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MomentumThe force and speed of Infor— revolutionizing enterprise software

Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 73,000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands.

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Awareness and impact

In summary, Infor is trying to become a next-generation enterprise software provider. Although that phrase is overused, in this case, I believe it is accurate. While the history of enterprise software is all about technology and making processes more efficient, the future means innovation, business models, culture change, and helping the enterprise buyer’s workforce evolve toward a more customer-centric world. Infor’s investment strategy is building toward this future.”

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

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“Infor COO: ‘Our customers kick ass’” Michael Krigsman July 18, 2016

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http://www.zdnet.com/article/infor-our-customers-kick-ass/

The investment by Koch Industries into software giant Infor, announced November 17, 2016, shows the willingness of traditional industrial companies to make bets on technology and, specifically, on enterprise software. The $2.5 billion investment will bring Koch into the digital age, expand Infor’s investments in industries, add to Infor’s mergers and acquisitions war chest, enable Infor to make additional marketplace investments, and put Oracle and SAP on watch for replacement at Koch.

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

“Koch Industries invests $2.5 billion into Infor–Infor customers gain a valuable investor in digital transformation”

Ray Wang, Principle Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research, Inc. December 5, 2016

https://www.constellationr.com/research/koch-industries-invests-25-billion-infor

Infor also boasts that its cloud sales have grown from 5% per annum, to over 50% since three years ago. It now has over 7,000 customers in the cloud and has 65 million users. It’s customer base has grown by 20,000 over that time”

“Infor refines its cloud strategy – focus on services, the network and IoT”

Derek du Preez, July 11, 2016

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

http://diginomica.com/2016/07/11/infor-refines-its-cloud-strategy-focus-on-services-the-network-and-iot/

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It’s clear that Infor is on the move. Its investments in its technology platform are increasingly being adopted by its customers.”

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“Perspective: Infor Innovation Summit 2016” Doc # US41243616

Christopher Holmes, John Santagate, Robert Parker, Simon Ellis, Kimberly Knickle, May 26, 2016

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

It was great to see how the acquisitions of late are taking shape into a vision with a purpose – improving workforce productivity which has been stagnant since 2007. We are impressed to see a view on Digital Transformation as well, with a clear process on how Infor can support its customers looking to take this on.”

“Solving the supply chain outside of the four walls: Infor Innovation Summit recap”

Jason Kasper, LNS Research, March 30, 2016

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http://blog.lnsresearch.com/solving-the-supply-chain-outside-of-the-four-walls-infor-innovation-summit-recap

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

While the history of enterprise software is all about

technology (presented as a packaged software) and

making processes more efficient, the future means

innovation, business models, culture change, and

helping the enterprise buyer’s workforce evolve

toward a more customer-centric world. Infor’s invest

strategy is building towards this future.”

In summary, Infor is trying to become

a next generation enterprise software

provider. Although that phrase is over-used,

in this case, I believe it is accurate.”

“Infor COO: ‘Our customers kick ass’”

Michael Krigsman, CXOTalk July 18, 2016

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Read source ›

http://www.zdnet.com/article/infor-our-customers-kick-ass/

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

Though Infor is a distant No. 3 enterprise-software supplier, behind Oracle and SAP, Phillips, 54, has quietly retooled the company’s software, brought in new management, and, not surprisingly, done some big deals.”

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

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“The redemption of Charles Phillips”

Michal Lev-Ram, August 15, 2013

http://fortune.com/2013/08/15/the-redemption-of-charles-phillips/

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Infor is increasingly seen as a threat to Oracle and SAP for its ability to go deep into industry features with its enterprise software.”

“Infor CEO Phillips talks cloud, UI, and industry focus”

Larry Dignan, April 17, 2014

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

http://www.zdnet.com/article/infor-ceo-phillips-talks-cloud-ui-and-industry-focus/

The company believes that the customer relationship is equally as important as the platform it is delivering, and this redefinition of its business and realignment is winning the company a ton of new business”

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

“Infor CEO Phillips talks expansion, diversifying within enterprise”

Tim Hawkins, July 12, 2016

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/07/12/is-it-dessert-topping-or-is-it-floor-wax-how-infor-is-diversifying-within-enterprise-inforum16/

Again, taken as a whole, one must respect four things about the Infor of the last 5 years or so. Infor has:

Made tough choices about which product lines would be the basis for the firm’s future and enhance them fast.

