Infor LX/BPCS Vision Roadmap

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Infor LX
Vision, Strategy and Roadmap
Nigel Barker
Senior Business Consultant, Infor

Key Points
• Infor’s investment into LX
• Modernization through Hook & Loop and Ming.le
• Industry focus
• Responsiveness to customers on LX
• Global presence – active customers in over 50 countries
• Investment and solutions from 4 major areas
• 10x Applications (Ming.leTM, Alerts, Workflow, etc..)
• ION Integrations
• Common System i applications and technology
• Enhancements to core ERP functionality

Food &
Beverage
CPG Life Science
Automotive
Supply
Chemical Other
Kyoyu Agri CO. Ltd.
TI Automotive
Infor LX Customers

LX Evolution

Infor ERP LX
A History of Constant Innovation
1999 2001 2005 20081994 2012
BPCS 8.x LX 8.3.0 – 8.3.3 LX 8.3.4BPCS 4.0.05 CD
Industry Focus
Database Foundation
Platform Foundation
Feature Pack Methodology
IDF Inquiries
Time Zone
Credit Card
LX ION Extension
Workspace
Globalization & Single
Instance
Exit Points
Century Dated
BPCS 6.x
Industry Focus
Client Server
LX 8.3.4 10x
In-Context
Drill back
SoHo
Posts, Feeds, Alerts, and Tasks
Collaborative and SocialBusiness Network Integration
SOA – Web Services Event Driven ION
Integration of Business FunctionsDepartmental Automation
Message BrokersPoint to point Integrations
2014

IDF – Infor Development Framework
• Power Link – Java based rich client
• Ease of use
• Industry leading customization features
• Small footprint on local client
• Automatic synchronization with server
• IDF Inquiries
• Over 140 prebuilt business objects
• Provides point and click navigation to related information
• Designed to improve back office research and problem solving
• Empowers users to get the information they need
• Shipments to customers in Italy between May 1 and May 15
• Order lines ready to pick greater then $10,000.00
• Customers with open AR greater than $50,000.00 due in 10 days

IDF List Views
• Presented each time you
open an object
• Views
• Controls which columns of
data you see
• Can be modified or selected
from a drop-down list
• Subset
• Controls which rows of data
you see
• Can be modified or selected
from a drop-down list

IDF Views
• Provides the ability to choose the database fields used as columns in a list.
• Can define and save as many views as necessary
• Views can be public or private
• Each user can set their own preferences to default a preferred view

IDF Subsets
• Provides the ability to choose the
records retrieved by a view
• Can define and save as many
subsets as necessary
• Subsets can also be built ad hoc
• Subsets can be compounded
• Subsets can be public or private
and users
• Each user can have their own
• Each user can have preferred
subset

IDF Subsets
Selection with Prompt

IDF Subsets
Selection Results

IDF Subsets
Compound with Item Type

IDF Subset – Results of Item Class
Compounded with Item Type

IDF Enterprise Items
Graphed Inventory

Workbench
Broadcast and receive capabilities

IDF Report Writer Enhancement

EGLi - Enterprise General Ledger
Highlights
• Same robust functionality
of CEA w/ great new UI
• Fully IDF enabled
• Drill down to the original
source
• Drill To the source
transaction from the
journal
• Improved data
management
• Improved journal upload
process
• IFRS compliance
• Change history

EGLi - Enterprise General Ledger
Highlights
• Allows for sorting
and filtering of all
events
• Posted
• Un-posted
• Error
• Unapproved
• Allows for easy
selection of
events to Post,
Approve, or Void

New Account Balance Capabilities
Includes Live YTD Balances for Trial Balance

EGLi - Maintenance History
Who did what and when

EGLi –Manual Journal Upload
Simple Excel Add-in
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• Accounts Payable
• Prevent Invoices from being
voided when selected for payment
processing
• Automate F16 - calculate
discounts during invoice entry
• Prompt on Vendor Search to
include only vendors for the
company entered
• Pass Vendor Number to GRN
Header Inquiry in Invoice Entry
Post Release Functional
Enhancements to V8.3.4
• Regulatory
• Update SOCC to accommodate
Vat Tax for Italy Pack
• Italian Black List Country Support
• Portugal Digital Signature for
Invoices
• Add Portugal Certificate Number
to Invoices

• LX Connectors
• QMS (522, 545, 500)
• Updates for UPC
• Prompt on Vendor Search to
include only vendors for the
company entered
• Shop Order Release
• Excel integration to upload data
and transactions
• Exit Points (Nearly 600)
• All modes to now include Display
and Delete
• Copy from key field parameter on
copy
• New Exit Points
• Company Maintenance
• Tax Code Maintenance
• Shop Order Header
• Shop Order Release
• Billing
• WFi Exit Points

• Miscellaneous
• Purchased Receive all
• Updates for UPC
• Facility Month End in Batch Mode
• Warning on duplicate
item/commodity code
• Remove requirement for a
standard dynamic weight item to
have a weight scan
• V8 variance calculation
• New Macros for INV920 to use
WH, Order, or Book rates
• Security
• Add facility level security to
CST920
• Option in User Security to allow
user to update all Reason Codes
• Multi Language Support (MLS)
• Multiple MLS BMR’s
• See Post 8.3.4 Release Notes for
comprehensive list

