WiBioCard has built a portfolio of different smart card products targeting large enterprises globally, integrating Fingerprints biometric technology. The products support secure authentication and verification, access and health care use cases. The smart cards also support password and PIN-free login to online services such ticketing and loyalty services through biometric verification. These smart card products by WiBioCard feature Fingerprints’ biometric sensors, software and algorithm, benefitting from leading performance and the company’s years of experience in secure biometrics innovation. Fingerprints’ sensors are designed to be multifunctional to enable usage across a range of different form factors to enhance the security, privacy and user experience.

Adam Philpott, CEO of Fingerprints, comments: “Our collaboration with WibioCard is supporting the global adoption of secure and convenient biometric smart cards. Working with WiBioCard and their wide portfolio of products enables end-users worldwide to experience innovative solutions firsthand that improve our daily lives.”

“Through WiBioCard’s innovative logical & physical access solution we can add another layer of security with biometric technology from Fingerprints. We provide a versatile biometric smart card with an all-in-one solution for government documents, web access, and services like iVoting while ensuring privacy compliance knowing that your identity and sensitive information are protected by biometric technology”, commented Imad El Kurdi, CEO & Founder of WiBioCard.

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Wipro (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading technology services and consulting company, announced a strategic collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to launch a GenAI solution within the new Customer Experience Center (CEC) at the Wipro Cloud Studio’s Kodathi office to serve customers globally. The solution will leverage Wipro’s Smart Operations platform and HPE Machine Learning Development Environment to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.

The solution will be designed to reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) duration for GenAI applications by about 50% based on field testing results, decrease the inflow of incidents by 30%, increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and reduce process cycle time to drive ongoing operational excellence. It will benefit industries heavily reliant on customer service, IT support, and operations such as financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors.

Further, the solution will provide clients with the flexibility to select from a diverse range of Large Language Models (LLMs), depending on their unique business needs.

Jo Debecker, Managing Partner and Global Head, Wipro FullStride Cloud, said, “The co-creation of this GenAI platform is a testament to our longstanding strategic partnership with HPE and to our unwavering commitment to delivering advanced AI solutions within our new Customer Experience Center. This practice-specific center will showcase the potential of HPE Machine Learning Development Environment along with Wipro’s cutting-edge solutions. Together we will continue to push the boundaries of innovation to ensure our clients realize their business ambitions.”

Marc Waters, Senior Vice President, Global Sales, HPE, said, “Our collaboration with Wipro is well proven over many years and this expansion to include AI solutions is an exciting progression. Wipro’s deep technical expertise and HPE’s AI technology are a powerful combination that will accelerate time to value for our customers. By including HPE Machine Learning Development Environment as part of Wipro’s GenAI customer experience, we will enable customers to develop and deploy AI models faster by integrating with popular machine learning frameworks and simplifying data preparation.”

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This enables Google Cloud clients to easily obtain and access CAST Imaging’s powerful software intelligence capabilities, which simplify the process of understanding and managing complex software architectures, empowering technologists to see in minutes what would otherwise take months to find.

CAST Imaging automatically reverse-engineers database structures, code components, and interdependencies, providing a detailed visual map of the entire software system. This visualization enables architects and developers to navigate and analyze tens of thousands of code elements and their relationships, for more efficient software maintenance, safer application modernization, and accelerated optimization.

“Expanding CAST Imaging’s reach to the Google Cloud Marketplace demonstrates our commitment to making software intelligence more accessible to a broader range of organizations,” said Luc Perard, Vice President at CAST Imaging. “Google Cloud users can now leverage CAST Imaging to gain critical insights into their software architectures, whenever they need to know, improve, or transform their critical custom-built applications.”

Visualization of a Claims Management application comprised of 46,000 objects in CAST Imaging

This announcement follows CAST’s recognition as a leader in G2’s newly established software intelligence category, underscoring the growing demand for software intelligence technologies that provide deep insights into home-grown applications. All CAST software intelligence products are now available on every major cloud marketplace – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.

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Partnership helps customers simplify cloud migration, multicloud deployment, and management    

Oracle and Google Cloud today announced a partnership that gives customers the choice to combine Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud technologies to help accelerate their application migrations and modernization.    

Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect will be initially available for customer onboarding in 11 global regions, allowing customers to deploy general purpose workloads with no cross-cloud data transfer charges. Later this year, a new offering, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, will be available with the highest level of Oracle database and network performance, along with feature and pricing parity with OCI.

Both companies will jointly go-to-market with Oracle Database@Google Cloud, benefitting enterprises globally and across multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and more.

