Infor10 launched to compete head on with Oracle and SAP
25 October 2011
On September 27th Infor 10 was launched, as part of the aim of Infor’s new management to compete head to head with Oracle and SAP, and as such propel Infor from a mid-market ERP vendor to a full range ERP vendor.
Infor's new team (many who are ex Oracle corporation) concluded last month that they want Infor to compete on the basis of product differentiation, advising that Infor10 is principally about assembling product suites in each of the 13 vertical markets underpinned by a common architecture, and as a result have picked the best applications from their portfolio for each market segment. This new strategy strongly aligns Infor with SAP and Oracle as Infor10 is organised on market segments lines with specialised functionality and process maps within the products. Infor also announced that it is investing heavily in software engineers, claiming that more than 430 have been added to the headcount even before the recent acquisition of Lawson Software.
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