Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70 000 customers, has announced a collaboration with VMware through which the parties confirmed the compatibility of Infor's ERP suite with a variety of VMware products, including VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director and VMware vFabric. Through this collaboration, Infor and VMware jointly developed a reference architecture for Infor10 ION and Infor LN that provides customers with an enterprise-grade ERP system that can be used as a virtual appliance, incorporating built-in security, performance management and monitoring.
The Infor LN virtual appliance is capable of being deployed to on-premise infrastructures or cloud quickly, and coupled with the open standards and open source-based components of VMware vFabric, the virtual appliance helps customers reduce deployment costs and operation expenses to help lower their overall cost of ownership.
"Infor is continually working to enable our customers to run faster and smarter by developing innovative applications that help improve business processes while simultaneously focusing on helping them lower IT infrastructure costs and increase agility," said Ali Shadman, SVP, Business Cloud, Infor. "Collaborating with VMware enables us to provide customers with a robust ecosystem with market-leading virtualisation tools coupled with the intrinsic expertise of Infor and VMware right out-of-the-box."
By making its applications compatible with VMware infrastructure, Infor enables customers to take advantage of the many benefits of virtualisation and cloud. As a result, Infor customers are better able to consolidate IT infrastructures, gain efficiency and cost reduction, and attain a higher degree of deployment portability. Since Infor products support cloud and on-premise infrastructures using the same code base to provide identical functionality, collaborating with VMware is another way Infor helps customers lower the cost of deployment with scalability, performance and reliability.
"Infor's customers can use their products to control operations and drive efficiencies," said Parag Patel, vice-president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. "By collaborating with VMware, Infor customers looking to reduce costs and speed time-to-market can leverage the efficiencies of a robust virtualised infrastructure."
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