Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has signed a multiyear agreement with IBM to accelerate its transformation to an open hybrid cloud environment. The move is designed to reduce its operational expenses, increase IT resiliency and leverage analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) 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.

As part of the agreement, IBM Services will help CCEP transform 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.

IBM and CCEP began their journey to the Cloud in 2018, when IBM successfully moved one third of CCEP's enterprise workloads from a dedicated US data centre to the IBM Cloud in Europe.