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Milan, 8 February 2012
Portaltech Reply, the Reply company specialising in the provision of e-commerce implementation and multichannel consulting services, was recognised by hybris, leader in multichannel e-commerce software solutions, with a remarkable set of awards at the 2012 hybris Partner Summit.
The prestigious “EMEA Partner of the Year”, was awarded to Portaltech Reply thanks to major projects for accounts such as H3G, O2, TUI Travel, Monsoon & Accessorize, Office Shoes and Bunzl Group.
Portaltech Reply also secured Global Partner of the year, outperforming the best partners from North America and Asia Pacific. In conclusion, as a confirmation of the significant results achieved alongside hybris, the Portaltech Reply team was awarded with the Platinum Elite status, becoming the first and only partner worldwide achieving this level of partnership.
During the award ceremony, Carsten Thoma, co-founder and COO of hybris, commented that Portaltech Reply is the only partner among the 160 operating globally that works exclusively on the hybris technology platform and the success and awards achieved give evidence for the soundness of this choice.
"The partnership with hybris has developed with mutual satisfaction since 2007" – said Mark Adams, Partner at Portaltech Reply - "It was a great a honour to be recognised as the leading hybris partner globally The team deserves every credit for the hard work and focus on helping our joint hybris customers grow e-commerce revenues and put in place robust and effective multi-channel trading capabilities. With these awards, Portaltech Reply confirm its position as acknowledged market leader in online retail and e-business, having implemented over 65% of hybris based technology projects in the UK".
"The recognition bestowed on Portaltech Reply" - stated Filippo Rizzante, Executive Partner and CTO of Reply - "gives us further incentive for investments that help us better support companies adopting e-commerce multichannel solutions".
"Portaltech Reply boasts an exceptional level of expertise, focussed on one of the fastest growing industries, e-commerce, where today major retailers are increasingly investing", Filippo Rizzante continued.
"Portaltech Reply stands for a centre of excellence specialised in multichannel e-commerce and online retail, and provides a strategic contribution to the development of our Group in Europe. Thanks to its well-established partnership with hybris, the company represents an important asset on which we build our offer".
According to Gartner, demand for e-commerce will continue to grow in the next months: marketing departments, CIOs and IT professionals will look at it as a driver for sales operations improvement, revenue and profits increase, and better engagement with new and prospective customers. In order to increase their e-commerce visibility, in 2012 companies will allocate more budget to the development of mobile applications, social and cloud-based solutions, with an increase between 5 to 15 percent. It is estimated that by 2015 companies that have developed a practical multichannel e-commerce strategy will be able to generate up to 50 percent of sales through the web.
Portaltech Reply Portaltech Reply is the Reply company specialising in the provision of e-commerce implementation and Multichannel consulting services. The company has gained substantial experience in e-commerce since inception in 2000 by working on some of Europe’s largest e-commerce and MultiChannel retailing projects. Portaltech Reply is 100% dedicated to hybris technology and is one of the world’s most experienced and respected implementation partners with Platinum Elite status. www.portaltechreply.com