Infor cardinally changed ERP

The CEO of Infor who was with - the president of Oracle Charles Phillips hopes to improve a product portfolio of the company and to lift income by means of large-scale rebranding and the new technological solution Infor 10. It it was stated on Infor action in New York.

Phillips was appointed the CEO of Infor last year and since then avoided public statements, refused an interview for media and other performances while constantly held meetings with clients worldwide, and groups of developers of the company put finishing touches in Infor 10.

Not all know that some of the most widely used applications of Infor, for example, Baan and Syteline, were completely rewritten in recent years, Phillips in an interview before the action told. Despite these efforts of Infor, supported by private shareholders and being the third largest supplier of ERP after SAP and Oracle, because of the numerous acquisitions holding, but not the solid supplier company of the software with a certain vision looks rather as.

It is designed to change a situation to Infor 10 which will connect together own practices of Infor and products of third-party vendors in a new packet of the middleware (middleware) called by ION which is partially created using components of the open code. According to Phillips, instead of purchase of a huge packet of the middleware the product taking into account modern standards will be offered the enterprises.

Infor 10 includes the updated user interface - Workspace. This approach will also be applied to the products which passed to Infor during recent acquisition of Lawson Software, the head told, however the user interface Smart Office preferred by many clients of Lawson will remain optional.

Besides, Infor 10 will give the chance to the companies to start ERP as a cloud service or in a hybrid form with some components remaining in the property of the enterprise. Infor 10 also includes a number of the offers intended for different industries, but the vendor intends to pay attention and to "micro verticals". For example, in addition to orientation only to producers of food and drinks, Infor can suit also breweries.

The existing clients will get access to some functionality of Infor 10 within an annual service fee, and another software, such as ION, will be separately licensed, "for a reasonable payment", Phillips told.

According to Phillips, the new product is ready for entry into the market. "We have everything for clients production workers", - he emphasized and added that now about 60 clients work with ION. According to him, it gave the chance of Infor to hold careful testing of ION.

Partners need some time to experience Infor 10, Phillips told. "We have an understanding of the task set for us and probably we develop quicker, than our partners got used to observe", - Phillips emphasized.