Hewlett-Packard (HP) Mexico has been awarded a five-year technology outsourcing services contract by Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest public bottler of Coca Cola products in the world.

Under the agreement, HP will build and manage a converged infrastructure to support Coca-Cola FEMS’s growth in Latin America.

In addition, HP and Coca-Cola FEMSA will consolidate 348 locations to a single data centre in Mexico and migrate business-critical SAP applications and server monitoring and management to HP Best Shore locations in Brazil and Argentina.

HP Security Services will be provided from HP Best Shore global delivery centres in Costa Rica.

HP will also continue to manage Coca-Cola FEMSA’s technology infrastructure supporting its Latin American operations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela, said HP.

Further, HP will continue to provide data center services and storage services to manage and support Coca-Cola FEMSA’s data centre environment.

The agreement also includes international and regional telecommunications Carrier Management Services in addition to Network Management Services for the company’s LAN/WAN environment, said the company.

HP also provides Enterprise Application Hosting Services for Coca-Cola FEMSA’s SAP platform and will move to dedicated support.

HP Agility Alliance partners, including SAP and Microsoft, will provide additional tools, technologies and resources to HP in support of Coca-Cola FEMSA.

HP Mexico managing director Octavio Marquez said in a region such as Latin America with many opportunities for growth, companies that develop an efficient technology infrastructure and business procedures to support an "Instant-On" enterprise will be better able to take advantage of those opportunities.

"Our industry knowledge and decade-long relationship with Coca-Cola FEMSA, as well as our ability to scale when and where the client grows, will continue to help the company achieve its goals," Marquez said.

HP said that the present agreement adds more than $100m to its existing Coca-Cola FEMSA relationship, which began in 2000.