“Customers want the flexibility to use multiple clouds,” said Larry Ellison, Oracle Chairman and CTO. “To meet this growing demand, Google and Oracle are seamlessly connecting Google Cloud services with the very latest Oracle Database technology. By putting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hardware in Google Cloud datacenters, customers can benefit from the best possible database and network performance.”      

“Oracle and Google Cloud have many joint enterprise customers,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet. “This new partnership will help these customers use Oracle database and applications in concert with Google Cloud’s innovative platform and AI capabilities.”

Oracle Database@Google Cloud gives customers direct access to Oracle database services running on OCI and deployed in Google Cloud datacenters. This new offering is designed to help customers accelerate their migration to the cloud, so they can modernize their IT environments and take advantage of Google Cloud infrastructure, tooling, and AI services, including data and analytics, Vertex AI, and the company’s Gemini foundation models. Customers can benefit from:

• Flexible options to simplify and help accelerate migrating their Oracle databases to Google Cloud, including compatibility with proven migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration.
• A simplified purchasing and contracting experience via Google Cloud Marketplace that enables customers to purchase Oracle database services using their existing Google Cloud commitments and leverage their existing Oracle license benefits including Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and discount programs such as Oracle Support Rewards (OSR).
• Unified customer experience and support from Google Cloud and Oracle.
• The simplicity, security, and latency of a unified operating environment (datacenter) within Google Cloud to deploy the entire portfolio of Oracle database services including Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database Service, MySQL Heatwave, Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service, Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Data Safe.
• Connecting their Oracle data with Google’s industry-leading AI services including Vertex AI and Gemini foundation models to bring enterprise truth to AI applications and agents for customer service, employee services, creative studios, developer environments, and more.

Oracle will operate and manage Oracle database services directly within Google Cloud datacenters globally, beginning with regions in North America and Europe. Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database Service, and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) will launch later this year across four regions – US East (Ashburn), US West (Salt Lake City), UK South (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt) – and then rapidly expand to additional regions worldwide.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cross-Cloud Interconnect gives customers the ability to deploy workloads across both OCI and Google Cloud regions with no cross-cloud data transfer charges. Customers today will be able to begin onboarding in 11 cross-cloud interconnect regions – Australia East (Sydney), Australia South East (Melbourne), Brazil East (São Paulo), Canada South East (Montreal), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India West (Mumbai), Japan East (Tokyo), Singapore, Spain Central (Madrid), UK South (London), and US East (Ashburn) – expanding to more regions over time and providing a low-latency, high-throughput, private connection between two leading cloud providers, with seamless interoperability. This enables customers to:

• Innovate using the best combination of Oracle’s and Google Cloud’s services based on their features, performance, and pricing.
• Use a direct interconnection between OCI and Google Cloud that provides low latency for first-class multicloud network performance.
• Run multiple Oracle applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle Retail Merchandising, and more on OCI with distributed data stores on OCI and Google Cloud.
• Build new cloud-native applications using Google Cloud and OCI technologies including Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade AI technologies.

The new multicloud capabilities deliver a fully integrated experience for deploying, managing, and using Oracle database instances within Google Cloud along with the ability to move data and deploy new cloud native applications across both clouds. This enables organizations to drive breakthroughs in the cloud using their existing skills to leverage the best of Oracle and Google Cloud capabilities.

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Nearly 300 industry experts, including representatives from leading progress industry enterprises, multinational organizations, and academic associations from nearly 20 countries and regions, gathered to witness this historical moment.

Return to the Essence of Control: Computing, Connectivity, and Sensing – An innovative UCS Architecture

SUPCON has revolutionized the 50-year-old traditional DCS technology architecture by overcoming the limitations of traditional, purpose-built hardware-based control systems with rigid, hierarchical layers and fixed computing power, introducing the next-generation Universal Control System (UCS) architecture, a software-defined, total digitalized, and cloud-based control system. By breaking free from traditional physical controllers, I/O modules, and cabinets, UCS presents a minimalist new form that integrates a control data center, optic fiber network, and intelligent field. This innovative approach eliminates numerous cabinets, ushering in a revolutionary transformation in control systems.

Groundbreaking Launch of Nyx: the World’s First Universal Control System

Centered around a control data center, the Nyx system leverages NyxOS, a cloud-based real-time operating system tailored for industrial control. This results in a robust operating environment for control tasks that is real-time, highly reliable, and secure. The Nyx system is capable of executing cloud-based real-time applications, autonomously adjusting resource scale and capacity to match demand, enabling elasticity and scalability. Its redundant and distributed architecture ensures the control system’s high availability and fault tolerance.

