Case Study: Pernod Ricard achieves a modern, scalable Spirit/1 platform with Rocket Software

Pernod Ricard - Customer Case Study

Pernod Ricard, the global wine and spirits group behind brands like Chivas, Absolut, and Martell, was relying on aging server-based and mainframe-style systems to manage production and spirits lifecycle data. This created a growing challenge around sustainability, agility, and attracting new IT talent, especially as the company wanted a single web- and mobile-based platform for managing its brands. Pernod Ricard turned to Rocket Software and its Uniface low-code application development tools to modernize its mission-critical Spirit/1 application.

Rocket Software helped Pernod Ricard rebuild and streamline Spirit/1 into a scalable web- and mobile-based platform, cutting the application’s complexity from 4,000 to 2,200 components and reducing the required code by 60%. The new system launched within the three-year target, added 180 users, and delivered measurable efficiency gains, including two days saved per month for Cognac QA inspectors and a jump in daily barrel processing from 7,000–8,000 to 12,000–14,000.

Pernod Ricard

Jean-Francois Bernard

IT Vice President