FREMONT, California, September 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --



iGATE (NASDAQ: IGTE), the first integrated technology and operations company providing Business Outcomes-based solutions, today announced its multi-regional Gold partnership status with hybris, an SAP company and the world's fastest-growing commerce platform provider. iGATE is leveraging hybris to accelerate the global commerce success of the leading Fortune 500 companies.

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As the global commerce market continues to grow, enterprises are challenged by the ever increasing need to efficiently create and manage omni-channel and multi-lingual sites. In the partnership, iGATE provides strategic consulting, site design, and systems integration to ensure that enterprises fully capitalize on the power of the hybris platform.

Sanjay Tugnait, EVP, Head of Sales - North America and Global Head of Alliances at iGATE said, "In today's marketplace it is imperative for organizations to consistently engage their clients with commerce sites across multiple channels and create an exceptional omni-channel user experience. We have been making strategic investments in the e-Commerce space and our partnership with hybris enables us to deliver leading omni-channel commerce solutions to a broader client base and help global companies implement these solutions more effectively."

Today's multi-touchpoint market often requires integration across multiple systems to create a unified and compelling user experience across all devices. With the ever growing shift to mobile devices and social networks, iGATE has developed a robust expertise and global workforce to enable agile commerce solutions for all these touchpoints.

Frank Schoutissen, Vice President Channels at hybris  said, "We are seeing increased traction in the marketplace and the partnership with iGATE as a multi-regional Gold partner will help us address this need. hybris' Commerce Suite will help iGATE to deliver omni-channel commerce solutions to their clients and enable them to adapt to changing consumer needs."

Recent successes include enterprise implementations and global expansion for Fortune 500 clients in healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, retail and media/publishing industries. Sites included B2C, B2B and B2E multi-channel commerce environments with real-time order management and analytics. 

Shobha Meera, Vice President, Alliances at iGATE said, "The partnership combines iGATE's e-Commerce expertise with hybris' modern, agile and comprehensive commerce platform, which provides customers both a technology as well as an implementation partner to improve the overall customer experience. This partnership will enhance the already growing acceptance of this service in the customer markets. We are now able to create a uniform and compelling customer experience in complex environments for clients in different industries, which open up new business opportunities for both our companies."

About iGATE

iGATE Corporation is the first integrated technology and operations (iTOPS) company providing full-spectrum consulting, technology and business process outsourcing, and product and engineering solutions on a Business Outcomes-based model. Armed with over three decades of IT Services experience and powered by the iTOPS platform, iGATE's multi-location global organization has a talent pool of more than 28,500 employees and consistently delivers effective solutions to over 300 companies including Fortune 1000 clients spanning verticals such as: banking and financial services; insurance and healthcare; life sciences; manufacturing, retail, distribution and logistics; media, entertainment, leisure and travel; energy and utilities; public sector; and independent software vendors. Please visit http://www.igate.com for more information.

iGATE Corporation is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "IGTE."

About hybris, an SAP Company

hybris 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 http://www.hybris.com.

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SOURCE iGATE Corporation