INFOR
CLOUD TRANSFORMATIONS Amel Gardner, Infor VP and GM, Middle East and Africa, explains how customers can accelerate their digital transformation journeys with cloud innovations.
How can customers fast-track their digital transformation ambitions with your solutions? Firstly, Infor’s dedicated Value
unique and help make dramatically better decisions, better customer experiences, or better performance within a specific supply chain. To coin
Engineering team (who will be
the phrase: ‘this is where the magic
unveiled for the first time at
happens’ and the leading businesses
GITEX) can demonstrate how
of tomorrow will spend the majority
every organisation’s most critical
of time defining, refining and then
business drivers should be aligned
redefining this last 10%.
with a sound technological strategy.
This approach keeps
This team, which is dedicated to
implementations on track, keeps
maximising Infor investments, helps
teams from wandering off into
to identify, quantify, and realise
uncharted “wish lists” and getting
the true business value that our
lost down blind alleys.
products deliver.
not all business processes are created
Which aspects of digital transformation are customers not paying adequate attention to?
What is the main focus for your company at GITEX 2021?
equal. Businesses need to determine
Although companies feel they are data
which processes are most important
rich, they are not making the most
Infor is using its stand creatively
to differentiate themselves.
of their data potential. Yes, they are
Secondly, we recognise that while our various CloudSuites help provide industry specific business processes,
to feature distinct zones enabling
The first 60% of the implementation
creating masses of data, as they have
visitors from specific industries to
effort involves core industry leading
for years, but failing to unlock its
understand how their organisation
processes that businesses can adopt
true potential. It could even open up
can transform and gain the full
with very little effort. These are the
new revenue streams. There is a huge
advantages of the cloud, positioning
processes that are necessary but do
opportunity if they can deploy more
them to embrace new technologies
not provide differentiation. The goal
predictive and prescriptive analytics,
including artificial intelligence (AI)
for these 60% of the processes is very
not to mention the opportunities with
and machine learning (ML). Infor
simple: adopt technology that delivers
Big Data, AI and ML.
will demonstrate solutions including
industry best practice, as quickly as
its industry-specific CloudSuites for
possible.
industrial manufacturing, distribution,
For the next 30%, businesses need
Can you elaborate on your plans for the regional market over the next few quarters?
and healthcare, with specialists
to focus on the processes that are
available to discuss each of these
differentiators but still fall within
Infor has more than 750 active
solutions. The company will also
the realm of configuration or small
customers in the Middle East and
showcase its enterprise applications
tweaks. While this does demand some
many of them are moving to our
and enterprise resource planning
effort, a business is not starting with
multi-tenant cloud platform (on
(ERP) engines that are at the heart of
a blank sheet, but instead is choosing
AWS). We’re really looking to
its solutions, and which are designed
from options can be quickly tailored
accelerate by quintupling (x5) our
for specific industries. These highly
and configured to best fit their needs.
SaaS business by 2025 in the Middle
robust solutions manage financial
The goal of these first two steps is
East, so this means growing by
and operational tasks, streamlining
to free up more time and capacity to
40% each year (CAGR) which we
processes, eliminating redundancies,
focus on the final 10% of processes
will achieve by focusing on our core
and providing end-to-end visibility.
that are highly differentiating/
industries.
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