Onboard your company
Cofinity-X is your entry point to Catena-X. Our experts support you every step of the way, ensuring a smooth and efficient onboarding process.
After a quick registration on our website, you will receive an email invitation to set your account password and provide additional company information. Once your information has been validated, we issue your Business Partner Number (BPN), which serves as your digital identity within Catena-X. You will be notified by mail once your onboarding is complete.
What happens next?
Once you complete the registration, you are a verified Catena-X dataspace participant. The next steps will help you activate your use cases, connect your systems, and exchange data with your business partners.
Identify your
use case
The Catena-X data ecosystem enables companies to exchange any kind of data based on shared standards and rules. Identify the data exchange use case that fits your business needs.
Choose your
solution
Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) connector
The EDC connector is your technical access point to Catena-X, enabling you to publish, discover and manage data offerings. Learn more.
You’ll find both apps and services on the Cofinity-X Marketplace. To exchange data in Catena-X, you need an EDC connector and, depending on your business needs, a use case application. Many Marketplace solutions already combine both in a single offering. Explore our provider overview to find the solution that best fits your needs.
Exchange
data
You can now start exchanging data with your business partners according to your selected use case. Invite your business partners to join the Catena-X ecosystem. Gradually scale your approach across additional suppliers, customers, production sites and discover additional use cases.
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In Volkswagen Group’s New Auto Strategy, digitalization plays a central role in making manufacturing more efficient and sustainable, improving our customer experience and gearing up our business model for the future. The prerequisite for this is connecting manufacturers, suppliers and partners in a secure data ecosystem. Catena-X is the framework for such a collaborative, open platform along the entire value chain. With our joint venture, Cofinity-X, we are now implementing this vision: via an open marketplace with applications and services that enable secure and standardized data exchange between all players. Cofinity-X customers can access applications and services to realize strategic use cases such as CO2 and ESG monitoring, component traceability and circular economy. We especially want to make it easier for small and medium-sized companies to participate in this data ecosystem on an equal footing. This is how we are taking the digitalization of the automotive industry to the next level.
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Deutsche Telekom is proud to be a Catena-X technology partner from the very beginning. With the founding of the first Catena-X operating company, we are now a big step closer to our common goal: to span a cloud-based data network for a digitalized European automotive industry. A network governed by data sovereignty, full GDPR compliance and highest security standards.
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The joint venture helps us to achieve sustainability and efficiency goals in the automotive industry faster and more efficiently. This is only possible in a strong team at eye level between the automotive industry, suppliers and equipment manufacturers. Siemens provides Catena-X applications that can be used by all participants in the automotive value chain, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Together with sustainability, digitalization is driving the transformation of today’s automotive industry. This transformation can only be successful with a trustworthy and secure data exchange along the entire value chain. This requires top standards and, therefore, a common effort between strong partners. As one of the founding members of Cofinity-X, Schaeffler is proud to be contributing to this essential goal.
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Catena-X aims to provide greater resiliency and transparency to the automotive value chain, improving its quality and efficiency for all companies involved. This open and collaborative data ecosystem perfectly reflects SAP’s vision to enable every organization’s participation in a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises. It also gives the companies leveraging the Catena-X automotive network access to a broad portfolio of SAP solutions, from enabling the traceability of products across multiple parties in the supply chain to tracking and calculating Scope 3 emissions. Cofinity-X marks another important milestone in this pioneering project, and one to which we are excited to contribute.
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At Mercedes-Benz, we’re convinced that transparency, efficiency and data sovereignty are the key levers for sustainable and data-driven value chains. Through the new Cofinity-X joint venture, we are bringing to life the Catena-X vision of an open ecosystem for secure and standardized data exchange along the entire value chain. The first solutions are almost ready and, thanks to Cofinity-X, every company in the automotive sector can shortly benefit from services and offers that use the results of Catena-X.
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As the leading chemical supplier to the automotive industry, we see tremendous opportunities in operating an ecosystem based on standardized digital services and harmonized data models. This will strengthen supply chain resilience, improve transparency and accelerate the transformation towards circularity and net-zero carbon footprints across many material categories.
The challenges that industries across the globe are facing today can only be solved with a joint and holistic approach to enhance our entire value chains: making them more traceable, more sustainable, more resilient. Catena-X and Cofinity-X have the potential to be a game changer in this endeavor.
The collaboration among OEMs, suppliers and partners is crucial to improve the much-needed transparency along the entire value chain. While Catena-X is pioneering the definition of common standards in key areas such as circular economy, carbon footprint tracking and parts traceability in the automotive industry, we see the new joint venture (Cofinity-X) as a further driver of the digital transformation in the industry and Henkel is highly committed to be a part of it.
Register
now
After a quick registration on our website, you will receive an email invitation to set your account password and provide additional company information. Once your information has been validated, we issue your Business Partner Number (BPN), which serves as your digital identity within Catena-X. You will be notified by mail once your onboarding is complete.
Frequently asked questions
Catena-X currently focuses on the automotive industry and related sectors, including chemicals, electronics, and metals. Any company that meets the terms and conditions is welcome to join.
No, the most important design principle of Catena-X is data sovereignty. You only share selected data with selected partners under conditions you agreed to.
The data owner alone has the control over his data. Catena-X works decentralized. The data stays with its owner. No central authority has access to, controls, or even views the data, which is being exchanged.
No. The easiest way to get started is through a business application from the Cofinity-X Marketplace. You don't need to deploy or operate your own technical components.
Only companies with advanced dataspace expertise and specific integration needs typically choose to run their own connector.
Two internal roles are critical to a smooth onboarding process:
- Legal - to ensure legal compliance of agreements and contracts
- IT administrators - to set up technical infrastructure, including user accounts and security measures
Onboarding process typically takes 1-2 workings days. The duration can vary. To speed up the process, it’s important to involve all relevant internal stakeholders, especially your legal experts and IT administrators.
Yes. Companies with advanced data space expertise can build and operate their own EDC connector using the Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) open-source framework. However, for most organisations, using an application from the Cofinity-X Marketplace is the fastest and easiest way to get started.