Agency Leader Shortlisted for Most Innovative Partner of the Year, Americas Service Delivery Partner of the Year and Americas Partner of the Year

BOSTON; February 11, 2015- SapientNitro today announced that it has been nominated by hybris software, an SAP company, for three prestigious awards given to the software maker's leading partners. This year marks the second in a row that hybris has nominated SapientNitro for the Americas Partner of the Year award, which the agency won last year.  In 2015, SapientNitro is also shortlisted for the Most Innovative Partner of the Year and the Americas Service Delivery Partner of the Year award categories. Winners will be announced at the hybris Global Partner Summit, which takes place February 11-13 in Munich, Germany.

"SapientNitro has worked with hybris to deliver omni-channel commerce solutions that help our clients transform the buying experience for their always-on customers and channel partners -across any device and from any location, online or offline," said Chris Davey, Senior Vice President, Business Transformation and Strategy at SapientNitro.

Together, SapientNitro and hybris have developed some of the most complex and impactful commerce solutions across the globe. Clients have spanned multiple geographies and industries ranging from retail to life sciences, travel and business-to-business (B2B). In 2014, the company added or completed dozens of engagements including an omni-channel shopping solution for a grocery chain, a next generation digital platform and experience for a global designer and retailer and a product information management and distribution capability for a global gaming and entertainment company.

SapientNitro offers clients a complete solution spanning the full SAP customer engagement and commerce (CEC) portfolio, including commerce, marketing, sales and service. Clients benefit from world-class customer engagement and commerce tools delivered in the context of their brand strategy, and by a SapientNitro team known for its experience design, performance marketing and systems integration capabilities.

"Our joint clients are seeking business solutions that transform the way they engage with highly-connected customers and partners," Davey continued. "We are honored to receive these nominations and believe they are a testament to our ongoing commitment to create immersive brand experiences that deliver competitive differentiation for our clients."

About SapientNitro

SapientNitroSM , part of Publicis.Sapient, is a new breed of agency redefining storytelling for an always-on world. We're changing the way our clients engage today's connected consumers by uniquely creating integrated, immersive stories across brand communications, digital engagement, and omni-channel commerce. We call it Storyscaping, where art and imagination meet the power and scale of systems thinking. SapientNitro's unique combination of creative, brand and technology expertise results in one global team collaborating across disciplines, perspectives and continents to create game-changing success for our Global 1000 clients, such as Chrysler, Citi, The Coca-Cola Company, Lufthansa, Target, and Vodafone, in 31 cities across The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.www.sapientnitro.com.

About hybris

hybris software, an SAP company, provides omni-channel customer engagement and commerce solutions that allow organizations to build up a contextual understanding of their customers in real-time, deliver a more impactful, relevant customer experience and sell more goods, services and digital content across every touch point, channel and device. Through its state-of-the-art customer data management, context driven marketing tools and unified commerce processes, hybris has helped some of the world's leading organizations including 3M, ASICS, Bridgestone, EE, Galeries Lafayette, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss & Co, Nestlé, Nespresso, Nikon, Rexel, Samsung Electronics, Ted Baker, Tommy Bahama and W.W. Grainger, to attract, retain, and grow a profitable customer base. hybris Commerce Suite and hybris Marketing sit right at the heart of SAP's customer engagement and commerce (CEC) suite of solutions, alongside SAP® Cloud for Sales, SAP Cloud for Service and SAP CRM. These provide organizations with the foundation, framework and business tools to create a holistic customer view across channels, simplify customer engagement and solve complex business problems.www.hybris.com.

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