Gucci Group engages Inkriti for Global Delivery enabled Quality Assurance Services

Jun 16, 2008
Framingham, MA

Inkriti LLC, an MA-based e-business technology consulting firm today announced it will provide Global Delivery enabled Quality Assurance Services to the Gucci Group, the premier retailer of multi-brand luxury goods such as Gucci, Yves-St.Laurent, Boucheron, Stella McCartney, Sergio Rossi and others.

As a part of this engagement, Inkriti will create a Quality Assurance strategy for the various e-commerce websites, build regression test suites and establish a team of onsite and offshore quality assurance engineers, to extensively test the websites and the underlying infrastructure. This will enable Gucci to take proactive and protective measures, aid in maintaining business continuity and respond to scalability and stability issues. Furthermore, this engagement will ensure that Gucci addresses these demands with a flexible and low-cost model based on Inkriti's Global Delivery capabilities. Inkriti expects to reduce the IT spending on the quality assurance of e-business websites by 50% using this flexible, low-cost delivery arrangement.

"We were selected by Gucci for our extensive experience with testing and maintaining large e-commerce websites. In particular, we came highly referred from RedcatsUSA, also a part of Gucci's parent company The PPR group, where we do excellent work, and it was a natural fit with Gucci's needs. " said Vinod Pabba, CEO of Inkriti. "With many marquee retail clients and long-term successful relationships, Inkriti is a leader in Managed E-business services; and partnering with the Gucci Group helps us solidify our presence in this vertical. We hope to continue our rapid growth as we move into the busy shopping season later in the year."

About Gucci Group

Gucci Group is one of the world's leading multi-brand luxury goods companies. The Group creates and distributes high-quality luxury goods, including ready-to-wear, handbags, luggage, small leather goods, shoes, timepieces, jewellery, ties and scarves, eyewear, perfumes, cosmetics and skincare products. This vast product range and the sharing of specific expertise among the various brands are some of the Group's greatest assets and a source of organic growth. Today, the Group directly operates 494 stores in major markets throughout the world and wholesales products through franchise stores, duty-free boutiques and leading department and specialty stores.

Gucci Group is owned by PPR, a global player in retail and luxury goods. The group represents renowned brands of Gucci Group, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Bedat & Co., Bottega Veneta, Boucheron, Sergio Rossi, Stella McCartney and Yves Saint Laurent.

About Inkriti

Inkriti is a technology consulting company that is a leading provider of Web 2.0 Solutions for customer-centric e-business. Our solutions leverage Web 2.0 principles to attract, convert and retain more customers online. And, our Global Delivery methodology results in a 65% savings in IT costs, provides resource flexibility and reduces time-to-market.

Inkriti is headquartered in Boston, MA and has a global technology center in India. For more information about Inkriti, please visit us on the web at www.inkriti.com or call (617) 233-7510.