HYBRIS AND PORTALTECH LAUNCH QUICKLIVE COMMERCE FOR SME MARKET AT E-COMMERCE EXPO 08

Published 16th October 2008

Leading UK online retailer Long Tall Sally to talk about the benefits of this solution

London – 16 October 2008. hybris, www.hybris.com, a leading multi-channel communication and commerce software vendor, and its strategic partner Portaltech (www.portaltech.co.uk), will be unveiling QuickLive Commerce, their joint proposition to the UK SME market, at E-Commerce Expo 2008 (www.ecommerceexpo.co.uk ) to be held at Olympia, London, from 28/ 29 October 2008. Long Tall Sally (www.longtallsally.com), the UK’s leading fashion retailer for tall women and the first organisation to select QuickLive Commerce as its preferred e-Commerce platform, will highlight the key factors that influenced its decision to invest in QuickLive Commerce at a seminar on the first day of the Expo, focusing on the challenges it faces in growing its online channel and expanding its global presence in the long term.

QuickLive Commerce has been designed to provide small and medium sized enterprises with a best of breed strategic solution that will help them to compete in the growing world of online business. Based on the hybris Commerce Suite, QuickLive Commerce will enable enterprises to benefit from a breadth of standard functionality at an affordable price. This, along with a fixed timescale and cost for delivery, should be extremely attractive to smaller businesses with tight budgets and who need to minimise risk.

Andrew Piscina, UK Country Manager for hybris, said: “e-Commerce is increasingly becoming the channel of choice for many consumers. Retailers of all sizes need to invest in the right technology to support them now and in the future. Only then can they enhance the shopping experience for their customers and compete effectively for online sales.”

Mark Adams, Sales Director for Portaltech, commented: “Small-to-medium retailers have the same need for an enterprise class, functionally rich, and easily customisable e-Commerce solution as much larger retail operations. They want to take advantage of next generation customer experience technologies but also need to ensure a low cost of ownership and quick time to market. QuickLive Commerce is the most sophisticated, flexible and scalable commerce platform available to small to medium sized retailers today. With hybris as the underlying technology, they can now invest in one platform that will future proof their e-Commerce strategy,” said Adams.

To find out more about hybris or Portaltech please either visit stand 631 at ECommerce Expo or click on www.hybris.com, www.portaltech.co.uk or www.quicklive.co.uk