Looking to help customers move to the cloud at their own comfortable pace is Oracle Corp. and storage partner NetApp, Inc. A business outcome-focused approach has helped NetApp maintain it’s vendor-agnostic policies while encouraging the company to work with Oracle to innovate useful new products. NetApp’s Aaron Newcomb, Manager of Solutions Product Marketing, stopped by theCUBE ...

Oracle Corp. has made some big transformations in the three years since it decided to focus on cloud offerings. theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Frick and John Furrier discussed the changes on which Oracle has been focused in their kickoff of SiliconANGLE’s live event coverage at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference. Furrier explained that he is “seeing meat on ...

The datacenter-less approach to enterprise software makes Infor Inc. distinct among its competitors and a potential market disruptor. On the second day of the Inforum 2014 conference, Wikibon.org analysts Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante kicked off their event coverage, live from theCUBE, ruminating on Infor’s role in the market (see the entire video below). They also ...

After the first day of Infor Inc.’s annual Inforum conference, theCUBE hosts Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante shared their observations about the event and discussed their learnings about Infor’s investments in user experience and applications, as well as the company’ role as a competitor with SAP SE.   . App-centric approach to cloud strategy   While graphics ...

Infor Inc.’s datacenter-averse approach makes it a potential SAP SE challenger, said Vinnie Mirchandani, the Owner of Deal Architect. At the Inforum 2014 conference, he sat down with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly on theCUBE to talk about his predictions for Infor and their established competitor, SAP SE. Based on the keynotes and briefings in ...

Infor Inc.’s focus on micro-verticals, design, and research and development is “a transformation” that’s “taking the company to the next level,” according to Albert Pang, President of the market research company Apps Run the World Research, Inc. Pang sees a bright future for Infor if it continues to stay focused on what it does best, especially ...

Listening to customer needs is possibly one of the surest ways to improve company products and gain customer loyalty. For Infor Inc., the company’s enhancement request process makes it simple for Infor customers to request changes to its base product of enterprise software and cloud services specific to industry verticals. Facilitating communication between Infor and its ...

 . Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville is a devout believer in Big Data. It “ups the pressure” on professional journalists, she said, when anybody can verify and broadcast data from their smartphones. In her interview on theCUBE during the Inforum conference in New Orleans, LA, Norville discussed the data science behind her new book, “Thank You Power,” shared ...

 . Ciber, Inc. is helping to lead Infor Global System’s charge to encourage enterprise customers to upgrade their software. Ciber’s VP of sales Tom Heldt said their partnership is focused on helping clients avoid costly data center modifications by offering industry-specific cloud products. Infor’s focus on verticals is key to the company’s cloud efforts, as the ...

Under the leadership of CEO Charles Phillips, Infor Inc. “has delivered.” That’s according to Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder & Chairman of Constellation Research. Many in the industry weren’t sure whether Phillips would utilize a “buy, slash, and burn operation” with Infor’s late-to-the-table cloud initiatives, but the company’s actions have been very unexpected to the analyst. ...