Company Profile
Employees: 13,000 worldwide
Turnover: $2.7 billion worldwide
Offices: 168 direct offices in 41 countries with customers in more than 200 countries. UK locations include Farnborough, Manchester and Solihull.
Parent/Holding Co: Privately owned, Infor's majority shareholder is a private equity company called Golden Gate Capital.
Activities: Infor offers a complete array of products to manage every part of the front office, back office, and supply chain operations. Infor combines focused, hands-on industry experience with global breadth to help companies deal with today's challenges and prepare for tomorrow's opportunities. Infor offers deep, industry-specific applications and suites that are engineered for speed and use groundbreaking technology to deliver a rich user experience. Infor CloudSuites provide complete industry suites in the cloud via Amazon Web Services.
Dealers/VARS/Systems Integrators: 1,745 technology, solution, system integrator and channel partners globally.
Industrial Sectors
Industrial, high-tech, equipment, distribution, food & beverage, fashion, automotive, and aerospace and defence. Importantly, Infor solutions include functionality at the micro vertical level for many of these sectors.
User Profile
73,000 customers – including 2,750 cloud customers; the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, the top 10 high tech companies, the top 20 automotive companies, 19 of the top 20 aerospace companies, four of the five top brewers, 17 of the top 20 industrial distributors, 16 of the top 20 global retailers and six of the top 10 global luxury brands.
User References
Ferrari, BAE Systems, SAB Miller, Pork Farms, Filtronic, Promethean, South Boats, Hadley Industries, Sandvik Mining & Construction, Piper Aircraft, British Sugar, Oxford Instruments, Symington's, Ricoh, Hitachi and Organix.
Services
Infor offers localised support with global service backing, with 8,770 employees in consulting, development and support. In total 70% of all employees are product facing.
Applications/Products
Infor provides applications to manage both front and back office and the supply chain. ERP applications include M3, SyteLine and LN (Baan). Infor's supply chain management applications cover S&OP, supply chain planning and execution, and supply chain execution for logistics providers. Additionally, Infor offers customer relationship management, enterprise asset management, financial management, human capital management, product configuration management and product lifecycle management.
Infor ION – an innovative, lightweight middleware integration framework – is Infor's top-selling product. Infor Ming.le is a social business tool that enables fast information sharing and collaboration. Infor recently launched Infor CloudSuite – the first group of industry-specific, core enterprise applications available in the cloud to run an entire business.
Case Study
Marchesini Group designs and manufactures packaging machines for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries with 14 production sites supplying a wide range of high profile consumer brands. Marchesini upgraded from its Baan ERP to Infor LN (10.3) to ensure a faster response to customer demand - which often changes midconstruction phase. Within the single ERP environment Marchesini benefits from Infor ION (Intelligent Open Network), a lightweight middleware built to integrate business applications. This includes Infor applications (ERP, CRM, SCM), and the EAM (enterprise asset management) and 3rd party applications and even those developed in-house. Infor Ming.le helps consolidate applications and related data in one single intuitive interface which is easy to use. It allows all employees to communicate and collaborate by sharing documents, projects and photos leading to a significant increase in productivity. Thanks to new levels of integration around 1,500 users amongst designers, engineers and other professionals, can now access and collaborate using Infor LN.
