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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:27:09 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | The ERP vendor rolls out on-demand versions of a number of applications and announces further upgrades based on an SOA infrastructure. |
| Keywords: | Infor software, on demand ERP |
LAS VEGAS — Infor today jumped forcefully into the software-as-a-service market, making available a subscription-priced SaaS ERP service as well as two other new SaaS products: an expense management service and an enterprise asset management service.
At its annual Inforum customer conference here, Infor also provided more details on its plans to evolve its current lineup of products — mostly added through acquisition — toward a modern, SOA-enabled architecture that officials said will enable businesses to become more agile.
Separately, Infor Chairman and CEO Jim Schaper today said that despite current economic uncertainty, Infor is financially “very healthy.” While the privately owned company does not expect to be immune from the kind of downturn in the enterprise software market that recently struck competitor SAP, Infor is, to some extent, “insulated” from the downturn, Schaper said, pointing to its average order size of about $50,000, much lower than its main competitors.
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