Created a number of new cloud capabilities for customers to access and start the modernization of their application portfolio and business capabilities.

Re-thought the tech stack of the modern software firm. Infor’s clearly chosen to let Amazon AWS be a key computing capability going forward. That’s smart. They’ve also embraced significant numbers of Amazon computing utilities and open source tools to keep costs down for them and their customers. Are simultaneously rolling out, rapidly, major functional and design enhancements across a number of verticals. This last point is quite telling as many large software vendors seem to move with the speed and frequency of the Earth’s tectonic plates. Infor’s moving way faster. Sometimes, it seems to an impatient person like me that they should go faster in some areas but then again, look at the mass they’re moving. Like I said – it’s huge.”

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“Infor’s cloud evolution continues – big enhancements in financials”

Brian Sommer, Tech Ventive April 7, 2016

http://diginomica.com/2016/04/07/infors-cloud-evolution-continues-big-enhancements-in-financials/

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

Oracle seems to be slower compared to the likes of Infor or Epicor when bringing a SaaS based ERP solution to the market.”

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2015/05/01/the-oracle-dog-and-pony-show-a-walk-through-history-and-a-look-forward-to-their-cloud-ambition/

“Can Oracle be more cloud relevant with their new strategy?”

Patrick Moorhead, May 1, 2015

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

“Perspective: Inforum 2016” Doc # US41663516

John Santagate and Simon Ellis August 11, 2016

“The commitment to great customer experience and innovation is driving what was heard as overall positive customer sentiment for the company today and excitement for what is being communicated as the vision for the future.”

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

There truly is a new big player in town. … With very deep pockets and a real commitment to build ‘beautiful’ applications for the 21st century, Infor is one to watch.”

“Infor is for real”

Paula Rosenblum, July 19, 2016

http://www.rsrresearch.com/research/infor-is-for-real?utm_medium=email&utm_source=RPW-7-19-16&utm_campaign=RPW_7_19_16

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

One of the things that sets business software company Infor’s apart from its rivals is its four-year-old creative division that designs the user interfaces for the company’s inventory management, commerce, logistics, and financial management systems.”

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

“Here’s upstart Infor’s latest strategy for competing with Oracle and SAP”

Heather Clancy, July 11, 2016

http://fortune.com/2016/07/11/infor-hook-loop-digital-design/

Infor is definitely taking an aggressive position and is a top tier provider of solutions for a number of industries, particularly those for which it is rolling out the CloudSuite products. One can definitely say that Infor will continue to be a major player in the enterprise software space for many years to come, a statement that wasn’t as likely to come true only five short years ago.”

“Infor’s 6-year, $3-billion journey to the cloud”

Ted Rohm, TEC September 2, 2016

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https://www3.technologyevaluation.com/research/article/infors-6-year-3-billion-journey-to-the-cloud.html

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

… the progress was substantial and existing Infor customers should take comfort in that they have a path to Digital Transformation and prospects should take note of Infor and consider them in their future strategy.”

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“Inforum 2016: bringing manufacturing to Manhattan,”

Dan Miklovic & Jason Kasper, July 2016

http://blog.lnsresearch.com/inforum-2016-bringing-manufacturing-to-manhattan

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

In conjunction with H&L Digital, Infor Services now offer customers a complete set of capabilities to help guide their overall digital transformation. Infor is going beyond traditional software technology implementation, to support customers through all aspects of their digital journey.”

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“Infor COO: ‘Our customers kick ass’”

Michael Krigsman, CXOTalk July 18, 2016

http://www.zdnet.com/article/infor-our-customers-kick-ass/

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

In order for customers to adopt the next generation business applications, Infor’s customer engagement strategy needs to be more consultative than purely about deploying software and then walking away. Its push to help digitize the enterprise requires customers to have greater connection with technology. Infor is focusing on delivering technology that doesn’t just gather and analyze data, but helps customers use it. As a result, Infor is developing services that guide customers along the path to the digital and networked enterprise.”

