Coca-Cola European Partners continues cloud journey with IBM
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has signed a multi-year agreement with IBM as it looks to accelerate its transformation to an open hybrid cloud environment using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The move is designed to reduce its operational expenses, increase IT resiliency and leverage analytics and artificial intelligence in its daily operations to bring enhanced business insights and deliver greater service to its customers.
"A key priority for CCEP is to streamline its existing IT infrastructure to create a platform for standardised business processes, data and technology. This will create a springboard from which to leverage data analytics, IoT and AI technologies to provide new insights across its operations to help drive further efficiencies," a press release notes.
IBM Services will help CCEP move to a IBM hybrid cloud environment managed by IBM, including the use of IBM public cloud, and several large SAP workloads. IBM will also provide CCEP with a consolidated view and single point of control over its entire IT infrastructure.
The two companies began their journey to the cloud in 2018, when IBM moved one third of CCEP’s enterprise workloads from a dedicated US datacentre to the IBM Cloud in Europe.
Peter Brickley, Chief Information Officer of Coca-Cola European Partners, says: “Our successful collaboration with IBM over the last few years has given us the confidence to take the next step in our strategic cloud-first digital transformation.”
“The selection of IBM’s hybrid cloud architecture with Red Hat OpenShift gives us the flexibility to optimise across different public cloud platforms according to our future needs.”