Infor recently announced plans for its annual global user conference, Inforum 2007, to be held from 9 to 12 September 2007, in Las Vegas at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre.
This year's theme, "Enterprising U", celebrates the enterprising qualities of Infor's more than 70 000 customers, and highlights the networking and learning opportunities at the four-day event.
"Inforum 2007 attracts Infor customers, partners and prospects from around the world who come to learn about new business opportunities, collaborate on Infor's business-specific solutions, and get the inside story on the latest product roadmaps for their solutions," said Gavin Kilfoil, regional manager, sub-Saharan Africa, Infor.
"Attendees representing virtually every industry will discover how Infor's solutions enable businesses of all sizes to be more enterprising and adapt to the rapid changes of a global marketplace."
Customers, partners and Infor representatives will lead hundreds of educational sessions on topics such as best practices, tips and techniques, product seminars, business strategy and industry trends. Infor solutions will be featured in tracks customised for users, providing insight and in-depth information on how customers can optimise their solutions to solve complex business challenges and empower their business.
Inforum 2007 attendees can learn about new trends and directions from industry leaders, attend hundreds of "how to" sessions, participate in breakout sessions to share knowledge and ideas, and test-drive new software solutions. Best of all, customers can connect with their peers to discover new techniques for solving challenges and best practices for their business.
Inforum 2007 will offer hands-on demonstrations of Infor and partner solutions as part of the Solutions Expo. Here, customers will have the opportunity to interact with Infor's domain experts and technology partners, and participate in technical demonstrations of Infor's business-specific software solutions. With Infor's products distributed locally and throughout sub-Saharan Africa by Softworx, an EOH company, Inforum 2007 thus proves to be the perfect September business destination for many South Africans.
Throughout Inforum 2007, networking opportunities will allow customers a chance to connect with their peers. New to the programme this year:
* ConnectAtInforum.com, an online networking site that brings together like-minded customers prior to and during the conference;
* Enterprising Square, a large networking area organised into Infor customer communities designed to encourage idea sharing between sessions and other Inforum activities; and
* Parallel Path, informally moderated, unsupervised sessions led by Infor customers that provide a platform for discussing common issues and needs.
Infor Open SOA, the company's service-oriented architecture strategy, will be a hot topic at Inforum. Attendees will gain first-hand insight into the solution interoperability, innovation and evolution that Infor Open SOA provides across all product lines, including the near-term plan for enablement of solutions, and how to take advantage of this framework that offers business innovation without disruption.
Jim Schaper, Chief Operating Officer Robin Pederson and Chief Technology Officer Bruce Gordon will give keynote presentations during the conference. For more information regarding the conference and to register, visit http://www.inforum2007.com.
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Softworx is a successful South African business applications company that prides itself on being able to deliver world-class products to its extensive customer base, which includes a number of Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Softworx supports clients in industries ranging from manufacturing, retail, distribution and financial to supporting various government entities. The company is dedicated to marketing, implementing and providing support for its range of complementary software products to medium and large enterprises that require effective solutions to optimise their business processes.
Softworx has positioned itself as a leading provider of business applications in South Africa specialising in end-to-end business solutions. The company prides itself on being able to deliver true value to its customers through the implementation of business solutions based on a powerful combination of leading-edge products and consultancy. As a wholly owned subsidiary of EOH, Softworx has increased the number of services and products that can be offered to its customers from within the group.
EOH
EOH is a technology and business solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.
EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:
Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications including ERP, CRM, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems (MES).
Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education.
Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition, EOH offers full business process outsourcing (BPO) services.
EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and Botswana, and operates in the rest of Africa.
Infor
Infor delivers business-specific software to enterprising organisations. With experience built in, Infor's solutions enable businesses of all sizes to be more enterprising and adapt to the rapid changes of a global marketplace. With more than 70 000 customers, Infor is changing what businesses expect from an enterprise software provider. For additional information, visit www.infor.com.
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