Through their work with AWS, Infor has been empowered to think like a startup, and to consistently develop and implement disruptive technology in its industry. “AWS gives startups the benefit of being able to operate at the resources that billion dollar companies have, but it also allows billion dollar companies like ourselves to be as nimble as a startup,” said Murphy.

Building on the AWS platform has enabled Infor to see great improvement in their time-to-market and in the speed of customer adoption of the company’s solutions. “Working with AWS has allowed us to provision complete, integrated end-to-end suites for customers in minutes, compared to the weeks it would have taken for us to do that for an on-premise customer,” said Murphy. Further, in developing on AWS, internal Infor development teams are enabled to focus more on developing innovative business solutions, and less on the infrastructure required to support them. “Customers have also reaped the benefit of speed in accelerating time to market. One example is Harsco, a large manufacturing customer, who started a new joint venture (JV) in China. They needed to be up and running in 90 days, but we were able to beat that and they were live on the cloud within 60 days.” said Rose. Abraham Kurian, Divisional Information Officer at Harsco states, “We were able to achieve the goal of bringing an international site up and running well under budget and on-time, thanks to cloud deployment. We are also benefiting from the expert operational knowledge and industry best practices that are built into the standard solution.”

From a growth perspective, Infor’s cloud business has and continues to grow substantially: there are now over 35 million Infor cloud users with 2,600 customers, and the company has seen over a 70 percent growth in SaaS bookings in the past 12 months. “We’ve seen very large growth in this part of the business,” said Murphy.

Finally, Infor has experienced great success in working with the AWS team supporting them, including their Account Manager, Technical Account Manager (TAM), Partner Solutions Architect (SA), and Partner Development Manager (PDM) on the AWS Partner team. “We have outstanding resources who connect us with the AWS resources and expertise we need,” said Rose. The Infor team has worked closely with AWS executive, field, and partner teams across the globe to effectively go-to-market with AWS in different regions. “Our relationship with AWS is strong at all levels, and we expect our relationship with AWS to continue to grow as we adopt more services and expand to additional geographic regions,” said Rose.