Charles Phillips and Infor: Enabling healthcare insights

Charles Phillips leads Infor, one of the largest providers of enterprise applications and services to the world’s top aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical, apparel, machinery, and financial services companies. The company also caters to state and local government agencies, providing them with industry-specific applications to help improve operations, and a flexible deployment options that allow them to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both.

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Infor provides healthcare professionals with analytic information about the industry with its Lawson Analytics for Healthcare service, which includes prebuilt data models to make business intelligence affordable to healthcare organizations of all sizes. The product provides the benefits of a major business intelligence project at a fraction of the cost and time, enabling customers to extract data from diverse applications.

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Through the Lawson Analytics for Healthcare Service, Charles Phillips and Infor help fill the information gap that is apparent in the healthcare industry - 44% of 700 healthcare professionals that were surveyed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS12) reported to have little or no access to analytic information. With this service, a hospital can see supply and drug expenses as a percentage of net patient revenue or compare productivity by department, analyze the total budget remaining on all ongoing IT projects, or find out if the organization is meeting its supplier diversity objectives. Data about healthcare-specific KPIs in financial management, labor productivity, project accounting, and supply chain can help healthcare organizations measure, improve, and monitor financial and operational performance.

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Charles Phillips: Helping keep the past for the future

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Charles Phillips may be gearing his and his customers’ company for the future, but he also helps preserve the legacy of the past. The Infor CEO takes part in the American Museum of Natural History’s endeavor to preserve and disseminate knowledge of time and civilizations long gone, and make them available for future generations.

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), found in Manhattan, is one of the largest museums worldwide. Established in 1869, it currently holds over 32 million specimens and employs a staff of more than 200 individuals. The museum sponsors over 100 field expeditions each year, and it receives up to 5 million visits annually.

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Charles Phillips serves on the museum’s Board of Trustees, and helps support AMNH’s maintenance and operations. The museum showcases some of its collections in several exhibition halls, including:

• Akeley Hall of African Mammals

This hall was named after Carl Akeley, its creator and designer. The exhibition features some of the results of Akeley’s African expeditions.

• Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites

This hall contains some of the world’s finest meteorite specimens, including a section of the Cape York meteorite found in Greenland.

• Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals

This features a large number of unusual geological specimens.

• Bernard and Anne Spitzer Hall of Human Origins

This hall presents an exhibition of human evolution, and features species such as Australopithecines and Neanderthals.

• Fossil Halls

True to its name, this hall features fossils of ancient animals including dinosaurs and extinct mammals.

The AMNH also features a planetarium and a library which house some of the world’s greatest natural history collections. Additionally, it has several nature dioramas that attempt to recreate natural environments.

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Charles Phillips: Infor enhances ION

Charles Phillips, Infor’s CEO, is recognized in the industry for his capacity to tap opportunities to better his company’s products and services, and its relationship with its expanding clientele. In characteristic Phillips fashion, Infor recently revealed an enhancement in its Infor10 ION Workspace—an upgrade that combines the platform’s advanced capabilities with the immense potential of social media.

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The Infor10 ION Workspace is a true Infor revolution—an enterprise solution that allows users to see information they need and where they want to find it. With its personalized tools and unified interface, it augments the efficiency of work and makes decision-making faster.

In this year’s Inforum, an event spearheaded by no less than Charles Phillips, Infor announced the next generation of the ION Workspace. The platform’s latest evolution includes social media applications that users can take full advantage of to foster better communication within the company, and between the organization and its customers. These applications allow for faster relaying and sharing of information, opening opportunities for more effective and secure collaborations among the members of a company.

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With the next generation ION Workspace, users can create profiles, join groups and conversations, post updates and make comments on existing posts, and do a score of other activities commonly featured onpopular social media platforms. The ION Workspace offers users the advanced functionality characteristic of Infor’s products, set in the familiar environment of social media.

"Companies that deploy Workspace can hope to achieve levels of collaboration and communication never before seen in the workplace, helping them recruit and retain young talent, excite their workforce, and drive innovation and profitability," said Infor President Duncan Angove.

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Charles Phillips: Infor financing through investment

For Charles Phillips, Infor faces certain and steady growth. Aside from the successful release of a slew of outstanding products over the last few months, Infor has also gained recent investments from two key equity investors, Golden Gate Capital and Summit Partners. These investments are valuable in ensuring that Infor keeps itself in the path of developing software that ultimately benefits customers.

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Golden Gate Capital and Summit Partners are recognized in the business world for helping enterprises attain their full potential through funding and investments. The two companies recapitalized Infor, facilitating the completion of its merger with Lawson Software and effectively securing its place as the third largest ERP vendor today.

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Charles Phillips of Infor said of the transaction, “We are deeply grateful for the financial backing from Golden Gate Capital and Summit Partners, two of the most respected technology investors in the industry, who combined to invest more than $1 billion of equity to support Infor’s merger with Lawson.”

