Infor promotes Keith Deane to president of EMEA

Issued by Watt Communications & G Watt Design for EOH
Johannesburg, 11 Jul 2007

Infor recently announced that Keith Deane has been promoted to president of Infor's operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Deane was formerly the senior vice-president sales of EMEA. In his new role, Deane will be responsible for sales and services for all Infor products in EMEA, fostering continued growth of the company's substantial footprint across the region, which makes up nearly half of the company's total business.

Since joining Infor in 2005, Deane has led Infor's European operations, helping grow business in the region from around $200 million in revenue to almost $1 billion.

An industry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience, he began his IT career in 1978 as an analyst/programmer, then became interested in the commercial side of the industry, moving into sales and management positions for leading IT companies over the next two decades. He joined Infor from WebMethods, where he was senior vice-president. Prior to that, he was vice-president and general manager with BEA Systems.

"Infor has consistently grown its presence in EMEA by focusing on customer needs and delivering business-specific solutions for the industries in which they operate," said Deane. "As we grow our business in the region, it's important that we provide a local presence and experienced people to support our customers and their extended enterprises wherever they are."

"Infor is coming off the strongest fiscal year in our company's history, and the company continues to grow globally," says Jim Schaper, Infor's chairman and CEO. "We are very pleased to have Keith Deane at the forefront of our business in one of our strongest markets."

Across EMEA, Keith Deane is supported by a number of regional or senior vice-presidents, including Trevor Smith for UK and Ireland, Benoit de la Tour for southern Europe, Josef Eisenkolb for Central Europe, Wolfgang Kobek for Infor's independent business units in EMEA, Steven Rees-Pullman for the overall channel business in EMEA, Bob Fedorciow for global accounts, Ian Walker for human capital management and customer relationship management solutions and Thibault de Clisson for professional services in EMEA.

With Infor's products distributed locally and throughout sub-Saharan Africa by Softworx, this EOH company is looking forward to Deane's contribution and wishes him every success in his new role.

Softworx

Delivering business solutions with a difference

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 business and technology 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.

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 services.

EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa 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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