Infor expands into a new Infor Marketplace

The Infor Marketplace is a curated showcase of solutions that can complement and enhance customers’ existing Infor investments, according to the company. Customers will be able to find, source, and licence industry and micro-vertical solutions that interface with Infor’s enterprise software portfolio through the Infor Marketplace.

Customers can register to receive information and assets linked to a wide range of Infor and partner solutions and services through the Infor Marketplace, which can be found at https://market.infor.com. Infor wants to turn it into a real-time provisioning platform where consumers may conduct frictionless e-commerce in the future.

Soma Somasundaram, Infor Chief Technology Officer & President of Products, said, “The launch of Infor Marketplace underscores our commitment to providing a smart, preconfigured and modern enterprise ecosystem. We expect to provide access to hundreds of solutions that have been pre-integrated with Infor software or built with Infor platform technologies. From partner-developed apps, which support certain niche industry parameters, to free Infor-developed content such as visualizations, extensions and reusable widgets, the Infor Marketplace is intended to showcase new and innovative solutions for our customers.”

Rene Nazario, CEO of Visual K, a leading provider of manufacturing, maintenance and point-of-sales software and an Infor Gold Channel Partner, said, “We are very excited about the new opportunities and possibilities that the Infor Marketplace can give us exposure to. In this day and age, people are used to licensing apps from an online store, so this is a major step in that direction. The setup is designed to be painless, and we are looking forward to the ability to receive feedback. This should be a win-win for all parties involved.”

Antoinette Habets, VP of Acumen Group, said, “The Marketplace can help facilitate greater awareness of existing business and technical applications that extend Infor solutions for all customers. It is designed to solve specific vertical or business requirements, while increasing their ROI from the platform. Before the Marketplace, customers weren’t always aware of the available integrated solutions that can further automate and streamline their operations. These extensions can help improve workflows, reduce costs and deliver greater efficiencies. The Marketplace also can serve as a great self-service resource for customers.”

“The Infor Marketplace should help provide Infor customers and partners with an opportunity to maximize their investments in Infor solutions, which are built on the foundation of the Infor OS enterprise application platform,” said Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research.

In Constellation Research’s April 23, 2021, Offering Overview report, Infor OS Powers Next-Gen ERP with a Rich Platform, Mueller noted that, “Overall, Infor has one of the most mature EAPs in the market, a testament to a more-than-10-year R&D effort and the early decision to build on the public cloud (AWS, in this case), making Infor the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) product to run on a standard public cloud platform.”  

The Infor Marketplace is powered by AppDirect®, a leading subscription commerce platform designed to remove the complexity of building a recurring business model. “For software companies, product ecosystems are quickly becoming a key competitive differentiator, allowing them to deliver more innovation and value to their customers faster,” said Daniel Saks, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AppDirect.

He added,  “At AppDirect, we have more than a decade of experience helping companies create and support product ecosystems. We are excited to partner with Infor to power their ecosystem journey every step of the way to full subscription commerce.”

Infor’s broad and growing partner network is also featured on the Infor Marketplace. It gives Infor’s ISV (independent software vendor) partners better visibility among the company’s 65,000 clients. Infor ISV partners should expect expanded capabilities from the Infor Marketplace in the coming months, which should make customer acquisition, billing, payment processing, and automatic provisioning easier.

The Infor Marketplace is designed to be a one-stop shop for clients looking for unique and innovative software solutions, such as analytics, AI, and machine learning apps, as well as value-added expansions to Infor products that provide even more industry-specific capabilities.

It’s also intended to have a searchable directory of partner products to assist customers get the most out of their Infor ecosystem investments. Users can also read ratings and reviews from other customers to see which solutions are most beneficial to their businesses.

Companies and partners interested in having their products and services listed on the Infor Marketplace can send an e-mail to InforMarketplace@infor.com for additional information.