Working in Unison: Infor’s Channel Partner Summit 2010

Today marks the start one of my favorite weeks of the year at Infor, our annual Channel Partner Summit. As I’ve said before, our channel partners are critical to the collaborative customer relationships that set Infor apart from other business software vendors. This opportunity to come together face-to-face is essential to fostering a strong channel program and bringing maximum value to our customers.

There has been a lot of attention paid to the success of our channel recruitment drive, but recruiting new partners takes a backseat to the investments that we make in our existing partners. The Channel Partner Summit enables us to build close personal ties with our partners while also providing the education and sales tools that arm them for success. The fact that we have record attendance at this year’s Summit is testament to the value this close relationship brings to our partners.

This has been an exciting year for Infor — the new products and developments we are offering make our partners a lethal force in the mid-market business application space:

• By integrating the rich functionality of Infor's applications with intuitive Microsoft technologies, we provide mid-size businesses with fast and affordable solutions that meet their functionality needs and are simple to use.
• Infor ION services enable companies of all sizes to benefit from the advanced application integration, business process management, and shared data reporting that had previously been available only to large enterprises.
• Infor24 provides customers the option to deploy some of our most popular and robust solutions in the cloud, providing an optimum mix of rich functionality and deployment flexibility.

The Channel Partner Summit gives our partners quality time to meet with Infor development executives to learn best practices to help customers get the most out of their software investment. In addition, our CMO and marketing executives present ways to help partners market their business and grow their customer base and bottom line.

If you are an Infor Channel Partner, I look forward to the opportunity to meet with you personally this week, and if you aren’t an Infor Channel Partner - what are you waiting for?

Posted By Dennis Michalis, Corporate Senior Vice President