As Infor Inc. strives to innovate, and drive revenue, in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, the company announced significant progress at today’s Inforum event in New York. The company released Coleman, an enterprise-grade, industry-specific AI platform for Infor CloudSuite applications.

Along with this and other offerings around industry-specific business applications, the company believes it’s in a strategic position to leverage the latest technology to provide real business value, according to Chip Coyle (pictured), chief marketing officer of Infor.

“At an accelerated place, we’re the ones bringing the most deep, industry rich, functional applications to the cloud. That has created a great layer for all of these future innovations with the benefits of business intelligence applications built right in,” Coyle said. 

Coyle spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), co-hosts of the theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.)

Bringing AI to business applications

A lot of the excitement at Inforum this year centered around Infor’s latest artificial intelligence platform, dubbed Coleman, in honor of the renowned NASA Mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson, famous for her work on the lunar landing mission.

“Today the big announcement was Coleman to take our new artificial intelligence platform and create profound new ways that workers in different industries and companies across the network enterprise can interact in a business setting, much like they do in a commercial setting,” Coyle said. 

Infor is also expanding its marketing campaign into the world of sports in a partnership with the Brooklyn Nets. In addition to apparel branding, Infor is also providing technology solutions to the team’s athletic management organization to optimize player performance.

“We’re enabling them with performance and team analytics with a whole slew of applications like biometric data and imagery when they’re moving around on the court. That can then be used to fine tune decisions on which personnel to use or which players are best to shoot a free throw after one day of rest versus two days, that level of analytics,” Coyle said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Inforum 2017 event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Inforum 2017. Neither Infor Global Solutions Inc. nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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