An analysis of how a private company, led by a cloud champion from Oracle, transitioned from being an on-premise software provider to being a multi-tenant SaaS player.

1. Infor is a private enterprise software company in the US
Infor adopted a hybrid approach towards cloud, investing in cloud post-2010
Market:
Worldwide
(200 countries)
Cloud solutions:
IaaS, PaaS,
SaaS
Customers
(SaaS):
2100, 12M users
Employees:
12,400
Revenue (2012):
$ 2.8Billion
Infor
• Was found in 2002, and is headquartered in New York, USA.
• Solutions offered for ERP,CRM, SCM, Asset Management, Product Life Cycle Management
• Follows the hybrid strategy - offering both on-premise and cloud.
Source: Infor website Corporate Overview (2012)

2. Infor’s transformation : focus on innovation, R&D, UX
Welcoming Charles Phillips as CEO in October,2010 marked a shift in strategy
Charles Phillips, CEO “We’re almost a cloud startup, but
we want to build application suites not data centers.”
Source: Infor website Corporate Overview (2012)
Under Charles Phillips,
Infor operated as “world’s
largest startup”
User Interface - key
component of Infor’s cloud
strategy.
Investment 2010 to 2012:
1700 new employees
600+ engineers
5,293 new product features