headquarters new york city new york united states of america area served global key people charles phillips ceo duncan angove pres. stephan scholl pres. pam murphy coo revenue us 2.8 billion 2016 1 owner golden gate capital partners summit partners number of employees 15 000 2016 1 website www.infor.com infor is a multi national privately held united states based enterprise software company . 2 headquartered in new york city 3 infor currently focuses on business applications for organizations in diverse industries delivered via cloud computing saas . 4 originally focused on software ranging from financial systems and enterprise resource planning erp to supply chain and customer relationship management 5 6 in 2010 infor began to focus on software for micro vertical industry niches 7 as well as user friendly software design . infor deploys its cloud applications through amazon web services 7 and various open source platforms . 8 9 infor has acquired over forty other software companies since its 2002 founding 10 as agilysis 11 for example acquiring geac erp 11 for usd 1 billion 11 lawson software for usd 2 billion 12 13 and gt nexus for 675 million . 14 infor had around 58 million cloud users as of july 2016 15 as well as around 90 000 corporate customers overall . 1 infor is active in 200 countries 16 and territories with around 15 000 employees . 1 infor s customers have included bausch & lomb ferrari heineken 10 wyndham hotels hershey entertainment and resorts boskalis ebsco legacy health and best western international among others . 4 contents 1 company history 1.1 founding and early acquisitions 2002 2009 1.2 new management and move 2010 2013 1.3 micro vertical focus and pivot to cloud 2013 2014 1.4 gt nexus acquisition 2015 2016 2 software 3 programs and divisions 3.1 hook and loop 3.2 infor partner network ipn 3.3 dynamic science labs 3.4 education alliance program 4 philanthropy 5 accolades 6 see also 7 references 8 external links company history edit founding and early acquisitions 2002 2009 edit see also mapics geac computer corporation and ssa global infor was founded in june 2002 11 under the name agilsys in malvern pennsylvania . 11 with 1 300 customers to start 11 and a focus on enterprise software 10 the company was constructed through a series of acquisitions 10 11 led by private equity backers golden gate capital and summit partners . 17 in december 2002 agilisys international acquired brain ag 18 followed by the acquisition of future three 19 the following june . 20 agilisys moved its headquarters to alpharetta in the atlanta metropolitan area 21 and in february 2004 acquired infor business solutions a german company headquartered in friedrichsthal saar germany . 22 daly.commerce 23 and lilly software associates were both acquired by agilisys in early 2004 24 and in september 2004 agilisys changed its name to infor global solutions . 25 in february 2005 infor acquired mapics for around us d 347 million 11 and subsequently acquired geac erp 11 in 2006 26 for usd 1 billion . 11 after a lawsuit filed in may 2006 attempted to halt ssa global s merger with infor unless certain shareholder demands were met 27 infor later completed the purchase and integrated the company . 28 golden gate s early push for acquisitions resulted in infor having 17 500 customers by the summer of 2006 . 11 also that year infor began rewriting industry specific applications into up to date . net and java based application providers . 29 new management and move 2010 2013 edit after several acquisitions 30 31 in october 2010 infor s board of directors hired a new management team composed of four senior executives from oracle corporation all four of whom joined infor on the same day . charles phillips was appointed ceo pam murphy was appointed chief operating officer coo and duncan angove and stephan school became co presidents . 10 phillips established a new strategic direction as ceo . 10 in order to gain market share on oracle and sap infor also focused on providing applications with user friendly interfaces 32 while continuing to rewrite applications into new code . 29 the company acquired erp rival lawson software for usd 2 billion in 2011 . 12 13 infor launched its infor10 line of products in september 2011 . within the products were the ion middleware suite and a new user interface . 33 in the summer of 2012 infor relocated its headquarters from alpharetta georgia 21 to new york city citing the availability of engineers and designers in silicon alley 34 investment in the technology educational sector by a consortium of universities and the proximity to customers . 21 with several hundred employees remaining in georgia infor s new loft style offices at 641 avenue of the americas in manhattan were designed with the intent of promoting collaboration and transparency . 21 infor acquired groupe laurier cim in august 2012 . 35 on december 4 2012 infor announced it had acquired orbis global which sold saas based marketing resource management software . infor integrated orbis global s technology into its own customer experience product suite . 36 37 micro vertical focus and pivot to cloud 2013 2014 edit see also certpoint systems after the 2010 management changes 34 infor began specializing in micro verticals purpose building its software to meet the needs f customers in niche industries . arguing that similiar businesses have similar software needs 33 ceo phillips explained in january 2012 that the food and beverage industry for example is made up of smaller micro verticals such as bakers butchers and breweries each of which have unique needs . 34 in contrast to many of its competitors infor designs software with the intent that companies can use the programs immediately without consultation or customization . 34 as of 2013 infor continued to rework industry specific applications from older software languages into more widely used . net and java programming languages . 