“Infor lays out its vision”

Seth Lippincott, June 2016

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

Over the last few years, we have seen Infor re-invent its products, and, to some degree, the entire organization. Infor has succeeded in creating a modern platform architecture and best-in-class applications that compete with the best solutions in the marketplace.”

“Infor’s 6-year, $3-billion journey to the cloud”

Ted Rohm, TEC September 2, 2016

https://www3.technologyevaluation.com/research/article/infors-6-year-3-billion-journey-to-the-cloud.html

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

Infor has seen a surge in customers with SaaS growth rates north of 600 percent in the last quarter. Over the last nine months, SaaS growth was 400 percent.”

“ Infor is gunning for Oracle and SAP by focusing on industry specific app suites.”

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

“Infor ramps cloud strategy, eyes next gen experience, apps”

Larry Dignan, April 1, 2015

http://www.zdnet.com/article/infor-ramps-cloud-strategy-eyes-next-gen-experience-apps/

“A manufacturing focus at Inforum 2016”

Aleksey Osintsev, TEC August 29, 2016

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https://www3.technologyevaluation.com/research/article/a-manufacturing-focus-at-inforum-2016.html

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After following Infor for quite long time, I can say that it is exciting to see all the changes the vendor has been performing within recent years. Industry-based software products, easy-to-use common user interfaces, flexible, agile and extensible architecture, and, of course, cloud capabilities have brought the company to the next level and made it much more competitive. Moreover, Infor is indeed quickly becoming not just a seller of certain business applications—it is more and more a technology company providing a full scope of services that are capable of bringing customers into the digital space and providing new value to their IT.”

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

When Charles Phillips and the team came in, Infor took a significantly different approach to development and delivery of their solutions, including technology that is spread across all the solutions, as well as their industry focus. It seems to be working well, especially in the cloud, since the vendor now has the technology to utilize all the solutions together.”

“A manufacturing focus at Inforum 2016”

Aleksey Osintsev, TEC August 29, 2016

https://www3.technologyevaluation.com/research/article/a-manufacturing-focus-at-inforum-2016.html

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

As Infor bucks the trend with reliance on Amazon for the IaaS and PaaS layer, the Koch investment accelerates funding for what customers really want– industry apps…. The result– a dream deal that benefits all.”

The bottom line: Investment creates win-win for Infor customers and Koch Industries.”

“Koch Industries invests $2.5 billion into Infor–Infor customers gain a valuable investor in digital transformation”

Ray Wang, Principle Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research, Inc. December 5, 2016

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

https://www.constellationr.com/research/koch-industries-invests-25-billion-infor

“Koch Industries invests $2.5 billion into Infor– Infor customers gain a valuable investor in digital transformation”

Ray Wang, Principle Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research, Inc. December 5, 2016

https://www.constellationr.com/research/koch-industries-invests-25-billion-infor

Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

Constellation expects Infor’s customers and prospects will see a win-win from the deal. The investment reaffirms Infor’s thesis of building out industry-specific applications at a time when most of the tech giants have focused on competing for end-to-end cloud dominance at the infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) level.”

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Charles Phillips has successfully positioned Infor as the go-to ERP vendor to get specific industry micro-vertical functionality, and if he can transition that positioning into the cloud with subscription-based pricing, that’s a threat that Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft will have to take seriously.”

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Infor Momentum | Awareness and impact

“Infor’s CloudSuite for AWS: What it means to IBM I customers”

Alex Woodie, April 1, 2014

http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs040114-story03.html

ITJungle

Infor CloudSuite™

Infor has forged a similar partnership with British building materials distributor Travis Perkins… The contract calls for the company to use Infor CloudSuite as the foundation of the “biggest system change” in its history. It will span more than 2,000 locations across the United Kingdom.”

