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Europcar ensure consistant, available and secure services for every consumer.

Europcar uses Google Maps to enhance its global customer experience when renting a car. Everywhere a customer is or project to be, he can look for the nearest Europcar station. Europcar stations at different countries can use the common services.

About Europcar

A global leader in car rental, Europcar has over 2,500 car hire locations throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific in about 150 countries.

 

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The challenges

Delivering mobility solutions worldwide, Europcar has to deal with these following points : 
 
 Automatically locate stations nearby target adresses and travel facilities
 
Ensure the same service and features for each user worldwide
 
 Ensure that partners and stations from different countries can get their own customization for the same service
 
 Optimize the huge use of Google Maps services between the different web applications and sites.
challenges (4)

The main solution

PIN

Usage optimization

Google Maps products : APIs

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An overall policy

defined related to API Keys

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Regular supervision

of the Google services

A global architecture using Google Organization

for a better control usage of ressources

GCloud

The resulting benefits

Adjusted services to the world wide constraints.
 

High quality of service maintained, skillfully adjusting to the global context.

Europcar services usage increased by 50%