Let’s Drink to That: $100M Seals the Deal Between HP and Coca-Cola
Leo Apotheker inherited a controversy-plagued organization. But, the former SAP CEO is serious in implementing strategies to relinquish obstacles and reboot HP, getting involved with partnerships that would translate to more revenue. Today, Hewlett Packard Mexico announced the closure of the $100 million deal with bottler giant, Coca-Cola (in Mexico). The technology outsourcing services run for a 5-year period, while HP continues to serve other Latin American countries including Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and Colombia.
Coca-Cola FEMSA Chief Information Officer Hector Calva expresses confidence with the agreement they signed with HP, saying, “After experiencing sustained growth across Latin America, these additional efforts to centralize and standardize will give us the support we need to find new opportunities to put beverages in the hands of the Latin American people. HP knows our business and industry well. With the team’s extensive experience in data center consolidation, we will have the technology foundation and support critical for our growth plans and future success.”
The clause also takes account of global and regional telecommunications carrier management services. This is in addition to current network management services for the company’s LAN/WAN environment. HP will move to dedicated support, but will maintain enterprise application hosting services for Coca-Cola FEMSA’s SAP podium.
Aside from HP Agility Alliance partners that include SAP, KMPG, Symantec and Microsoft will provide supplementary tools, technologies and resources to HP in support of Coca-Cola FEMSA. HP and Coca-Cola will merge 348 locations to just one data center in Mexico and migrate business-critical SAP applications and server monitoring and management.
HP, with its fairly new leadership has been trying to erase scandals of the past. The company recently joined the vast cloud space and will commence selling cloud computing services. HP also finalized a contract with Vertica and gained altitude in big data. Today, customers will be faced with a tough movement that was brought by Oracle, after closing down software development business for Itanium-based service– where most HP servers are highly dependent.
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