Case Study: Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company achieves centralized management across 13 African countries with Nutanix

Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company trusts Nutanix to centrally manage 13 countries in Africa

Equatorial Coca‑Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC), a leading Coca‑Cola bottler operating across 13 countries in North and West Africa, faced the challenge of rolling out a new Epicor ERP across widely diverse locations with uneven local infrastructure and limited onsite IT expertise. The company needed a hardware‑agnostic, easy‑to‑manage platform that could be centrally controlled and supported throughout the region.

ECCBC implemented Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure with Prism management, Veeam backup integration and local support from partner SCC, deploying pre‑configured appliances across sites and centralizing management from its Barcelona data center. The result: centralized IT control across 13 countries, rapid three‑month completion of the final six deployments, modular workload balancing between territories (e.g., Ghana supported by Liberia and Sierra Leone), improved resilience and energy savings, and plans to adopt Nutanix AHV and explore DBaaS.

Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company

Cristian Michelangeli

Head of IT Operations