Manufacturers Remain with Infor and Successfully Grow their Business
Manufacturers Remain with Infor and Successfully Grow their Businesses _________________________ 46 customers of Midwestern channel partner have used Infor solutions more than 10 years -- demonstrates Infor's success in meeting their evolving needs ATLANTA, November 29, 2005 - Analysis of a recent Infor channel partner user conference indicates that companies implementing Infor solutions in their discrete manufacturing facilities choose to remain with Infor over long periods of time and expand their use of Infor solutions as their businesses grow. Infor is the largest global enterprise software provider exclusively focused on developing solutions for the manufacturing and distribution industries, and one of its channel partners-VISUAL Business Solutions (VBS)-found that this concentration on the essential needs of manufacturers has convinced its customers to grow with Infor. In preparing for its first user conference, VBS discovered that 46 of its 600 customers have been using and growing with the Infor VISUAL ERP solution for at least ten years. VBS honored ten of these companies at the conference as representative of the large group of manufacturers who prefer and stay with Infor VISUAL, part of Infor's Manufacturing Essentials solution. Infor has continued to expand VISUAL to meet the changing needs of its customers. "Infor VISUAL was the first Windows product to come out the door," noted VBS president David Sheriff. "These companies stuck with us, rather than going to others that have come along; and we do a consistent amount of expansion of our customers' Infor VISUAL systems every year." A number of the honored companies have experienced dramatic growth. "One went from $20 million to $200 million in that ten-year period," Sheriff said. "Infor VISUAL helped them grow, and they added minimal staff along the way." "The fact that so many companies have stayed with a single, evolving solution all these years may be unusual for the IT industry, but it's common among Infor customers," said Infor vice president of global marketing, Rick Parker. "Our continuing investment in product strategy and our constant innovation to leverage the current solution in the world's industrial base mean that Infor customers can be confident the systems they purchase from us will meet their needs for a lifetime of growth and development." The ten representative companies that VBS recognized at the recent event were: Barudan America, Solon, Oh. Davlan Engineering, St. Louis, Mo. Helio Precision Products, Lake Bluff, Ill. Len Industries, Leslie, Mich. Major Tool & Machine, Indianapolis, Ind. Platt Luggage, Chicago, Ill. Sibley Machine & Foundry, South Bend, Ind. Wessels Company, Greenwood, Ind. Wirco Inc., Avilla, Ind. W.W. Patterson, Pittsburgh, Penn. About Infor Infor is the largest global software provider exclusively focused on delivering world-class enterprise applications to select verticals in the manufacturing and distribution industries. Infor delivers integrated solutions that address the essential challenges its customers face in areas such as supply chain planning, relationship management, demand management, ERP, warehouse management, marketing-driven distribution, and business intelligence. With more than 2,300 employees in 47 global offices, Infor provides enterprise solutions to almost 18,000 customers in over 70 countries. For additional information, visit www.infor.com <http://www.infor.com/> . ### Contact: Sharon Sulc Infor 614.523.7037 Sharon.sulc@infor.com Jennifer Radivoj Airfoil Public Relations 248.304.1421 radivoj@airfoilpr.com