The innovative tools enable faster rollouts of new integrated business processes by streamlining dealer system providers (DSPs) integration development and deployment efforts through automation and simplification, the company said.

Oxlo’s patent pending Self Service Integration guides DSPs through a successful integration development. It consolidates all necessary content including a guided step-by-step development process, specifications, sample use cases and end-to-end test cases with real-time automated feedback and error code identification.

The Self Service Deployment tool automates the process of initiating and configuring a dealer business system to a new business process through the Oxlo Dealer Communications Hub. Streamlining this process simplifies the task for DSPs and increases the pace for automakers rolling out new integrated business processes.

Automaker success is becoming increasingly dependant on tighter collaboration with the dealer channel, said Thilo Koslowski, vice president of research for Oxlo. Automakers can leverage IT technologies to achieve tighter collaboration with their retail partners, and those companies who get there first will enjoy a competitive advantage.

The Oxlo Partner Portal is a centralized web portal that provides customers and partners with private access to view and manage their Oxlo integration services. The Oxlo Portal enables access to the Self Service Integration and Self Service Deployment tools, as well as reports that provide partners with metrics for all associated transactions passing through the Oxlo hub.