Make MyDay, says Infor, with new Web 2.0 user interface

Dubbed Infor MyDay, it will apply to Infor ERP Adage, ERP LN, ERP SyteLine, and ERP Visual applications, and, according to the blurb, ‘provides central access to the critical information users need to excel in their daily work’. What that means is that users get the information they need in a personalised format, with drill-downs and the rest, at no cost to active maintenance customers. Bruce Gordon, Infor’s CTO, explains that since people spend much of their day interacting with business applications, searching for and consolidating data manually, the MyDay development team sought to reduce the time required to do that. Hence the configurable interface which directs users to focus on their key tasks, presenting current information from virtually any data source into a tailored web page, complete with reports and KPIs based on their roles. “One of the universal problems facing business software users is the deluge of data coming from all directions,” says Gordon. “This means they spend more time searching for the right information, and less time actually acting on that information to create value. Infor MyDay is a completely new approach in business software, which we developed from the ground up. It makes information actionable.” “Infor MyDay is exciting because it extends the process improvements of our lean manufacturing programme, automating the manual gathering and distribution of information,” comments Matt Haines, global IT manager at beta user AddisonMckee. “For example, MyDay removes the need for running several tooling reports in the morning and then updating a whiteboard in the engineering department. The production manager and associates obtain just the information they need on their screen in real-time without manual intervention. “Each person understands the progression of work, in a way that is personalised to their specific job, whether they are in the board room, the shop floor, sales, or shipping… This is a time and cost saver from an IT perspective too, because we don’t have to build customised reports for each user and they can personalise their own views without support from the IT department.”