{"id":13643,"date":"2022-05-20T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epidata.net\/?p=13643"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:41:24","slug":"how-mulesoft-guided-coca-cola-through-the-path-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backup.epidata.net\/en\/epidata-accompanies-innovation-discover-the-case-of-mulesoft-with-coca-cola\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidata Accompanies Innovation. Discover the case of Mulesoft with Coca-Cola"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

Discover how MuleSoft\u2019s management with Coca-Cola is a representation of Epidata’s mission. <\/span><\/i>(*)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Within the framework of our search for <\/span>innovative proposals<\/b><\/span>, and in a constant evolution that seeks to incorporate the <\/span>best technologies<\/b>, <\/span>Epidata <\/b><\/span>sees MuleSOft as a strategic partner to continue its mission of facilitating innovation for companies. In line with innovation, in addition to doing integrations, Epidata is part of a select team of partners that assist in developing projects that evolve this tool.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Context about MuleSoft and Coca-Cola<\/span><\/h2>\n

Coca-Cola<\/span><\/a> strived to deliver innovative customer-focused initiatives. Yet, as IT faced more digital projects, its disjointed architecture made accessing data difficult. They relied on legacy data centers that were challenging to access and connect. To streamline this process, they adopted a cloud-first strategy. IT has focused on self-service access, providing integration templates that its 250+ bottlers can use. This focus has enabled mobile applications for sales teams and a “Smart” Cooler leveraging real-time data. IT has improved the customer experience while cutting delivery timelines from months to weeks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

Coca-Cola<\/b><\/span>, selling <\/span>1.9 billion global servings a day<\/b><\/span>, wanted to stay at the forefront of innovation both for its retail customers and individual consumers. As demands from the business to roll out <\/span>new digital initiatives<\/b><\/span> continued to climb, IT found itself struggling to provide access to the necessary data for different lines of business to use for new projects. As more initiatives were planned, <\/span>IT realized their current architecture was rooted in disjointed data and handcuffed them<\/b><\/span>, causing project backlog to grow, pushing out development deadlines.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The team decided to close out their data centers and a<\/span><\/strong><\/span>dopt a cloud-first strategy<\/span><\/strong>, with the hope of introducing self-service and reusable assets to establish a more <\/span>future-state architecture<\/b>. They decided on MuleSoft to enable an <\/span>API-led approach<\/b><\/span>. This has allowed them to decouple their data sources while standardizing on reusable templates that their 250+ bottlers could leverage and customize. They\u2019ve since enabled lines of businesses and bottlers to self-serve and build good portions of projects on their own – thus <\/span>eliminating bottlenecks by federating the work to where the expertise exists<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

IT is now delivering projects routinely in<\/span> \u00bc of the time<\/b><\/span> (12 weeks to 3 weeks) and can <\/span>onramp a new developer in just 3 weeks <\/b><\/span>(what previously took 2.5 months). The sales team is now equipped with a mobile application that acts as a single point of real-time data to effectively manage their customer relationships. They\u2019ve also developed new IoT projects around creating smart coolers which provide analytics to rapidly enrich and combine structured and unstructured data sets, thus providing better customer experience and analyzing consumer behavior to promote new products and services. <\/span>All of this is built on MuleSoft\u2019s unified runtime for Hybrid Integrations and APIs on one single platform<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About Coca-Cola<\/span><\/h4>\n

Coca-Cola, one of the world\u2019s most iconic brands ever, maintains its same mission 125 years later: to \u201copen happiness.\u201d Today there are 1.9 billion servings of Coca-Cola Company products served every day. <\/span>Distributing this overwhelming amount of product requires the company to rely on an ecosystem of bottlers and distributor<\/span>s<\/b>, with over 250 of them operating on 5 continents. Now, Coca-Cola has evolved from the glass bottled beverage it once was to a global brand, with consumers engaging across multiple digital channels which are changing rapidly as <\/span><\/span>technology evolves.<\/span><\/p>\n