Of the many ERP systems Infor has acquired during the past 10 years, nine are categorized by the company as growth ERP products (see Note 1).
Of its large ERP portfolio, 15 products generate approximately 75% of the total Infor revenue. The company announced that it would hire 400 to 500 new developers, which, even allowing for some workforce churn, shows a more aggressive approach to developing new product features. Infor says these new hires are now in place, which should enable it to fulfill its development plans. Yet, while the total number of new developers sounds impressive, it has to be spread across the company's large product portfolio. The product road maps include enhancements to the individual products (e.g., further localization). Inforce leverages the Infor ION framework to build integration between some of Infor's ERP products and salesforce.com's Salesforce CRM (see Note 2). Infor Local.ly, a localization platform based on Infor ION, allows customers to extract data from their core ERP system and transmit it to local financial institutions and government agencies. This supports some aspects of localization capability for where the ERP system is not natively localized.