Ignify was an ERP, CRM, POS and

e-commerce E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain manag ...

software company headquartered in

Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California. Incorporate ...

with more than 500 employees in 8 countries. Ignify's tagline is "Igniting Ideas. Delivering Results." Ignify was founded by Sandeep Walia and Pankaj Kumar in 1999 in

Cerritos, California Cerritos (Spanish for "Little hills") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County. It was incorporated on April 24, 1956. As of 20 ...

. It won

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washi ...

's "Partner of the Year" award from 2010 to 2015, the Deloitte FAST 500 award of being in fastest growing companies in North America for multiple years. Ignify was also ranked in the Inc 5000 list for multiple years. Ignify won ERP Partner of the Year in Philippines in 2013 and 2014 and won Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the Year Award for Asia Pacific region in 2015.

Hitachi () is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Nissan ''zaibatsu'' and later DKB Group and Fuyo G ...

Solutions America Ltd acquired Ignify in December 2015. Ignify's CEO Sandeep Walia ran the Asia Pacific and Australia New Zealand business of Hitachi from 2015 to 2018. Hitachi Solutions went on to win the Microsoft Cloud Partner of the Year award in 2017. Mr. Walia then left Hitachi to start UNIFY – a software company specializing in

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech ...

ChatBots A chatbot or chatterbot is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. Designed to convincingly simulate the way a human would behav ...

and Customer Engagement.

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