Business Chief USA March 2019

INFOR, USA
“I was actually
a customer of
Infor. I liked it
so much that
I joined the
organization”
—
Joseph Pascaretta,
Vice President & General Manager, Infor
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From the Infor OS API gateway and
integration of third-party applications,
to its own Coleman Artificial Intelligence
(AI), to an infinitely scalable Data Lake,
Infor understands the necessity for
powerful machine learning systems
to handle the vast quantities of data
inherent to Industry 4.0. Infor is applying
machine learning to Big Data and
scaling it infinitely using the power
of cloud computing. Pascaretta notes
that the integration of data, AI and
cloud scalability is “the huge value
proposition of what we’re doing and
the major differentiator”. He adds:
“No other enterprise software organization
is doing what we’re doing. They’re
doing elements of it in pockets and silos,
but not all together as one integrated
platform solution delivered fully in
the Cloud.”
“Thinking about data as the critical
asset is really the foundation of all this,”
says Pascaretta. Traditionally, companies
store data in data warehouses
which filter all incoming data that has
already been processed for specific
purposes. “The first mistake that
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