29 on april 2 2013 infor announced the acquisition of certpoint systems inc. a saas based learning technologies company . 38 39 on may 16 2013 40 infor acquired tdci inc. 40 41 and by late 2013 infor had launched 300 new products 42 and hired 1 500 new engineers since 2010 . 43 among other companies infor acquired peopleanswers in january 2014 . 44 advancements in cloud computing 34 enabled infor to integrate applications into suites for specific industries and sell them as software as a service saas . 45 infor debuted its infor cloudsuite product which is delivered exclusively through amazon web services aws in 2014 . explained the seattle times infor is developing its run the business applications which are tailored to such industries as automotive aerospace and hospitality to be run on aws . 7 cloudsuite is designed to integrate software solutions intended for micro vertical industries . 46 infor also formed partnerships with red hat and enterprisedb to offer an open source postgresql stack that year 9 and infor s net income in 2014 equaled usd 121.7 million . 47 gt nexus acquisition 2015 2016 edit see also gt nexus infor is the amalgamation of more than 40 software acquisitions brought together by private equity backers golden gate capital and summit partners . beginning in 2002 golden gate began assembling the company to provide the kind of nuts and bolts enterprise software that has proved one of the hottest sectors in tech . under ceo phillips the company has surged . it now sells its wares to more than 70 000 corporations including clients bausch & lomb ferrari and heineken . fortune on august 15 2015 10 the company saw around a 300 percent increase in saas bookings in 2015 with saas revenue up that year up around 60 percent . new clients that year included wyndham hotels ferrari the san francisco municipal transport agency hershey entertainment and resorts boskalis ebsco legacy health best western international and kaman industrial technologies among others . by july 2015 infor had around 45 million users signed up to use its cloud computing software . 4 on august 11 2015 infor announced its upcoming acquisition of gt nexus for 675 million . at the time gt nexus was the world s largest cloud based global commerce platform 14 48 with customers such as nike inc. adidas ag home depot inc. and procter & gamble co. 49 and 100 billion of trade in direct goods conducted each year though its network . 48 explained bloomberg the acquired technology allows infor customers to leave elaborate business management systems that run at headquarters untouched while supplying those clients plants with programs specialized by industry and delivered via cloud computing . 49 infor acquired predictix in july 2016 15 at which point infor related that it had more than 58 million users in the infor cloud . 15 active in 200 countries and territories with around 15 000 employees 16 infor is currently the third largest enterprise technology provider in the world . 10 software edit since ceo charles phillips joined infor in 2010 the company has focused on creating applications that result in a positive user experience among other factors such as efficiency . 12 50 infor deploys its applications primarily on the amazon web services cloud 51 and open source platforms . 52 primary software lines developed by infor name type description infor ion integration platform launched in 2011 53 infor s intelligent open network ion is an xml based integration platform . 53 it is described as a middleware stack designed to help infor customers integrate their infor erp systems with other infor products 53 for example infor s mobile and social media products motion and mingle . 53 ion is also a component of business vault infor s windows based analytics tool . 53 infor xi product line infor xi 54 refers to the latest versions of infor s premiere offerings with user experiences designed by new york city professionals to give all of infor s products a cohesive feel as well as improve efficiency and integration between products . 55 the first version of infor xi debuted in 2014 at infor s 56 inforum user conference . 56 57 infor mongoose application development framework infor mongoose is an application development framework intended to allow customers to modify their infor applications . the program is written such that users do not need to know programming languages or a source code . it can also be used to build applications for example simple web components or more complex erp systems . 58 programs and divisions edit hook and loop edit infor created hook & loop in 2012 as an internal creative agency of writers designers developers and filmmakers with the intent of designing user friendly and aesthetically pleasing software . 59 the hook & loop agency was established in new york city with the initial goal of building a new ui to work across the infor 10x product line . with the overhaul dubbed soho the goal was establishing a holistic user experience with a unified design . 60 the agency was founded with five people and by 2014 had 80 employees . 61 infor partner network ipn edit the infor partner network ipn is a global network intended to provide business solutions to customers using infor products . 62 as of 2016 infor stated it had 700 partners through the program with 125 in north america . 63 the program supports members of the infor partner network 64 in various ways 63 including training certification and funds . 64 products sold through the partner network include infor cloudsuite industrial and infor cloudsuite business . 63 partners also sell infor ion and the social collaboration platform infor ming.le 63 as well as infor erp products for distribution and management for example programs such as infor syteline infor ln infor xa infor visual infor m3 infor distribution sx.e and infor distribution