Solera’s AI-Powered ShopCentral Solution Named 2026 MOTOR Top 20 Winner, Advancing the Future of Intelligent Automotive Repair

Industry-leading cloud-based shop management solution helping repairers overcome growing complexity, increasing productivity and driving stronger business performance

WESTLAKE, Texas, Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Solera, a global leader in vehicle lifecycle management solutions, today announced that ShopCentral has been named a 2026 MOTOR Top 20 Awards winner, recognizing an innovation designed to help redefine how automotive repair businesses operate in an increasingly complex, connected and AI-enabled industry.

Across the world, automotive repair is undergoing profound change. Increasing vehicle complexity, technician shortages, rising costs and rapidly evolving customer expectations are putting pressure on traditional operating models. Solera availed the opportunity to solve these challenges differently, connecting data, technology and intelligence across the vehicle lifecycle and applying AI-driven innovation to make repair smarter, faster and more profitable. ShopCentral brings that vision directly into the repair shop, creating a connected operating platform that brings critical workflows, intelligence and business operations together in one environment.

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What distinguishes ShopCentral is not simply the number of workflows it brings together, but the intelligence, scalability, connectivity and AI-driven innovation behind them. Designed for enterprise organizations and independent repairers alike, the platform connects repair order management, digital inspections, customer communications, payments, reporting and business operations while integrating with capabilities such as Solera’s multi award-winning Identifix Direct-Hit®. Instead of forcing repairers to move between disconnected systems, manually transfer information or piece together data to understand what is happening in the business, ShopCentral creates a connected operating environment where information moves seamlessly across workflows, teams and locations. This gives technicians faster access to the information they need, gives managers greater visibility into performance, and enables businesses to identify opportunities, address issues, and make better decisions faster. Just as importantly, that connected data creates the foundation for AI to deliver increasingly powerful intelligence and automation throughout the repair process — helping shops improve productivity, strengthen customer engagement and operate more profitably.

For enterprise operators, the challenge is becoming increasingly complex. Growing vehicle complexity, technician shortages, rising labor and operating costs, margin pressure and increasing customer expectations are colliding with an operating model that, for many organizations, still relies on fragmented technology, inconsistent processes and limited visibility across locations. Managing dozens or hundreds of shops through separate systems makes it harder to standardize operations, understand performance, deploy technology consistently and identify where revenue or productivity is being lost. ShopCentral changes that equation.