Autotrader extends contract with Embridge Consulting to enable continuous transformation

ArticleMarch 20262 min

The UK’s largest online automotive marketplace, Autotrader, has extended its contract with technology-enabled business transformation specialists, Embridge Consulting, to leverage its Business Technology as a Service (BTaaS) - marking a significant strategic shift towards an enterprise-wide integration and transformation model that will evolve with its business needs.

Having worked with Embridge Consulting for almost four years, Autotrader initially engaged the consultancy as a Managed Services partner to maximise the value of its Unit4 ERP platform. Over time, the relationship has evolved into a trusted, long-term partnership, with Autotrader becoming an early adopter of LEO - the consultancy’s own fully managed integration service, designed to remove the burden of integration ownership while improving reliability, resilience and speed at which change can be delivered. LEO enables seamless communication between cloud and on-premise applications, providing a more stable and scalable integration foundation as Autotrader’s platform landscape continues to evolve.

Having now committed to a new three-year agreement under BTaaS – the consultancy’s flexible, subscription-based framework under which Autotrader will consume LEO, managed services, advisory support and future capabilities – the automotive marketplace will benefit from reduced operational risk, improved integration maturity, faster delivery of change and a more resilient, modernised platform landscape.

By outsourcing integration and platform complexity, Autotrader will also be better positioned to improve agility, lower technical overhead and make more effective use of its internal technical capability.

Autotrader has been a brilliant business to work with over the past four years and their trust in us has continued to grow. What started as managed services has evolved into a shared, long-term roadmap for platform modernisation and continuous change. Through BTaaS, we’re not just supporting technology, we’re co-creating an operating model that allows Autotrader to evolve, adapt and innovate with confidence. We’re incredibly proud to be trusted as a strategic partner in that journey and look forward to continuing to work closely with John and the wider technical team.

Faye O’Connell Chief Product Officer of Embridge Consulting

Embridge make it easy for us. From managed services through to cloud migration, they’ve consistently acted as a true partner rather than a transactional supplier. By extending our relationship under BTaaS, we’re deliberately choosing to outsource integration and platform complexity so our teams can focus on strategic value. It gives us a resilient foundation, and the flexibility required to evolve with our business needs.

John Chan Head of Finance Systems and Business Insight for Autotrader

Underpinned by an emotionally intelligent and ‘elastic’ approach to change designed to help business transformation adapt, stick and scale, Embridge Consulting operates to high industry standards, affirmed by its accreditations in ISO 9001, 27001 and 14001.

For more information, contact Embridge Consulting today, or visit Autotrader.