SAP Hybris Named a Leader in Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant Report for Digital Commerce

SAP Hybris Named a Leader
in Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant Report for Digital Commerce

Singapore — May 18, 2017 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that SAP Hybris (SAP)*SAP Hybris, a leading provider of omnichannel customer engagement and commerce
solutions, has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the leaders’ quadrant of the
April 2017 Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce.

The report states that digital commerce platform vendors offer solutions that
support:

·         The creation and
development of digital relationships with consumers and business customers
across multiple retail, wholesale, mobile, direct and indirect sales, digital
sales and call center channels

·         Organizations in building
business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), B2B2C or any other
combination of commerce site

·         A range of business
objectives, such as reducing costs, generating incremental revenue and enabling
transformational business change

The report evaluated 21
providers of digital commerce platforms based on the ability to execute and
completeness of vision.

“Today’s digital commerce
landscape has, of course, fundamentally changed the way consumers and business
people alike shop and interact with the companies they do business with online
and across channels,” said Brian Walker, chief strategy officer, SAP Hybris.
“We are pleased to be recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Report
for Digital Commerce, which we believe further validates our mission to help
B2B and B2C brands deliver the phenomenal shopping experiences their customers
expect.”

According to the report,
leaders demonstrate the ability to:

·         Provide depth and breadth of commerce functionality

·         Deliver commerce capabilities across multiple
industries and business models

·         Deliver commerce platforms that can scale up to
support large transaction volumes and high levels of digital commerce gross
merchandise volume revenue

·         Provide sales and support services both directly
and through an ecosystem of application, services and integration partners

·         Deliver additional application functionality that
integrates with the core commerce platform

The report states, “Leaders
also have financial, technical and organizational viability, and they appear
consistently on client evaluations of digital commerce vendors. They often set
the competitive benchmark against which other vendors compare themselves.”

Download a copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Digital Commerce report.

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*SAP Hybris is a brand name
launched in January 2016 to represent the SAP solutions for customer engagement
and commerce as well as the offerings, employees and business of acquired
company hybris AG, which continues to be our legal entity until integration
with SAP is complete.