April 24, 2013
Infor and IBM partner to offer products on IBM SmartCloud
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: James Stirling.
Infor and IBM have announced an agreement which will see Infor offering its enterprise application software on IBM’s public, private and hybrid SmartCloud infrastructure. Infor offers enterprise CRM, ERP, financial management, human resources and business intelligence software. The deal means that Infor’s popular applications such as Infor LN, Infor M3, Infor Lawson, and Infor HCM will be available through IBM’s cloud.
Infor said that many organisations are keen to take advantage of cloud computing to run business critical applications on the cloud, but may require around-the-clock customer service, security and high availability, as well as greater resiliency for mission-critical operations…
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