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Case StudyAutoScout24 Webservices

Berlin | 05.10.2010 | Martin Ströbele

Martin Ströbele

Team Leader Business Integration

Team Leader within Product Management department

Product Owner within Scrum Team „Business Integration“

Speaker

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AutoScout24 Company Portrait

Target Groups for Webservices

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Agenda



13 million users in Germany a year, 1.8 million

vehicles on offer, more than 300 million virtual car

inspections – AutoScout24 is Europe-wide the

largest online car marketplace.

Involved in the markets in 18 countries, and with

37,000 member dealers, AutoScout24 is present in

all the main markets in Europe.

AutoScout24 – EVERYTHING„S CAR HERE.*

*Translation, original claim reads: “HIER IST ALLES AUTO.”

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Since 1998, the best-known online car market in

Germany offers private customers, car dealers

and other partners in the automotive, finance

and insurance industries a comprehensive

platform for trading cars on the Internet.

On AutoScout24, users find both car offers as

well as all necessary information about cars in

the AutoScout24 magazine and on the

information platform AutoWissen24.

AutoScout24 – EVERYTHING„S CAR HERE.*

*Translation, original claim reads: “HIER IST ALLES AUTO.”


AutoScout24 Facts and Figures

Head Office Munich

Founding Year 1998, then as MasterCar AG

Corporate Structure

wholly-owned subsidiary of Scout24 Holding GmbH (part of Deutsche Telekom AG since 2004)


AutoScout24 Corporate Structure

Parent Company

Holding

VerticalsBelgium

France

Italy

Netherlands

Spain

Russia


AutoScout24 Market Presence

Involved in the markets in 18

countries, AutoScout24 is

present in all the main

markets in Europe:

Germany, France, Italy,

Spain, the Netherlands,

Belgium, Austria, Switzerland,

Luxembourg, Bulgaria, CZ.

Republic, Croatia, Poland,

Romania, Sweden, Turkey,

Ukraine, Russia


AutoScout24 Portal Cooperations in Germany

IT-Lösungen



Target Groupsfor Webservices

2nd party

External development partners

Marketing coops

There are 3 types of cooperation partners

3rd party: Registered partnerafter acceptance of terms / conditions

2nd party: Individual contractwith partner

1st party: AS24 peripheral tools

3 layers of cooperation


1st party

Mobile Apps

Car Portal CMS

3rd party

Developers

Automotive Dealers and their suppliers

Education

Webservice Connections


Access points

AS24

API

• client administration, registration

• terms / conditions

• SDK, Docu

• 1st level Support

3rd party

2nd party

1st party

• individual access profiles

• freq cap per client

• global access limit

• logging


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Requirements


Administer partner accounts:

Define access profiles

Enable Product Manager to setup accounts

Access profiles on 3 layers:

Services

Methods

Fields

Define Service Level per partner

Freqency quoata (x requests per s / min / h / d)

Log service usage, enable billing

Partners Services

Partner 1

Partner 2

Partner 3

Partner 4

Solution


AD

Partners

Endpoints

AS24 webservices

„Policies:“

Access profiles

Service levels

Questions?


www.autoscout24.com

Thanks for your attention!

Fon: +49 89 450990-717Email: [email protected]: www.autoscout24.com

contact:AutoScout24 GmbHRosenheimer Str. 143 b81671 München

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