“Here’s upstart Infor’s latest strategy for competing with Oracle and SAP”

Heather Clancy, July 11, 2016

http://fortune.com/2016/07/11/infor-hook-loop-digital-design/

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Infor Momentum | Infor CloudSuite

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…[Infor’s] vertical specific applications and its investment in Hook & Loop (the company’s digital agency) that were key differentiators for it winning some of its bigger cloud deals. This makes sense to me, as these are key capabilities that a lot of the other vendors are unable to go to market with”

“Infor cloud chief explains how she is ridding Infor of its on-premise image,”

Derek du Preez, July 20, 2016

http://diginomica.com/2016/07/20/infor-cloud-chief-explains-how-she-is-ridding-infor-of-its-on-premise-image/

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Infor Momentum | Infor CloudSuite

Charles E. Phillips, the head of Infor, said his company is ‘essentially going all in’ on a cloud-based enterprise software strategy, changing its compensation to sales people and offering to take all of a customer’s data over to A.W.S. from their existing computers for $55,000.”

“Cloud computing’s watershed week”

Quentin Hardy, March 29, 2014

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/cloud-computings-watershed-week/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_&_r=0

Infor Momentum | Infor CloudSuite

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It used to be suppliers of enterprise solutions talked about a single version of the truth being something that resided in enterprise applications, but with supply chains depending on significant collaboration across multiple partners, that perspective is outdated. Now the Infor Commerce Cloud can provide the “truth” of what transactions and shipments have occurred, when they have occurred, and whether they have proceeded as they were supposed to.”

“A new supply chain solution Is prominently featured at Infor’s Inforum 2016 conference

Steve Banker, July 13, 2016

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2016/07/13/a-new-supply-chain-solution-is-prominently-featured-at-infors-inforum-2016-conference/#1b6c6e25340c

Infor Momentum | Infor CloudSuite

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Business software vendor Infor is seeing “explosive” growth in its cloud business.”

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“Cloud takes off for Infor”

Stephen Withers July 14, 2016

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/cloud/73824-cloud-takes-off-for-infor.html

Infor Momentum | Infor CloudSuite

Perhaps the biggest change has come from Infor, which has moved its entire application stack to open source software, and now offers its products both on-premises and as a cloud service, hosted on Amazon Web Services.”

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Infor Momentum | Infor CloudSuite

“How the cloud changes enterprise tech”

Michael J. Miller, April 24, 2014

forwardthinking.pcmag.com/none/323009-how-the-cloud-changesenterprise-tech

User experience

This [Infor software] is the key tool to driving business day-to-day and driving benefits back to our customers.”

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“Whole Foods to build new ERP system for ‘single view’ of product data”

Steven Norton, October 15, 2015

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/10/14/whole-foods-to-build-new-erp-system-for-single-view-of-product-data/

Infor Momentum | User experience

Yes, a pretty UI is great, but the way [Hook & Loop] are now thinking, an algo-driven design might handle more of the headaches for you, freeing you up to slice and dice numbers, or search Google-style for elusive data or buying patterns. Oh, and serve customers better by providing them with relevant info in real-time.”

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“Inside the enterprise UX revolution – a day at Infor’s Hook & Loop”

Jon Reed, January 23, 2015

http://diginomica.com/2015/01/23/inside-the-enterprise-ux-revolution-a-day-at-infor-hook-loop/

Infor Momentum | User experience

Historically, consumer software and enterprise software was a classic case of beauty and the beast, that is until Infor, one of the largest software companies, came along with the mission to differentiate itself in the marketplace by creating business software that is, dare they say, beautiful.”

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Infor Momentum | User experience

“Why can’t business applications be as beautiful as consumer software?”

Vala Afshar, November 15, 2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vala-afshar/why-cant-business-applica_b_5822806.html

Hook & Loop, Infor’s Manhattan-based internal creative agency is at the heart of every new piece of software that Infor provides. They deliver modern user experience platforms for modern users. This doesn’t just mean that the applications run on mobile devices, but that they are mobile device ready at their heart.”

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“Infor to re-invent Retail”

Steve Brooks, October 16, 2015

https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2015/10/16/infor-to-re-invent-retail/3/

Infor Momentum | User experience

[The digital transformation] team will also focus on enabling businesses to build customer loyalty and to use data not just to cut costs but instead to increase revenue.”

