; travel, transport and logistics (TTL); financial services; healthcare; and other industries.
(Adapted from press release)
