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Infor: a grown-up stealth start-up

Infor: a grown-up stealth start-up

By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 19, 2013

I have known Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor for going on 2 decades now. He was a polymath way before I wrote a book celebrating them. He has computer science and law degrees in addition to an MBA. He is on the board of a media company, a museum, a jazz organization and a charity. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Charles Phillips, erp, Infor, Infor Global Solutions, Lawson, Morgan Stanley, oracle, sap | 1 Response

Event Report: #InforSummit Reveals More Than A Redesigned Infor

Event Report: #InforSummit Reveals More Than A Redesigned Infor

By R "Ray" Wang on February 19, 2013

Changes at Infor More Than Cosmetic Analysts and tech watchers gathered on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2013, for Infor Summit, a progress check on Infor, the third largest independent applications vendor in the market.  While many customers may not have heard of Infor, most have heard of the brands it has acquired over the last […]

Posted in Business | Tagged analyst event, Business Analytics, business intelligence, Charles Phillips, Constellation Research, CRM, CustExp, Customer Experience, customer relationship management, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Epiphany, erp, event report, Hansen, industry vertical, Infor, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, Infor ION, Infor Motion, Intentia, Lawson, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Lawson Software, microverticals, mobile, mobile enterprise, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy | 2 Responses

Inforum: The Enterprise Climbers

Inforum: The Enterprise Climbers

By Vinnie Mirchandani on April 26, 2012

Bill Starke’s sculpture in the lobby of the Hyatt in Denver I stayed at this week is a good metaphor for the changing enterprise software industry. In general, everyone treats SAP and Oracle as the pursued, and SaaS vendors as the pursuers. Infor is generally talked about as a list of 70,000 customers on every […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Charles Phillips, Infor Global Solutions, Lawson, oracle, Oracle Corporation, salesforce.com

News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10

News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10

By R "Ray" Wang on September 26, 2011

After 11 months of behind the scenes work, CEO Charles Phillips and the Infor management team unveiled the launch of Infor 10 in New York City on September 13, 2011, to customers, industry analysts, media, and investment analysts.  The new Infor has kept busy with key management team hires, the $1.84 B acquisition of Lawson, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analyst event, Apps Strategy, Charles Phillips, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, CRM, Customer Experience, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, erp, HR, HR Tech, Human Capital Management, Infor, Infor 10, Infor ION, Lawson, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Lawson Software, nalyst event, News Analysis, Public Sector, purpose built, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, supply chain, suppy chain management

Larry Ellison And I Disagree, And Not Just About The America’s Cup

Larry Ellison And I Disagree, And Not Just About The America’s Cup

By Naomi Bloom on June 28, 2011

First things first.  Although all responsibility for this post is mine, I want to offer my sincere appreciation to Michael Krigsman (@mkrigsman on Twitter) for his suggestions on how I could write a better, more useful and balanced post and to Dennis Moore (@dbmoore on Twitter) for his insights (with which I agree entirely) about those […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, HR Tech, HRM Software, Lawson, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS | 2 Responses

Friday Rant: When Will Infor Get Serious About Procurement?

Friday Rant: When Will Infor Get Serious About Procurement?

By Jason Busch on April 29, 2011

Earlier this week, Infor announced it was acquiring Lawson, a slumping ERP provider with very limited procurement capabilities relative to SAP and Oracle, let alone best-of-breed procurement vendors. Given Infor’s furious acquisit…

Posted in Business | Tagged Infor, Infor Global Solutions, Lawson, procurement, Supplier relationship management, supply chain

Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Pesky Software Licensing Audits

Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Pesky Software Licensing Audits

By R "Ray" Wang on April 19, 2011

Organizations Report Increase In Software Licensing Audits Across the board, the largest complaints about software vendors and their business practices have come from increasingly aggressive software auditing practices.  Once thought to be a small possibility, the software vendors now wield this big stick to drive up sales and of course ensure compliance.  Given the 32 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Apps Strategy, best practices, CA, CIO, contract negotiations, contract strategy, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, Epicor, hp, ibm, Infor, Intuit, Lawson, license fees, license management, license policy, license returns, microsoft, oracle, procurement, QAD, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Sage, sap, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software mainteance, software maintenance, software ownership, software ownership lifecycle, software pricing, Sunguard, vendor management, vendor strategy | 1 Response

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

By Dennis Moore on April 15, 2011

Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon.com, apple, C3, Cisco, Cloud, Dell, Epicor, google, hadoop, hp, ibm, Infor, Larry Ellison, Lawson, Marc Benioff, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, mySQL, news, NoSQL, oracle, Patent, PeopleSoft, salesforce.com, sap, Steve Ballmer, VMware, workday

Lawson Software — A Very Sad Ending

Lawson Software — A Very Sad Ending

By Naomi Bloom on April 8, 2011

Lars Lawson — The Symbol Of All Things Lawson I first wrote about the HRM enterprise software “Snowdons of Yesteryear” (with apologies to Joseph Heller for this misuse of his famous phrase, “where are the Snowdons of yesteryear” in Catch-22) in the earliest days of this blog (so 11/2009).  In that original post, I reflected […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged enterprise software, ibm, Infor, Lawson, Looking Back/Looking Forward, M&A/PE/Ownership Changes, PeopleSoft, SaaS, talent management | 5 Responses

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2011-03-15

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2011-03-15

By Dennis Moore on March 15, 2011

Enterprise news and headlines, first half of March 2011 iPad 2. SAP BI 4. Lawson is up for sale. Larry gets richer. HP launches a new strategy. Potential #Lawson acquisition – How it could affect you Software companies come and go but software products last forever Chuck Phillips and #Infor Offer $1.84 Billion for #Lawson; […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, Hewlett-Packard, hp, Infor Global Solutions, Lawson, news, salesforce.com, SAP AG

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