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“Surviving disruption: it’s not about advertising or digital ideas”

Elizabeth Redman, July 19, 2016

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/surviving-disruption-its-not-about-advertising-or-digital-ideas/news-story/d6d8db6f2cc0c41504938181f0a76c60

Infor Momentum | User experience

Additional momentum

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Infor Momentum | Additional momentum

Media coverage has tripledin 4 years (FY13-FY16)

Charles Phillips discusses

Infor’s disruptive business

software and building

a better business cloud

with Amazon, on CNBC’s

“Squawk Alley” segment.

“Disrupting Business Software”

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000368688

Charles Phillips

discusses Infor’s market

position and its cloud

applications in China

with Bloomberg’s Angie

Lau on “First Up”.

“Move to Cloud Is a Major Opportunity: Infor CEO”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-01-23/move-to-cloud-is-a-major-opportunity-infor-ceo

Charles Phillips sits

in as a guest host for

“Bloomberg Surveillance”

in January, his second

time guest hosting onthe

network.

“Bloomberg Surveillance”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/e69d4e5d-9b7e-4efa-8557-e660375492ac

Infor CEO, Charles

Phillips discussed

Infor’s growth and the

overall health of the

technology sector.

“Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo”

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3570603075001/the-health-of-new-tech/?playlist_id=937116503001#playlist_id=937116503001&sp=show-clips

Infor Momentum | Additional momentum

Traffic to infor.com FY13 through FY16

Infor Momentum | Additional momentum

The new infor.com

September 2015: Began to filter out spam traffic, which reduces visit numbers by 10%

Note: We shifted fiscal years in May 2015; to keep the comparison equal, the chart shows the historic grouping of fiscal years

There is nothing ‘magic’

about the Nucleus Value

Matrix, which measures

value based on usability

and functionality. Three Infor

products showed great value

and momentum.”

Infor products named leaders in the Nucleus Value Matrix

Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President of Research, Nucleus Research

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WFM VALUE MATRIX 2016

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LeaderFacilitator

SumTotalSystems

ADP

KronosInfor

Ceridian

WorkforceSoftwareWorkforce

Systems

Peoplematter

Paylocity

Epicor HCM

Paycom

Paychex

Paycor

Infusionsoft

SAP HybrisCloud forCustomer

Pegasystems

Bpm’online

Base

Acumatica

Infor CRM

VeevaSystems

Salesforce.com

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Oracle SiebelCRM

NexJ

SAP

CRMNext

Sage CRM

Zoho

MaximizerSoftware

Oracle CX Cloud

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CRM VALUE MATRIX 2H2016

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LeaderFacilitator

IMS HealthNexxus

Hubspot

Sugar CRM

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Infor Momentum | Additional momentum

Infor products named leaders in the Nucleus Value Matrix

Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President of Research, Nucleus Research

Infor Momentum | Additional momentum

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ANALYTICS VALUE MATRIX 2016

Core Provider

LeaderFacilitator

InformationBuilders

IBM

SAS

Infor

BirstMicrosoft

JinfonetSoftware

PentahoPeriscope Data

TIBCO

Oracle

Alteryx

Antiva

SAP

Board

Qlik

Domo

Yellowfin

GoodData

SalesforceTableau

Logi Analytics MicroStrategy

SAP Business One

MicrosoftDynamics GP

Sage ERP X3

SAPBusinessByDesign

Aptean ERP

IFS

SAP

OraclePeopleSoft

Oracle JDEdwards

Infor LN

UNIT4

Epicor

OracleERP Cloud

MicrosoftDynamics AX

InforSyteline Oracle

E-Business Suite

Infor M3SYSPRO

NetSuite

Deltek

FinancialForceERP

Qualiac Acumatica

MicrosoftDynamics NAV

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Functionality

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ERP VALUE MATRIX 2H2015

Core Provider

LeaderFacilitator

Plex IQMS EnterpriseIQ

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Functionality

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HCM VALUE MATRIX 2016

Core Provider

LeaderFacilitator

FinancialForceHCM

Ultimate

Paycom

JinfonetSoftware

PeopleFluent

Kronas

Oracle HCMCloud

Ascentis

SAPSuccessFactors

Snagajob(PeopleMatter)

PeopleStrategyInforSumTotal

(Skillsoft)

Ceridian

Workday

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