The transaction also allowed Infor to refinance its debt capital structure, reducing its total debt by $600 million, and extending its debt financing with a maturity date of 2018. The new developments and the company’s recent trajectory all point to an increased value for Infor’s customers.

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Indeed, Infor puts all the support it gets to good use. The company added more than 600 new developers to its roster—a magnitude rarely seen in any software company. This was done in order to develop more industry-specific software that delivers excellent results that are characteristic of an Infor product.

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Charles Phillips: Collaborating for expansion

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In business, growth is the name of the game—either a company stays in the middle, or strives to make it to the top. Over the last few months, Charles Phillips has led Infor through a series of collaborations that marked the ERP vendor’s expansion of its already vast portfolio—a good development for both the company and its customers.

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Infor may have been among the top of the industry per se, but for some analysts, it was its acquisition of HCM leader Lawson Software that effectively sealed its place as a true ERP vendor elite. Indeed, making good use of Lawson’s technology, Infor created Infor HCM, a software suite that is counted among the best to date. With its best-in-class applications and tools, it parallels employees’ work with a company’s business strategies and goals. But Charles Phillips was just getting started.

Charles Phillips, as Oracle’s President, used his expertise and knowledge of the market to lead the company’s mergers & acquisitions strategy.

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To mark Infor’s commitment to help its customers get the most out of their software investment, the company organized Inforum 2012. The hype over the event had hardly abated when Infor announced its partnership with cloud computing leader Salesforce.com to create Inforce. The new suite will combine Infor’s ERP and financing applications with Salesforce.com’s sales and services tools, creating a powerful enterprise solution geared for effective customer relationship management.

Infor recently announced its partnership with systems integrator TriNET in marketing, implementing, training, and providing professional services for Infor10 ERP Enterprise. This will enable TriNET to work as an extension of Infor Consulting Services or ICS.

"In addition to its recently launched portfolio of truly innovative solutions, we were impressed with Infor's new partner program. We welcome the opportunity to support Infor in its growth ambitions for North America and look forward to expanding our long-term and fruitful partnership," said Dill Sanghera, TriNET’s President and CEO.

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Up to speed for innovation: Charles Phillips, Infor and Lawson customers, and industry luminaries in one event

Go Faster.

Speed is the unifying theme at Inforum 2012, the conference that will assemble Infor and Lawson customers for the first time, and present Charles Phillips, Infor and Lawson C-level executives, corporate sponsors, and a symbol on one stage.

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Through the convention, the two companies behind the three-day event will channel their vision, product direction, and commitment to innovation to help others in the industry expand their market and profitability. Over 600 education sessions, product labs, and the expo hall await the attendees. Demos, experts, and roadmaps will converge to help the guests learn how to charge to the future.

Charles Phillips, as the billboards and videos show, will lead the two-day exclusive, invitation-only Executive Forum which will roll simultaneously with the mother event.

One of the main driving forces at Inforum 2012 is the game plan to keep things up to speed within Charles Phillips’ Infor and Lawson, its relatively recent acquisition. Letting the fast pace rub off on companies in their customer base is one of the end zones the promoters are running the show for.

Mainly in store for the participants are the following:

• Keynote presentation by Charles Phillips, who from his Oracle days has made a slew of major acquisitions that has helped the firm move forward  
• Industry luminaries gracing the event, led by Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com
• A display of quality and speed through the Ferrari Formula One Show Car, which also provides photo op and Grand Prix tickets
• Customer recognition through the Excellence in Action Awards

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Charles Phillips, Infor CEO, is one to promote vision, innovation, and speed within his company. Now, through Inforum 2012, Infor and Lawson clients’ time to catch on has come. More information about Inforum 2012 can be accessed here.

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A Charles Phillips affair: Addressing the complex company

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One of CEO Charles Phillips’ affairs is making sure that Infor’s products address its clients’ needs. Companies often run on very complex schemes, and Infor must provide solutions and applications that can keep up with the intricacies of business organizations. So far, Infor’s status as one of the largest ERP providers in the world proves that it has succeeded at building software that do just that.

The demands and developments of modern times have paved the way for extremely complex companies. Business has gone beyond national, and not a few companies engage in transactions with their counterparts from other countries. Maintaining such a complicated web takes the power of computers, combined with sophisticated software and tools.

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To lead one of the world’s largest ERP providers, it is a Charles Phillips’ affair to come up with software that can perform the complicated tasks demanded by today’s organizations. Infor does this by providing applications developed to fit a specific industry or business. Infor’s products are designed to suit the minutest needs of their users.

"The success of Infor’s products may be said as Charles Phillips’ billboard of accomplishments. The release of Infor10 last year was much anticipated by both software enthusiasts and company owners alike."

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This rule applies even to Infor’s newest product offerings. Infor10, for example, features speed and best-in-class applications. But it also comes in specific suites that cater to several industries like automotive, aerospace and defense, fashion, healthcare, and the public sector among others. This emphasis on particularity of function has made Infor a reliable source of thorough solutions for many companies.

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