Build & Operate

Create your dataspace, drive app development, enable trusted AI, and govern secure collaboration

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T-Systems is your official Catena-X Sandbox Provider

Looking to innovate in the automotive industry? T-Systems is now an official Catena-X Sandbox Provider! Test and validate your solutions in a certified, secure environment and experience cutting-edge data exchange. With our Data Intelligence Hub Dataspace Automotive, you gain access to a dataspace provided by trusted partner in the Catena-X ecosystem, helping you to shape the future of mobility.

Our references

TÜV Süd & T-Systems:
Building trust in Catena-X with Battery Data
RoX:
Building a digital ecosystem for AI-based robotics
T-Systems and NTT Communications partnership:
Connecting dataspaces globally with a test environment for dataspaces in Japan
Enhancing innovation and collaboration:
Knorr-Bremse's journey with T-Systems

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Your business, your choice: Find the perfect Build & Operate solution!

Essential

Focus on data exchange, governance and building data chains

Easy & quick automated setup

Own dataspace with exclusive user group

Orchestrate data exchange in a test environment

Extra participant validation through T-Systems Digital.ID

Premium

Everything in Essential plus

Capability of development new business applications

Test applications in a real dataspace condition

Operate minimale viable products with multiple participants

Enterprise

Everything in Premium plus

Tailor-made solution based on your specific requirements

Optimized performance through a customized setup

Enhanced security with enterprise grade features

Build your applications in just 3 days with our managed dataspace

Build & Operate is designed to eliminate technical barriers and provide a fast, intuitive way to develop and scale your applications within trusted, data-driven ecosystems. Our fully managed environment allows you to focus on use cases and innovation—without the complexity of dataspace infrastructure. Spin up your own dataspace to interact, govern, and collaborate securely with ecosystem partners. Develop AI-powered services, build data chains, and enforce custom governance policies—all while retaining full control over your data. Whether you're an app developer, software engineer, dataspace operator, or innovation lead, Build & Operate gives you everything you need to move from idea to application—fast, secure, and future-proof.

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Build & Operate, from developers to developers

Our solution empowers your business to:

Accelerate your application development by building directly on trusted dataspace infrastructure. Cut development time, reduce complexity and ensure interoperability with evolving marketplace standards
Share and access data with full sovereignty and trust. Control how sensitive data is exchanged, used and governed across internal teams and external partners–perfect for secure AI training or collaborative supply chains
Ensure authenticity, traceability and compliance with built-in identity and credentialing tools that verify every asset, participant and data transaction
Leverage a growing ecosystem of 1,000+ ready-to-use applications to enrich your solutions, unlock faster time-to-market and scale use cases across industries

Focus on your use cases, we manage the dataspace infrastructure

User-friendly interface with preconfigured operator tools

Quickly start with developing new applications

Trustful ecosystem compliant to Gaia-X & IDSA

Fast track to the world of dataspaces

Experience full data sovereignty

Cloud agnostic

Integrate and manage your applications easily with the included toolkit

Development environment with dataspace capabilities as a managed service

Managed infrastructure

Rely on T-Systems as a trusted pioneer in IDSA and Gaia-X-compliant dataspace technologies. Our cloud-agnostic platform lets you build and scale effortlessly—while we handle the complexity in the background.

Always aligned with the latest standards

Build & Operate is continuously updated to reflect evolving requirements. Stay fully compliant and future-ready without manual effort or vendor lock-in.

Preconfigured operation toolkit

Our operation toolkit provides all the tools that are necessary to get started with your own dataspace, like Kubeapps or Grafana. With a user-friendly UI the dataspace can be managed easily and enables a jump start in the developing of applications.

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Benefits of Build & Operate

Faster time-to-value
Launch and iterate applications quickly with built-in templates, dev tools, and preconfigured infrastructure—cutting down lead times from weeks to days
Governance made simple
Easily define and enforce data access, usage policies, and participant roles—no custom coding or heavy integration work required
Built-in trust & compliance
Establish a secure foundation for collaboration with our additional trust anchor Digital.ID, which validates and verifies legal entities within your dataspace
Join a growing ecosystem
Seamlessly connect with other apps, partners, and services already in the ecosystem—boosting interoperability and reducing onboarding friction
Cloud freedom & future-proofing
Run on your infrastructure of choice—public cloud, sovereign cloud, or hybrid—while staying up to date with evolving dataspace frameworks
Operational insights at your fingertips
Integrated monitoring and dashboards provide real-time visibility into system health, participant activity, and application performance

Faster time-to-value

Launch and iterate applications quickly with built-in templates, dev tools, and preconfigured infrastructure—cutting down lead times from weeks to days

Governance made simple

Easily define and enforce data access, usage policies, and participant roles—no custom coding or heavy integration work required

Built-in trust & compliance

Establish a secure foundation for collaboration with our additional trust anchor Digital.ID, which validates and verifies legal entities within your dataspace

Join a growing ecosystem

Seamlessly connect with other apps, partners, and services already in the ecosystem—boosting interoperability and reducing onboarding friction

Cloud freedom & future-proofing

Run on your infrastructure of choice—public cloud, sovereign cloud, or hybrid—while staying up to date with evolving dataspace frameworks

Operational insights at your fingertips

Integrated monitoring and dashboards provide real-time visibility into system health, participant activity, and application performance

Build & Operate use cases

Development & upgrade of applications

Carbon footprint documentation

Traceability

Sovereign data exchange beyond departments and company borders

Application testing

Testimonials

TÜV SÜD is a leading global provider of safety and sustainability solutions, offering comprehensive testing, inspection, certification and consulting services to add value and inspire confidence across all industries. T-Systems provided the Build & Operate environment (Catena-X Sandbox) that enables TÜV SÜD to research and develop innovative solutions for more value and more trust in battery passports from the Catena-X network. This partnership helped TÜV SÜD to identify concrete approaches and business value for its ecosystem partners.
Thomas Christl
Innovation Program Lead - Data Management & Business Models, TÜV SÜD Auto Service GmbH
On the EU initiative ERJU, we set up a one-stop shop application in a dataspace environment, which allows all participants within the work package to use the out-of-the-box solution seamlessly. T-Systems took care of all the technological details for the dataspace environment, ensuring a smooth onboarding process so we could focus on our end-to-end story and business case. I think this is a perfect example of developing an application in a dataspace.
Dr. Constantin Scheuermann
Product Manager, Knorr-Bremse
T-Systems is a global leader in trusted dataspaces, offering cutting-edge solutions like IDSA-certified connectors and Gaia-X trust frameworks. Their Build & Operate testbed enables real-world testing and innovation. Together, we are advancing globally connected dataspaces, combining T-Systems’ digital infrastructure expertise with our local market knowledge. This partnership provides Japanese organizations with a leading testbed environment, unlocking opportunities for innovation and secure cross-border data sharing between Japan and Europe. This collaboration fosters international trust, interoperability, and innovation in the digital economy.
Akira Sakaino
Director, Evangelist, Smart World Business, NTT Communications
The T-Systems Sandbox environment has been invaluable for exploring use cases and requirements for the European Rail Data Space. It enabled us to deploy connectors and exchange data pragmatically which also provided a concrete demonstration how the Rail Data Space works for companies outside the Europe’s Rail research project—paving the way for the expansion of the new secure and trustful data ecosystem for Rail.
Meike van't Hoen
Director Product Management Digital Products & Services, Knorr-Bremse

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