Nyx utilizes an optic fiber network to directly transmit intelligent field data to the control data center at 10 Gbp/s speed with parallel redundancy. This innovative approach leads to a minimalist network architecture, significantly reducing copper cables and footprint.

Harnessing APL-based field connection technology, Nyx supports Zone 2 intrinsically safe explosion-proof field junction boxes and APL modules. It provides each instrument an IP address, improves the communication performance by at least 100 times, and fully digitalizes field transmission and execution, achieving data connectivity in smart plants. SUPCON, steadfast in its commitment to co-construction, sharing and mutual benefit, is actively building an Ethernet-APL ecosystem. It offers a comprehensive range of APL products, including power switches, field switches, and intelligent instruments.

Nyx’s minimalist architecture achieves remarkable cost savings, including a 90% reduction in footprint, 80% in copper cable, and 50% in project time.

Integrate AI: Unleash Infinite Potential in Industrial Application

The industrial application of Nyx promises immense value for the process industry. SUPCON’s pilot applications have revealed Nyx’s ability to deeply integrate AI and leverage the GPU powered control engine, offering functions like automated configuration generation and AI-PID. This enables data prediction and adaptive control, enhancing operational efficiency and ushering in a new AI era in the control field, thereby unleashing productivity.

Empower industrial intelligence, embrace infinite possibilities. In recent years, SUPCON has been actively exploring the integration and application of AI and other advanced technologies in the process industry. The introduction of Nyx not only signifies a significant leap for SUPCON in intelligent control, but also forges a “sword” to catalyst industrial transformation. Amid rapid technological and industrial updates, SUPCON eagerly invites more ecosystem partners to join in this groundbreaking revolution. Together, we lead the industry towards a smarter, more efficient, and greener future.

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Pure Storage^® (NYSE:PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, in partnership with Dimensional Research, released a new data report addressing the rapid adoption of cloud-native platforms to speed application delivery and fuel enterprise innovation.

The new report, “The Voice of Kubernetes Experts Report 2024: The Data Trends Driving the Future of the Enterprise,” explores the top priorities and trends in the cloud-native landscape, including modern virtualization, cloud-native database and AI/ML adoption using Kubernetes, and the rise of platform engineering. The report surfaces proven best practices from advanced platform leaders, serving as a roadmap for enterprises seeking to scale Kubernetes initiatives.

Survey Highlights:

The survey, representing mature and advanced platform leaders, was fielded among 527 IT professionals¹ with more than four years of experience directly managing data services in a Kubernetes environment. Key findings:

• Majority of New Applications Will Be Built in Cloud-Native Platforms: Over the next five years, 80% of respondents confirmed that all or most of their new applications will be built in cloud-native platforms. For their cloud-native technology, they prefer the flexibility of deploying in hybrid cloud environments, with 86% confirming they run their cloud-native technology across both public and private clouds.
• Traditional VM Infrastructure is at an Inflection Point: More than half (58%) of organizations plan to migrate some of their VM workloads to Kubernetes, with 65% planning to migrate VM workloads within the next two years.
• Data on Kubernetes Accelerates Application Delivery: Nearly all (98%) of respondents run data-intensive workloads on cloud-native platforms, with critical apps like databases (72%), analytics (67%), and AI/ML workloads (54%) being built on Kubernetes.
• Platform Engineering is Vital for Cloud-Native Success: Ninety-six percent (96%) of respondents state they already have platform engineering teams to increase the scalability and flexibility of their apps. Executives have shown willingness to invest in training (63%), consultants (60%), and hiring skilled engineers (52%) to support this function.

Industry Significance:

The rise of cloud-native platforms marks a fundamental shift in how businesses conceptualize, develop, and deploy applications at scale. Recognizing the benefits, organizations are migrating their VMs to cloud-native platforms to drive enhanced scalability, flexibility, and operational simplicity – all while reducing overall costs.

Amid this transformation, Kubernetes has matured from an emerging technology to a cornerstone for modern applications over the past decade, supporting the most data intensive workloads that fuel enterprise innovation – from real-time analytics to AI and machine learning to databases, and more. This shift has elevated the role of platform engineering, responsible for managing the infrastructure that enables efficient application development, deployment, and management within containerized environments.

