Share Data, Retain Control: How Connected Ecosystems Unlock New Value
Growing regulatory requirements and interconnected value chains make cross-company data sharing an operational necessity. Only then can companies accurately determine a full Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) or comply with digital battery passport mandates.
However, this creates a fundamental trade-off. After all, this data often contains what companies protect most fiercely: proprietary insights regarding processes, costs, and customers. The key question is therefore not whether companies should share their data, but how they can do so without losing control over it.
The answer to this dilemma lies in industrial data ecosystems built on data sovereignty as a core design principle. Using the automotive ecosystem Catena-X as an example, this white paper highlights four practical use cases to demonstrate how connecting to ecosystems delivers tangible business value.
Key Questions in the White Paper:
- What does data sovereignty truly mean, and what core criteria must an industrial data ecosystem meet to guarantee it?
- What concrete business value do industrial data ecosystems deliver in the context of the Battery Passport and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)?
- How can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve a productive entry into data ecosystems in just a few weeks?
- What role do European cloud infrastructures such as STACKIT play in enabling trustworthy, GDPR-compliant data exchange?
- Why is building a sovereign data space the first and most decisive implementation step for the successful deployment of Industrial AI within an industrial AI ecosystem?