Flex & T-Systems: Scaling transparency in Catena-X
Dataspace as a Service
Create your dataspace, drive app development, enable trusted AI, and govern secure collaboration
Trusted by valuable brands
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.
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Your business, your choice: Find the perfect Dataspace as a Service 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
Dataspace as a Service 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, Dataspace as a Service gives you everything you need to move from idea to application—fast, secure, and future-proof.
Dataspace as a Service, 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
Dataspace as a Service 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.
Benefits of Dataspace as a Service
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
Dataspace as a Service 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."
Innovation Program Lead - Data Management & Business Models, TÜV SÜD Auto Service GmbH
Ready to build and operate your own dataspace?
We would be happy to provide you with the right experts and to answer your questions about planning, implementation, and maintenance for your digitalization plans. Get in touch!