Cadbury Schweepes

SOA Helps Cadbury Schweppes
Reduce Risk and Increase
Flexibility
Capgemini helped Cadbury Schweppes set up a
global IT architecture function and establish the
foundations for a Service-Oriented IT Architecture
“Cadbury Schweppes needs
a modern, standards-based IT
architecture to enable agile,
heterogeneous technology
solutions that the business
requires, on-time and at the
right price.”
Robert Peterson,
Senior VP - Global IT Solutions,
Cadbury Schweppes plc
The Situation
Cadbury Schweppes, based in the UK, is
the world’s largest confectionery company
and has a strong regional presence in
beverages in North America and Australia.
By the late-1990s, Cadbury Schweppes
was maintaining 25 different SAP systems.
Maintenance was expensive and
integration was difficult. Around 2000, the
company established a program to move
to three regional SAP systems worldwide
and standardize processes around those
systems. However, the rollout of this
solution proved to be difficult and risky.
By the summer of 2004, the company
needed an alternative that would be more
flexible and involve less risk.
The Solution
Cadbury Schweppes selected Capgemini
to help it deploy an approach based on
the latter’s Integrated Architecture
Framework (IAF) and Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA). As part of the
program, the company defined and
created its own Component Based
Architecture (CBA), which it
considers to be
synonymous with SOA. Solutions can be
designed and developed as components or
services. New systems can be deployed in
a much more gradual way than they were
before. Cadbury Schweppes is committed
to maximizing its use of packaged
application solutions from vendors like
SAP and Oracle/Siebel deployed as
components. This new approach to
solution delivery was adopted by Cadbury
Schweppes through its own architecture
office, which was set up with the help of
Capgemini.
The Result
By taking an SOA approach, Cadbury
Schweppes reduced... [continues]

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