Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS), a leading producer of flavored beverages, has signed a five year contract with HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, to provide IT application and infrastructure operations and management. HCL will deliver application support and maintenance, and manage and monitor infrastructure support and operations.

"After evaluating a number of global service providers, we selected HCL due to the strong team and comprehensive technical solution tailored to our business needs. With its Axon acquisition, HCL also offers deep SAP capabilities, an area of importance to us," said Virginia Guthrie, CIO and senior vice president of information technology for Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

The five-year engagement is expected to assist DPS in application support and maintenance, end-user computing, integrated service desk and network management. HCL will also deliver managed print services for DPS. The services will be delivered through HCL's partnership with Xerox.