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Software AG’s Digital Business Platform accelerates Kiabi’s cross-channel
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Software AG unveils API Management with On-Premise, Cloud and Hybrid deployment
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Kiabi recognized with Software AG Innovation Award
Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today announced that
Kiabi, a fashion retailer with a strong online presence servicing 20 million
customers across 32 countries and more than 500 stores, chose Software AG’s
webMethods API Management Platform to fulfill its vision of delivering a
superior customer experience, broaden its international business, and become
the world’s leading multi-channel fashion provider.
Kiabi is
using webMethods API (application programming interfaces) Management to extend
its digital ecosystem as a way to expose core business functions in real-time
to business partners and across all departments in their company. The API
ecosystem at Kiabi empowers both internal and external parties to deliver rich
and engaging experiences for their customers. This, in turn, drives innovation
far beyond the scope of the company’s current online platform—all while accelerating
time to market. webMethods is a key component of Software AG’s Digital Business
Platform, and has recently extended its API deployment options to include
on-premise, Cloud and Hybrid functionality.
Kiabi
built crucial API building blocks for composing applications ensuring they can
manage the rapidly changing demands of the fashion business. This enables them
to scale their systems and their online presence up—or down—rapidly depending
on customer demand.
Oliver
Guy, Retail Industry Director, Software AG, commented: “Kiabi’s approach has
great foresight. Retailers are finding that in order to compete in the
multi-channel world they need to share more and more information internally and
externally and provide consistent and re-usable capability across the
organization. Consequently a robust approach to managing APIs across both
cloud and on premise solutions is becoming crucial.”
Kiabi
uses other components of Software AG’s Digital Business Platform, including
Terracotta In-Memory Data Fabric to improve website performance, webMethods
integration to provide seamless system connectivity and ARIS collaborative
process modelling to map systems to their ever-evolving omni-channel processes.
At
Software AG’s ‘Innovation World’ Annual conference, Kiabi was honored with a
2015 Innovation Award.
Jean-Francois
Rompais, IT & Architecture Leader at Kiabi, said: “We are very grateful to
be recognized as a Digital Innovator by Software AG. Our API Management
program has been a core enabler of our cross-channel strategy. As we have
added sales channels, each of which has required access to similar data and
processes, our library of APIs has enabled us to do this faster and with
greater consistency – thus improving speed to market and quality of service.”
About
Kiabi
Kiabi is
a renowned brand in clothing for the whole family with 500 sales outlets
worldwide, 20 million customers, 8,200 employees and 1,558 billion euros
revenue. Kiabi is present in 32 countries through its online site
Kiabi.com. Kiabi is the French inventor of the low-cost off-the-rack fashion.