Myntra accelerates its digital transformation journey with Microsoft Cloud
With Azure powering the biggest-ever End osf Reason Sale as Myntra reimagines online shopping experience for customers
Myntra, India’s leading destination for fashion and lifestyle, has partnered with Microsoft to accelerate its digital transformation and offer an unmatched experience to its customers. Leveraging Microsoft Azure, Myntra is focused on innovation, speed and agility to strengthen its leadership position even further.
“As we accelerate our business and grow our value, the ability to scale our technology in a secure environment to accommodate this growth is critical,” said Amar Nagaram, CEO, Myntra. “The Microsoft Azure platform provides our teams the ability to deliver innovative and personalized capabilities for our customers with speed supported by a strong depth of technology expertise from the Microsoft team.”
Myntra has worked closely with Microsoft to migrate its platform – from supply chain management to inventory to site capabilities – to Azure for trusted, always-on, hyper-scale and cost-effective computing. These critical capabilities support its entire portfolio of 7,00,000 styles from more than 3,000 international and domestic brands available on its store. Myntra is now in a position to offer a seamless and personalized experience for customers as they shop across its portal both from their personal computers and mobile phones.
The elasticity of Azure is helping Myntra scale rapidly for big spikes that occur routinely during festive seasons. Since the deployment of Azure, Myntra, has recorded a 50 percent rise in orders in the latest edition of its biennial End of Reason Sale.Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India, said, “We are thrilled to partner with Myntra to integrate Azure cloud and analytics capabilities in India’s largest fashion e-tailer. The solutions we build together will empower Myntra to be the leading fashion e-commerce experience from India.”
Microsoft Azure supports the company’s engineering and product management teams rapidly develop, deploy and test new capabilities. By building and centralizing its data platform on Azure, Myntra is applying advanced analytics and machine learning to gain a comprehensive understanding of customers and deliver highly personalized products, marketing and service for them. The company is using Microsoft Power BI to empower its employees to visualize and act on real time feedback to create the best customer experience and drive the business.
Microsoft is relentlessly working towards making technology accessible and productive for all. This partnership with Myntra is a tremendous opportunity to bring out a transformation in the Indian ecommerce space and to co-create and deliver industry solutions on Azure.
About Myntra:
Myntra is India’s leading platform for fashion brands and pioneer in m-commerce play. An integral part of the Flipkart Group, Myntra brings together technology and fashion to create the best experience in the fashion and lifestyle space in India. The company has partnered with over 3000+ leading fashion and lifestyle brands in the country such as Nike, adidas, Puma, Levis, Wrangler, Arrow, Jealous 21, Diesel, CAT, Harley Davidson, Ferrari, Timberland, US Polo, FabIndia, Biba and many more, to offer a wide range in latest branded fashion and lifestyle wear. Myntra services over 23,000 pin codes across the country. With the largest in-season product catalogue, 100% authentic products, Cash on Delivery and 30-day Exchange/Return policy, Myntra is today the preferred shopping destination in India.
About Microsoft India:
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft set up its India operations in 1990. Today, Microsoft entities in India have over 10,000 employees, engaged in sales and marketing, research, development and customer services and support, across 11 Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. Microsoft offers its global cloud services from local data centers to accelerate digital transformation across Indian start-ups, businesses, and government organizations.