ION Architecture

Infor 10 Adoption
Supported ION BOD’s
• Accounting Book Definition
• Accounting Chart
• Accounting Entity
• Advance Ship Notice
• Bill of Materials
• Bill of Resources
• Bill To Party Master *
• Carrier Party
• Cash Receipt
• Chart Of Accounts
• Code Definition
• Contact Master *
• Contract
• Customer Party Master *
• Customer Return
• Receive Delivery *
• Remit to Party Master
• Remittance Advice
• Requisition *
• Sales Order
• Service Consumption *
• Ship from Party Master
• Ship to Party Master *
• Shipment *
• Source System GL Movement
• Source System Journal Entry
• Supplier Invoice
• Supplier Party Master
• Supplier Quote
* Inbound and Outbound
• Financial Calendar
• Financial Party Master
• Inventory Adjustment *
• Inventory Hold *
• Invoice
• Item Master *
• Location
• Payable Transaction
• Person
• Production Order
• Production Receiver
• Purchase Order
• Quote
• Receivable Transaction

Infor10 Dashboards & Analytics
• Integration with ION
and Business Vault
using BODs
• Powered by BI
platform
• Predefined role-based
content

Infor 10 Reporting
• Integration with
ION and
Business Vault
using BODs
• Powered by BI
platform
• Allows for
authoring own
reports

Infor Ming.leTM and 10x bring IDF and
WebTop together as ONE

Infor LX Roadmap
2013 2014 2015 2016 And Beyond
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change by Infor in its sole discretion, with or without notice to you. This document is not a commitment to you in any way and you should not rely
on this document or any of its content in making any decision. Infor is not committing to develop or deliver anything described herein.
 EGLi
 Enhancements to 8.3.4
 LX Extension 2.1.3
 Infor Reporting
 Infor BI
 Inforce
 LX Extension 2.1.4
 EAM ION integration
 Road Warrior
 EGLi –Final Phase
 STTi (Item Type Flexibility)
 Continued In-Context support
 Additional In-Context BI
 Optimization of installation,
configuration, and deployment
 ION Workflow enrichment
 Local.ly adoption
 8.3.5 local uplifts
 Supplier Exchange
 PCM
Infor 10x Release (Feb)
 EGLi enhancements
8.3.5 10x (August)
 Expanded MLS, Security Roles,
Inventory History, Costing – post
by cost type
 Additional WebTop panel redesign
 Japan Pack uplift
 In-Context – Subfile Support
 ISA (Infor Support Agent)
 eCommerce/ Rhythm
 Expanded In-Context support
 EGLi Consolidations
 d/EPM
 Advanced Planning
 Advanced Scheduling
LX 8.4 10x+
 Full Release (foundation for
future feature pack releases)
 Content TBD

Infor LX 10x
10x for LX 8.3.4
• ION Enabled
• Integrations
• Business Vault
• SoHo user experience
• WebTop improvements
• Single sign on
• Ming.le
• Personalized
• In-Context
• Drill back
• Alerts, tasks, posts, feeds, etc….

Infor 10x
Cohesive, upgrade-proof
applications
Micro-
verticals
suites
Deep, last mile features
for industry sub-sectors
Beauty
Compelling user interfaces
and consumer-grade experiences
Infor’s strategy

CREATING
WORK EXPERIENCES
PEOPLE LOVE

Designers
Information
architects
ArtistsStorytellers

User Experience
Basic needs
of enterprise
software
Differentiator
Line organizations
struggle to cross

Infor HCM Infor Analytics Infor HMS Infor Lawson
Infor EAMInfor LXInfor SX.e

Consumer grade interface
Social
enterprise
Mobile
deployment
Consumer
grade
interface
One click
application
navigation
Single
sign on
Workflow
and event
notification
Context tools
and analytics
Social
enterprise

Redesigned Order Entry

Accounts payable invoice entry
before and after 10x

In-Context Enabled Inquiries

Feeds - Follow What is Important to You

Share Business Context Message

Power at your fingertips

Infor LX 8.3.5
•Additional MLS capabilities
•Security - roles
•Frozen inventory balances (historic inquiry)
•Costing – post to GL by cost type
•E-Signature Expansion
•More in-context ability
•Higher resolution UI

Leverage our technology for long term benefits and reduce customizations
Why Upgrade to LX 10x
• Imbedded enhancements
• Review release notes available on Infor Xtreme
• IDF for custom queries and reports
• Extend even further with Enterprise Integrator
• Extension files
• Eliminate future migration and upgrade issues
• Exit points
• Proper externalization of non standard code will set you free
• Technology stack
• Ming.le, ION, Workflows, and Alerts can solve old problems in new ways

Benefit: Industry Leading Low Total
Cost of Ownership
• 40% of the Active Client community is either running or actively
upgrading to ERP LX
• Majority of the BPCS/LX client community have IT budgets of 1%
revenue or under
• IBM Power System
• Deliver IT services faster, with higher quality, and with superior economics
• www.ibm.com/power
• Customers upgrading from early versions of BPCS have
demonstrated the ability to eliminate up to 85-90% of their
modifications
• Functionality available in base
• Reduced need for custom queries and reports
• Exit Points

User Community
• http://www.inforcommunities.com/
• Board has been formed and
ownership of site has been
transferred to them
• Discussion threads
• Enhancement voting – coming
soon
• PowerPoints from Dallas user
conference are available for
download
• Some feature pack 5 details

Conclusion
What does this mean?
• There has never been a more compelling time to upgrade to LX
• We are protecting your ERP investment
• Leverage your current knowledge base
• Focused on your vertical market
• Enable the path to Best In Class
• Tooled to dramatically reduce customizations
• Creation of User Community
• Further realize already low total cost of ownership
• Modernizing the solution in an evolutionary way for maximum user
productivity
• Beauty as a competence, collaborative, mobile

Thank You

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