Published on the 19/01/2011 | Written by Newsdesk
Australasian beverage supplier Frucor sees benefit in moving ERP infrastructure to the cloud…
The move is a first for a SAP client on Fujitsu’s newly created Infrastructure as a Service cloud platform.
The multi-million dollar contract will migrate Frucor’s SAP and business intelligence systems to Fujitsu’s cloud data centres in Sydney from April.
Frucor’s seasonal operation will be supported with a flexible ‘on-demand’ IT infrastructure.
“Ours is a seasonal business with a summer peak for our products. Frucor will now have an IT model which is able to respond to our business activities and market conditions as and when required. Plus we’ve had solid growth in recent years. Accurate IT capacity planning under a traditional, three-years-in-advance purchasing model is impossible,” said Paul Miller, Frucor’s group IS manager for Australia and New Zealand.
Miller said that Fujitsu’s “global but local” strength was another key factor in awarding the contract: “Fujitsu has the most mature cloud solution in the region. And it has great people on the ground across its data centres and SAP Support.”
Cameron McNaught, Executive General Manager Solutions for Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, said: “The new contract with Frucor is significant proof that cloud services, delivered locally to meet the needs of our local market, have become a real alternative to traditional IT consumption models. With Fujitsu taking responsibility for Frucor’s infrastructure needs, its internal IT resources can focus on core, customer service delivery.”
The deal will bolster Fujitsu’s confidence in the approach it has taken in making a significant investment in a cloud platform in Australia over the past 18 months.
Miller commented that the green features of Fujitsu’s data centres were a “huge positive in the decision-making process. We like what Fujitsu is doing with smart cooling and power at its data centres. Its operations are far more efficient per device than we could possibly provide in-house or gain from our existing hosted service.”
Frucor Beverages is part of Japanese Suntory, and this deal is the first step in Suntory’s strategy to move its global infrastructure into the cloud. Miller acknowledged that the strong existing global relationship between Fujitsu and Suntory was an influence on the selection of the Fujitsu cloud solution but “it had to make specific commercial sense for us because Frucor is responsible for the investment.”
Frucor’s brands include V and Spring Valley, and it is the exclusive bottler of Pepsi products in New Zealand.
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