Infor10 ION

Infor10 ION is the integration business platform belonging to the category software - middleware. Lightweight, innovative for implementation and based on open standards. The platform is developed so that to answer the current and future tasks of the companies at the minimum costs for maintenance of IT infrastructure.

ION Suite provides ample opportunities of integration of IT applications. With the Infor10 ION platform the company receives a uniform format of the reporting and analytics, business processes and monitoring within uniform IT architecture. Besides, the ION platform is based on the architecture using data on the taking place events and allowing to send beforehand to users of the notification with tasks for works, information on deviations in business processes, etc.

Users do not need to come into the IT system to obtain the necessary information – the ION platform provides timely receipt of data to them.

Specific Features

The platform includes four types of services:

ION CONNECT - ensures operation of applications "in unison", helping to implement business processes freely; to interact quickly with new partners and customers, to use business functionality of the platform for fast return of investments.

ION BUSINESS VAULT is the uniform optimized secure storage location of key business data. The unified source of all data passing through ION do it by the powerful platform of the reporting and analytics.

ION EVENT MANAGEMENT – for control of the status of accomplishment of tasks according to agreements on the level of rendering services (SLA), automatically notifies on deviations of business processes from regulation and probable non-performance of tasks.

Determination of not taken place events - is also possible to define by Event Management service events which had to take place, but did not occur. For example, the delivery of goods to the important customer which is not made in the necessary day or time. Employees of Sales management and deliveries will be timely notified on it.

ION WORKFLOW – helps to implement work assignments, events and business documentation to the user for fast and exact accomplishment business potsessa. Fast modeling of business process – business process modeling is performed in a graphic type and is based on the standard of Business process management (BPMN 2.0). It facilitates even difficult production processes and ensures functioning with use of all integrated applications.

Infor tries to win the middleware market

Infor, the third largest player in the world market of ERP systems after SAP and Oracle, is engaged in creation of an own technology platform which will allow the company both to increase revenue, and to facilitate to clients of Infor processes of integration and systems management.

It is about own platform of the middleware under the name ION which already, according to the statement of Infor, became the most quickly growing solution in a product portfolio of vendor. Since platform launch in 2010 the ION platform was purchased by about 900 clients worldwide, Infor stated.

However, if to place this digit in a context, it will become obvious that the number of users of ION hardly exceeds 1% of the customer base of vendor (70 thousand companies). This problem is partially connected with the fact that not all Infor applications can still work based on ION, besides, a number of users use older versions of applications which are a priori not compatible to the new platform, and are not going to change them. However, Infor offers clients of an option for a fast aprgreyd of applications at the fixed price, Steve Moroski, the vice president of the company for platform technologies said.

Initially intended for closer integration of applications, ION in about 50% of cases is used for ensuring connectivity of applications of Infor with programs of other vendors, first of all Oracle and SAP. Data exchange between different applications is performed by means of the XML-interface. All transactions are stored in a repository under the name Business Vault that allows to operate with the saved-up data with the purpose of a reporting preparation and their further analysis.

Earlier Infor was provided integration technology under the name OpenSOA, but she solves a bit different circle of problems: provides interaction of the Infor systems installed by on premises whereas ION allows to establish relation with the tretyestoronny systems and systems placed in a cloud. Also based on ION it is going to develop mobile solutions of Infor.

One more initiative in support of the ION platform is start of Infor of the environment for application development under the name Mongoose which is generally used by a command of vendor, but also is available also to his clients. Mongoose is founded on a stack of technologies from Microsoft.

According to Moroski, Infor will definitely not go the way creation of own DBMS as it was made by SAP, having provided to the market of HANA. But over support of HANA and integration into applications of Infor the vendor intends to work seriously.

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