NEWTOWN, Pa., Dec. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc.
(NYSE: EPAM), a leading digital transformation services and product
engineering company, today announced it was selected along with
Mars, Incorporated, as the winner of the 2021 Acquia Engage Award
for "Leader of the Pack: Retail." The Acquia Engage Awards
recognize high-impact digital experiences that organizations
worldwide are building with the Acquia Open Digital Experience
Platform, including Drupal Cloud and Marketing Cloud. Winners
demonstrate an advanced level of functionality, integration,
performance, and user experience.
Learn more about EPAM's partnership with
Acquia
"We are honored to be recognized alongside Mars for this award,"
said Seth Gregory, Director,
Software Engineering, and Head of the Acquia and Drupal Practice at
EPAM. "Leveraging the power of Acquia Site Factory, our teams
collaborated to bring a platform to life that enables the
accelerated delivery of compelling, consistent, and engaging
digital web experiences at scale to match the standards of Mars'
world-class brands."
Mars worked with EPAM to develop its vision of a "starter kit,"
a shared toolkit that provides all Mars brands with a well-defined
process and consistent starting point for building brand and
campaign web destinations. Prior to the creation of this platform
toolkit, Mars relied on "one-off" website development services that
led to many separate implementations unique to each individual
segment or brand, rather than a broad implementation with a single,
shared approach for the whole corporation.
"For our brands to deliver inclusive, engaging and elevated
consumer experiences, it's essential to provide our teams with
easy-to-assemble online experiences that are accessible,
high-performing and favor interactions across all devices," said
Richard Dartois, Director Digital
Demand Engineering, Mars, Incorporated. "Thanks to EPAM's advisory
services, collaborative approach and digital engineering
excellence, together we designed and built a modern website system
that enables 100x scale while consistently delivering the
experiences we need today for the world we want tomorrow."
With Acquia Site Factory as the underlying infrastructure, the
project team rapidly created a unified platform that provides new
compelling digital experiences for all Mars brands while ensuring
compliance, delivering easy maintenance, and reducing costs. The
toolkit helps Mars brands to easily create, build, manage and scale
new sites independently without developer intervention—leading to a
50 percent reduction in web development time and a 40 percent
decrease in ongoing web maintenance costs.
Acquia empowers the world's most ambitious brands to create
digital customer experiences that matter. With open-source Drupal
at its core, the Acquia Open DXP enables marketers, developers and
IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly
compose and deploy digital products and services that engage
customers, enhance conversions and help businesses stand out.
"Showcasing the most impressive digital experiences, across
industries and geographies, is a highlight of Acquia Engage," said
Lynne Capozzi, Chief Marketing
Officer at Acquia. "Each customer's story demonstrates the impact
that creatively designed and thoroughly executed digital
experiences can have on customer engagement and organizational
performance."
To learn more about EPAM and Mars' award-winning project,
watch the Acquia Engage 2021 on-demand session, How sweet it is:
Inside the EPAM and Mars digital transformation, or read the case
study.
About EPAM Systems
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc.
(NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its advanced software engineering
heritage to become the foremost global digital transformation
services provider – leading the industry in digital and physical
product development and digital platform engineering services.
Through its innovative strategy; integrated advisory, consulting
and design capabilities; and unique 'Engineering DNA,' EPAM's
globally deployed hybrid teams help make the future real for
clients and communities around the world by powering better
enterprise, education and health platforms that connect people,
optimize experiences, and improve people's lives. Selected by
Newsweek as a 2021 Most Loved Workplace, EPAM's global
multi-disciplinary teams serve customers in more than 40 countries
across five continents. As a recognized leader, EPAM is listed
among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services on
the Fortune 1000 and ranked as the top IT services company on
Fortune's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list for the last three
consecutive years. EPAM is also listed among Ad Age's top 25
World's Largest Agency Companies and in 2020, Consulting Magazine
named EPAM Continuum a top 20 Fastest-Growing Firm. Learn more
at www.epam.com and follow us on
Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Mars, Incorporated
For more than a century,
Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we
want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at
the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned
business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in
ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the
world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery,
food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000
dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction:
forward. With $40 billion in annual
sales, we produce some of the world's best-loved brands including
DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M's®, MILKY
WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®,
ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®,
BEN'S ORIGINAL™, WHISKAS®,
COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of
the world's pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield
Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet
Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the
communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five
Principles — Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and
Freedom — inspire our Associates to take action every day to help
create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets
can thrive. For more information about Mars, please visit
www.mars.com. Join us
on Facebook , Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram
and YouTube.
Forward-Looking Statements
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includes statements which may constitute forward-looking statements
made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the accuracy of which are
necessarily subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions as to
future events that may not prove to be accurate. Factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or
implied include general economic conditions and the factors
discussed in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. EPAM
undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events,
or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities
law.
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