What is Infor Inc. doing to not only innovate but drive revenue in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning?

Looking to answer these questions and others, SiliconANGLE is at the Infor Inforum 2017 event, currently underway in New York City, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

Infor, the privately held business software company, received a significant $2.5 billion investment in November from Koch Industries Inc. The investment values the New York-based Infor at over $10 billion. The investment, which Charles Phillips, chief executive officer of Infor, described as “transformational,” provides the immediate benefit of having Koch as a customer and will allow Infor to focus on more “white space projects” like AI.

During its segments at the Infor Inforum event, theCUBE will focus on the company’s recent acquisitions across business intelligence, data visualization and enterprise resource planning.  

To boost its BI technology and compete more heavily with Oracle Corp., Infor announced the acquisition of BI specialist Birst Inc. earlier this year for an undisclosed amount of money, but sources put the figure around $100 million. Some of Birst’s global customers include Citrix Systems, Inc., the Kellogg Co. and Schneider Electric SE.

In an attempt to transform retail, Whole Foods Market Inc. became an Infor customer in 2015. The recent acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon.com Inc. for $13.7 billion will prove interesting for Infor. The company’s GT Nexus division, which it acquired in 2015 for $675 million, signed a deal with Amazon earlier this year that will see the ecommerce giant running its transportation and logistics in part on the GT Nexus platform.

Keynote speakers at Inforum 2017 include Infor executives Charles Phillips; Stephan Scholl, president; Duncan Angove, president; Soma Somasundaram, executive vice president of global product development; and Marc Scibelli, chief creative officer.

Other guest speakers include Terry Wise, vice president of worldwide alliances, channels and ecosystem at Amazon Web Services; Steve Lucas, chief executive officer of Marketo Inc.; and Dhiraj Shah, founder, president and chief executive officer of Avaap Inc.

Presented by the Women’s Infor Network, Pam Murphy, chief operating officer at Infor, will be joined by Susan Rice, former U.S. National Security Advisor and ambassador to the United Nations; Farah Pandith, former special representative to Muslim communities for the U.S. Department of State; and other female leaders to discuss the “The Change Makers: Closing technology, societal, and political gaps.”

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at the Infor Inforum 2017 event, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage starts today at 10:30 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. EDT.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from the Infor Inforum event on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from the Infor Inforum event will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Tuesday, July 11

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include Inforum 2017 keynote presenters Terry Wise, Pam Murphy, Charles Phillips, Marc Scibelli and Dhiraj Shah.

Other Infor executives who will be interviewed on theCUBE include Chip Coyle, chief marketing officer; Martine Cadet, vice president and head of education alliance program; and Christina Van Houten, senior vice president of strategy and product management.

Wednesday, July 12

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include Inforum 2017 keynote presenters Duncan Angove and Stephan Scholl, as well as Infor executive Dan Barnhardt, vice president of corporate communications.

TheCUBE will also interview the WIN general session panelists, including Susan Rice, Farah Pandith, Tan Le, co-founder and chief executive officer of EMOTIV Inc.; and Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code.

Wednesday’s lineup will also include Mike Rodgers, senior vice president, chief strategy and information officer at Pilot Travel Centers LLC (known as Pilot Flying J).

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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