Date published: 01.09.08 - not release date

HYBRIS AND MEDIASURFACE JOIN FORCES: COMMON SOLUTION FACILITATES MANAGEMENT OF PRODUCT AND CONTENT-HEAVY E-BUSINESS OFFERS

•Partners combine e-business and Web Content Management knowledge
•First joint projects already underway

Munich – 11th December 2007. As part of its Europe-wide course of expansion, hybris can now rely on an additional acclaimed partner, Mediasurface. Through partnership with Mediasurface, the Munich-based PIM and ecommerce expert is extending its solutions portfolio in Web Content Management. The combination enables convenient maintenance and management of extensive product data, descriptions and media in a variety of formats. Bringing together all this information on one platform means it can be distributed with no media gaps to integrated ecommerce and database publishing applications and so ensures that all publication channels, both online and offline, are always up-to-date.

UK-based Mediasurface employs 200 people and has for many years been active in northern and western Europe and the USA. More than 500 companies, including Citigroup, ESPN, AstraZeneca and T-Mobile, place their confidence in its user-friendly solutions to create, integrate and place content precisely via multilingual websites, portals, Intranets and Extranets.

“As a leading European Web Content Management (WCM) company, Mediasurface has clear advantages over other providers and has outstanding solutions to realise complex customer requirements. We look forward to many interesting projects and close cooperation with the Mediasurface team,” says Ariel Lüdi, Chief Executive Officer of the hybris Group.

Michel da Silva, Sales Manager Continental Europe, is similarly positive about the partnership: “The cooperation between hybris and Mediasurface enhances the offers of both partners: the ecommerce expertise of hybris coupled with our Morello WCM offer gives our customers a solid basis to ensure success in e-business.”

The central PIM database from hybris, which stores structured product data with numerous attributes, accesses Mediasurface’s Morello via a predefined interface. There, the unstructured information, such as text, graphics and images, is read out and fed into the online sales channel together with the structured product data. This method simplifies the management of single products and product categories, and the shared creation and editing of text and multimedia documents. Manual data management is no longer required and companies benefit not only from up-to-date, but also high-quality content.

“When two prestigious software houses pool their knowledge to offer a common solution, it is the customer that benefits: integration is simpler and the risk clearer, since interfaces that are already defined are available. The first joint projects are already signalling the demand for complete solutions and speaking for our success,” says Lüdi.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About Mediasurface

Mediasurface develops, markets and implements Web Content Management (WCM) software that helps businesses take full advantage of the capabilities of the web by transforming the complex task of managing websites into straightforward activities.

Its enterprise strength solution Morello has changed the face of content management and is used to power sophisticated intranets, extranets, websites and other digital channels for many of the world’s leading companies.

Mediasurface operates through wholly owned subsidiaries and partners across Europe, the USA, India and the AsiaPacific region. www.mediasurface.com

About hybris

hybris supplies standard software solutions for the media-independent management of product information and its distribution over both online and print channels.

Manufacturers, vendors, marketplace operators and purchasing companies consolidate and manage their entire product information in every language on one platform, in the process creating a “single source of truth”. Enterprises are able to supply online and print channels with information from this central hub. Integrated solutions for catalogue management, ecommerce, e-procurement and database publishing provide you with personalised and channel-specific data recycling throughout all electronic procurement and sales channels. This also means that print catalogues can be published without media fragmentation.

The hybris solution’s integrative approach to managing and recycling product information leads to a reduction in process costs, clearing the path for companies to add new sales and procurement markets at low cost. The return on investment with hybris is very fast. As hybris has selected to use standards-based and future-proof basic technologies in its solutions, investments are secure over the long term.

Established in 1997, the company is based in Munich and has offices in the UK, Benelux, Denmark and Switzerland, with over 1,000 customers worldwide.

For further info:

Michele Bayliss
Ascendant Communications
Tel: 01273 475672
Email: mbayliss@ascendcomms.net