Developers: | Infor |
Last Release Date: | July, 2013 |
Technology: | ERP |
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Infor ERP LN (Baan) is the solution for manufacturing enterprises. The main specialization of a product — discrete and project production.
A system maintains extensive quantity of production models:
- "make-to-stock production",
- "production under the order",
- "design under the order",
- "production by the principle precisely in time is JIT (Just In Time)"
etc.
Infor ERP LN (Baan) most full implements the standard of management of MRP II industrial enterprise and covers a broad spectrum of managerial tasks: from management of finance and production of the enterprise before management of after-sale service maintenance of the made products.
Infor ERP LN (Baan) works at a set of hardware-software platforms: from inexpensive Linux MySQL based on / to the powerful multiprocessor systems. According to the leading independent experts, the Infor ERP LN system (Baan) is the recognized world leader in the market of management systems for large and medium-sized industrial enterprises (more than 13,000 customers in 90 countries of the world).
Baan is recognized by all largest financial institutions of the world as the tool meeting requirements of the international audit. The unconditional advantage of a system is that it is applicable in many industries and successfully works at the enterprises of different scale.
2019: As a part of the solution on digitalization for the enterprises of mechanical engineering
On December 9, 2019 the Tsifra company reported that together with IPL signed the Memorandum of cooperation and announced creation of the specialized end-to-end solution on digitalization for the enterprises of mechanical engineering.
The solution will be based on one of ERP systems for Infor LN industry. Read more here.
2013: There was a version of Infor LN 10.3
The Infor company submitted the optimized version of the solution Infor LN 10.3 containing the built-in social technologies for business. In its structure the numerous improvements aimed at providing comfortable and fruitful joint work. Integrating the upgraded mechanisms of social business interaction users can cooperate most widely with colleagues, facilitating business processes. Functions of social cooperation provide operational management and reduce total expenses.
The company announced a release of the new version on July 29, 2013.
For increase in return from social communications in the company developers built in the Infor Ming.le system the new version of Infor LN. Now it is possible to interact with colleagues, to exchange content and to trace clients, orders and other important components of business processes within the familiar interface.
The updated product differs in the strengthened micro vertical focusing. In the whole Infor LN received more than 160 improvements aimed at the different industries and the markets. The new version of the solution increases the level of control of assets and costs for the companies needing the strengthened project management provides the optimized quality management and financial management, improves performance control for suppliers of automobile component parts.
Visualization of cost control at management of warranty obligations and claims helps to reduce the losses connected with claims to suppliers, increasing the level of customer service.
Version 10.3 uses a technology platform of Infor 10x for smooth integration and provides a business intelligence thanks to Infor Business Vault.
2012
Infor and Red Hat created Infor LN with the open code
The Infor company announced at the end of 2012 the beginning of cooperation with Red Hat, developer of solutions with the open code. The cooperation purpose — ensuring compatibility of ERP solutions of Infor with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware to propose to clients flexible, high-performance and reliable solutions based on industry standards. Now Infor10 ION and Infor LN are certified for the operational Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform and the solutions JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Certification of applications of Infor for the Red Hat platforms opens for clients access to a broad base of open innovations and gives the chance to considerably reduce deployment cost due to the choice of the pair solution.
In addition, both Infor LN, and ION can use MySQL and MariaDB now, reducing charges to apply solutions with the open code in the infrastructures to suppliers of the cloud services and clients having powers.
Doing the applications compatible to the open Red Hat platforms, Infor gives the chance to clients to start them on the flexible open platform for the hybrid infrastructures using physical, virtual and cloud resources. The products Infor support cloud and local infrastructures, using similar code base for ensuring identical functionality, and cooperation with Red Hat — one more step in the aspiration to help clients, having reduced deployment cost, having saved scalability, performance and reliability. In addition, the Infor10 ION technology allows clients to integrate quickly software packages on the open code.
JBoss Enterprise Middleware provides the companies with solutions with the open code which help to develop and unroll applications, to manage them, to optimize business processes and in the best way to integrate services and data. More effective, intellectual and integrated enterprises help clients to create these solutions.
Both Infor LN, and ION can be unrolled using Red Hat Middleware on the MySQL or MariaDB databases for creation of the finished solution for applications launch of Infor on open platforms. Software packages based on the open code — ideal option for suppliers of cloud services which can use them for creation of advantageous offers.
Infor and VMWare prepare virtual ERP
In November, 2012 it was announced that Infor entered partnership with VMWare within which the solution for start of the Infor ERP LN system based on virtual machines from VMWare will be developed. Thanks to this ERP from Infor it will be able to be used in a cloud that eventually will open the road for implementation of less expensive implementation projects.
Jointly the companies will create such architecture that clients and partners of Infor could create the virtual systems based on such products from VMWare as vSphere,Cloud Director and vFabric, said in a joint statement of vendors. As approves Infor, now her clients will have an opportunity to select both cloud, and traditional (on-premises) model of deployment the ERP system.
Recommendations concerning use of ERP from Infor in virtual environment of VMware will become available in the next several weeks, Ali Shadman, the leading vice president for cloud business of Infor said. According to him, further except LN in a cloud also other Infor systems will become available.
Let's remind that already signed the similar agreement of Infor with Red Hat in September, 2012.