Infor starts "cloud" Infor24 applications on the Windows platform of Azure

Solutions Infor24 created for expenditure management, asset management and resource management of the enterprise are available now. Each of these solutions provides accomplishment of functions of the corresponding standard application of Infor in shape of "cloud" service with flexible pricing.

In new solutions the Infor ION(tm) technology providing a possibility of the protected data exchange with applications of Infor and other developers in the client's infrastructure is used. It increases flexibility of deployment and simplifies the organization of hybrid infrastructures.

Now development of solutions of the next generation on the Windows platform of Azure which release is planned for 2011 is conducted. The number of these solutions includes the expanded version of an expenditure management system of Infor24 which will appear in the first half of the year of the next year. New solutions will be provided from data processing centers of Microsoft Azure and will be optimized for use of Azure technologies, including SQL Azure.

Windows Azure was selected from quality of the preferred platform according to the results of a comprehensive investigation during which it became clear that the Microsoft platform differs in the maximum flexibility and fundamental nature among all applications - both cloud, and developed on a customer site.

According to the developer, new Infor24 applications which can be purchased already now differ in an optimal combination of feature set and flexibility at implementation.