The car manufacturer’s division manager of information systems, James Scott, told that the 25 car dealers currently using the company’s TUNE software will be moved to the Cloud infrastructure between March and July this year in an effort to migrate as quickly as possible. The move will ultimately be open to all national dealers, which can opt in to the Cloud service.

“Any future dealers that sign up to the TUNE application will also obviously move into the Cloud system,” he said.

“There’s no desire to force a dealer management system onto our dealers. They’ll pick a dealer management system they feel is best for their business.”

The TUNE software, which has been in use by some Toyota-owned dealers since early last year, provides management options for service booking, financials, sales and customer data. Data is currently hold on a mix of outsourced Fujitsu data centres and on-premise equipment.

Under the migration, Toyota will manage migration of remaining on-premises equipment and data to the Cloud infrastructure, to be hosted by Fujitsu. This includes those on-premises servers installed at selected dealerships when the TUNE system was first implemented last year.