Infor Collaborates With VMware to Expand Open Source ERP Options

Infor Collaborates With VMware to Expand Open Source ERP Options PR Newswire MUMBAI, November 29, 2012 MUMBAI, November 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor LN and ION on Open Source Stack Helps Provide Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Faster Time to Deployment Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today 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.