CHICAGO, Jan. 27, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- hybris software, an SAP company and the world's fastest-growing commerce platform provider, has revealed that a record 1,500 worldwide delegates from its Partner Ecosystem attended this year's Global Partner Summit 2014, which took place in Munich, Germany, on January 22-24. During the three-day event, participants from the 350 companies within hybris' Global Partner Ecosystem, future partners and interested SAP partners came together to gain exclusive insight to the best omni-channel commerce expertise and cutting-edge innovation. Through an agenda of executive presentations, technical demonstrations and a highly personalized program, hybris equipped delegates with ground breaking ideas and perspectives to enable them to scale up and grow an even more successful business and take full advantage of new commercial opportunities in 2014 and beyond.
"hybris' acquisition by SAP has made our combined forces undefeatable," said Frank Schoutissen, Vice President of Channel at hybris. "The union of our agile omni-channel commerce solutions with the robust enterprise technology and industry leading in-memory, cloud and mobile innovations from SAP helps to facilitate new levels of customer insight and engagement. This year's event was the perfect platform for communicating with our partners the scale of opportunity that lies ahead and the commitment needed by them to stay abreast of hybris' phenomenal growth."
Over the past year, hybris has streamlined its Global Partner Ecosystem to drive even higher levels of quality for its customers. At this year's summit the company introduced a new Partner Program and Customer Engagement Model to deliver elevated value to partners and customers across the spectrum of industries in which it operates, including retail, consumer manufacturing, media, telco, sports and entertainment.
"We now have a staggering 7,500 individuals who are active around our hybris technology on a daily basis and we are looking to extend this ecosystem to 15,000 in the next 18 months," said Schoutissen. "The incredible numbers of attendees at this year's summit – almost double that of last year – clearly demonstrates the commitment our partners have to hybris and delivering the highest quality solutions to our customers."
Guest speakers at the event included Peter Sheldon, Principal Analyst at Forrester, Jim Herbert, Founding Director of Sceneric, Geert Leeman, Global Account Executive Nestlé Alliance at SAP, and Darin Archer, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Commerce, at Adobe. Presenting alongside hybris experts, they participated in the business, technology and delivery tracks which provided delegates with specific product updates, best practice, case study, and business relevant information vital to maximizing the success of future opportunities.
In addition to equipping its partner community with all the tools necessary to excel in the industry, the Global Partner Summit enables hybris to showcase the success of its partners through its awards program.
2014 Partner Awards Winners include:
| Global Partner of the Year | Accenture |
| Global ISV Partner of the Year | Adobe Systems |
| ISV Solution Partner of the Year | Avalara |
| APAC Partner of the Year | Whitelabelled |
| EMEA Partner of the Year | Sceneric a DigitasLBi Company |
| Americas Partner of the Year | Sapient |
| Most Innovative Partner of the Year | Babiel |
| Newcomer of the Year | Deloitte |
| Global Service Delivery Partner of the Year | Sceneric a DigitasLBi Company |
About hybris software
hybris software, an SAP Company, helps businesses around the globe sell more goods, services and digital content through every touchpoint, channel and device. hybris delivers OmniCommerce™: state-of-the-art master data management for commerce and unified commerce processes that give a business a single view of its customers, products and orders, and its customers a single view of the business. hybris' omni-channel software is built on a single platform, based on open standards, that is agile to support limitless innovation, efficient to drive the best TCO, and scalable and extensible to be the last commerce platform companies will ever need. Both principal industry analyst firms rank hybris as a "leader" and list its commerce platform among the top two or three in the market. The same software is available on-premise, on-demand and managed hosted, giving merchants of all sizes maximum flexibility. Over 500 companies have chosen hybris, including global B2B sites W.W.Grainger, Rexel, General Electric, Thomson Reuters and 3M as well as consumer brands Toys"R"Us UK, Metro, Bridgestone, Levi's, Nikon, Galeries Lafayette, Migros, Nespresso and Lufthansa. hybris is the future of commerce™. For more information, visit www.hybris.com.