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The article explores how T‑Systems’ Motion Data leverages anonymized mobile network information to reveal real‑world fan behavior in the 2024/25 Bundesliga season. It highlights how supporters travel to home and away matches, the demographic composition of stadium audiences, and which clubs attract the largest crowds—including surprising cross‑border dynamics. By transforming assumptions into measurable insights, Motion Data enables clubs, cities, and event organizers to improve mobility planning, enhance stadium operations, and design more targeted fan engagement strategies.

Flex partnered with T-Systems to migrate ECU data exchange to Catena-X, enabling secure, multiregional, real-time validation across global production sites. Using T-Systems’ Connect & Integrate solution, Flex achieved end-to-end integration, API and Cofinity-X interface testing, and a fully validated production setup. This scalable dataspace foundation now supports future use cases including Product Carbon Footprint, Certificate Management, Battery Pass, and global traceability, while maintaining full data sovereignty.

Sovereign connectivity in dataspaces requires automating network access to ensure security, compliance, and operational scale. In the Data Intelligence Hub, we replace manual firewall updates with a declarative, Kubernetes-native model using Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Customers define their allowed IP ranges through a self-service portal, which generates an IpAccessPolicy object representing the desired state. A controller then reconciles this state with the underlying infrastructure, automatically updating Kubernetes Ingress configurations and preventing drift. This architecture ensures auditability, validates inputs before enforcement, and keeps network access aligned with the principles of data sovereignty across multi-tenant environments.

Flex leverages Catena-X to build a reusable, standards-based automotive data ecosystem. By starting small and scaling through economies of scope, Flex delivers multiregional data solutions for ECU management, certificate compliance, and supply-chain traceability, enabling sovereign data sharing, faster innovation, and cost-efficient reuse across multiple OEMs and use cases.

At CES 2026, industry leaders demonstrated how data readiness, digital twins, and dataspace ecosystems are turning Industrial and Physical AI from experimentation into production. Through PwC’s West Hall panel, an invitation-only C-suite roundtable, open showfloor engagements, and Catena-X supplier onboarding, executives from automotive, mobility, and technology aligned on a shared message: AI success now depends on “truthful” data and governed cross-company sharing. With Web3-inspired dataspace technology already live in ecosystems like Catena-X, CES underscored a decisive shift—from product innovation to production ecosystems—where interoperable, sovereign data flows enable scalable digital twins, resilient supply chains, and measurable business outcomes.

Sovereign observability is now essential as organizations operate Kubernetes across fragmented multi-cloud environments. Traditional monitoring approaches fail when logs and metrics cannot leave their originating region due to compliance and data-residency constraints. This architecture solves the challenge by decoupling storage from querying: each cloud environment writes logs and metrics to its own sovereign object storage while a central observer cluster queries them on demand. Leveraging Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, and Promtail, the system provides global visibility, secure mTLS communication, isolated buckets, and a unified Grafana experience — all without violating sovereignty rules.

Im Dezember 2025 stärkte T-Systems die Präsenz von Catena-X und trusted dataspaces in Asien durch zwei zentrale Veranstaltungen: den Catena-X Supplier Onboarding Day in Tokio und den Global Data Spaces Roundtable in Peking. Von praxisnahem Supplier Onboarding bis hin zu großskaligen Automotive-Piloten in China standen regulatorische Anforderungen, Datensouveränität und sicherer unternehmensübergreifender Datenaustausch im Fokus. Gemeinsam mit Partnern wie Siemens, BMW Group, BASF und Flex zeigte T-Systems, wie dataspaces skalierbare und regelkonforme Zusammenarbeit entlang globaler automobilen Wertschöpfungsketten ermöglichen.

T-Systems hat Connect & Integrate „Developer Edition“ gestartet – eine schlanke Umgebung, die die Entwicklung von Catena-X-Anwendungen beschleunigt. Durch den Abbau von Hürden wie der Einrichtung von Konnektoren, der Einhaltung von Compliance-Vorgaben und der semantischen Validierung bietet die Plattform sofortige Konnektivität mit Catena-X-konformen APIs, geführte Workflows und integrierte Compliance-Tools. Entwickler erhalten direkten Zugang zu sicherem, standardisiertem Datenaustausch, ohne komplexe Infrastruktur verwalten zu müssen, und können sich so auf die Entwicklung innovativer Lösungen für zentrale Anwendungsfälle wie Rückverfolgbarkeit, CO₂-Fußabdruck sowie Nachfrage- und Kapazitätsmanagement konzentrieren. Als Innovationskatalysator positioniert, ermöglicht die „Developer Edition“ Start-ups, Integratoren und Unternehmen, schnell produktionsreife Anwendungen bereitzustellen und die Catena-X-Adoption entlang der automobilen Wertschöpfungskette voranzutreiben.

The Catena-X taskforce, together with CAAM, launched the “China Automotive Industry Trusted Data Space” pilot at IAA Munich, enabling secure, compliant, and scalable local data exchange for Chinese OEMs and suppliers, starting with Certificate Management. Early results show faster, traceable, and machine-readable certificate transactions, laying the foundation for future quality, sustainability, and PCF use cases.