Executive Insight:

• “Experienced platform leaders are running mission-critical applications like databases, analytics, and AI/ML on Kubernetes at massive scale in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It’s no surprise that these platform leaders are also paving the way for VMs to be managed by Kubernetes without compromising enterprise requirements, supported by solutions like Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx. The latest findings underscore the urgency of elevating the platform engineering role to manage infrastructure alongside the application stack for seamless innovation.” – Murli Thirumale, VP & GM, Portworx by Pure Storage
• “The latest Portworx by Pure Storage data findings confirm what we’ve seen across industries: cloud-native strategies are becoming more prominent with organizations now focusing on operationalizing cloud-native environments with data, security, sustainability and cost considerations. The advancements in cloud-native stacks and platform engineering is facilitating faster development and a balanced co-existence of VMs and containers. While migrating VM-based applications to Kubernetes remains challenging, robust data services and container platforms are making it possible, enabling accelerated development, seamless management, automation, and optimized IT infrastructure.” – Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC

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Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, today announced three new services designed to help IoT deployments take advantage of the power and promise of generative AI (GenAI). These new services, named Soracom Query, Soracom Relay, and Soracom Harvest Data Intelligence, can work together or separately to analyze IoT device data on the fly or connect devices to the powerful AI/ML capabilities now available through leading hyperscale platforms.

“As a technology partner to the companies building tomorrow’s connected experiences, we’re committed to delivering leading-edge capabilities that accelerate their innovation and help them to succeed at scale and stay one step ahead in a changing world.”

Soracom Relay lets customers use any existing RTSP/RTP-compatible camera to acquire and securely transmit audio and video data to Soracom’s Harvest Files for storage or to a cloud destination, such as AWS S3 or Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, for computer vision and video analytics. Soracom Query lets customers use SQL queries from BI tools or CLI to mine IoT device data with no need to set up their own servers or storage. This managed data warehouse capability with automatic data loading makes it easy to run complex analytical queries on large IoT datasets and feed the results to machine learning (ML) projects. Both services are now available in technical preview to interested Soracom customers.

Soracom Harvest Data Intelligence, now available in public beta, enhances Soracom’s existing serverless data storage and visualization capability with the ability to apply GenAI to analyze time series data and identify trends, patterns, outliers, and abnormalities. Soracom Harvest Data Intelligence can also use the data provided to perform further analysis. For example, a municipality can use Soracom Relay to monitor road traffic while Harvest Data Intelligence analyzes the data stored and Soracom Query can guide decisions on the best times to schedule road repairs, or to predict how changes in traffic patterns will impact existing infrastructure.

“Applying GenAI to analyze IoT data has the potential to discover insights that are beyond our imagination,” said Kenta Yasukawa, CTO and Co-Founder of Soracom. “As a technology partner to the companies building tomorrow’s connected experiences, we’re committed to delivering leading-edge capabilities that accelerate their innovation and help them to succeed at scale and stay one step ahead in a changing world.”

In keeping with that commitment, Soracom has also established an IoT x GenAI Lab with Matsuo Institute, Inc., which conducts research and development projects in AI sharing the vision of Matsuo Lab, University of Tokyo. The IoT x GenAI Lab will explore the potential to gain new insights from diverse IoT data using Gen AI, develop new products, and provide professional services specializing in the area of Generative AI, including IoT and Large Language Models (LLMs).

About Soracom

Soracom is a technology partner to more than 20,000 startups, SMBs, and enterprises, connecting more than 5 million IoT devices globally. Soracom offers robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to any cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.

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D2iQ, the leading enterprise Kubernetes provider for smart cloud-native applications, today released updates to its D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP), enhancing organizations’ ability to streamline the deployment and management of Kubernetes workloads in Day 2 production environments. Of particular significance for Amazon Web Services Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers is the ability to more easily deploy and manage EKS Kubernetes clusters.

Managing multi-cluster and multi-cloud environments is a problem faced by many organizations modernizing their infrastructures. By providing a central management plane that unifies and eases the management of all Kubernetes clusters, DKP 2.3 gives enterprises unparalleled control and consistency across multi-cloud, multi-cluster landscapes.New Multi-cloud, Multi-cluster Capabilities

Among its new capabilities, DKP 2.3 makes it easier than ever to manage AWS EKS clusters and now also supports provisioning Kubernetes on the top-three public cloud providers–Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform–along with support for the Kubernetes distributions from each of these cloud providers: AWS EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

In addition, DKP 2.3 can now centrally configure and deploy applications per cluster in a multi-cluster environment, providing more flexibility and control when managing multi-cluster environments.

By adding support for provisioning Kubernetes clusters on the Google Cloud Platform, DKP 2.3 enables DKP users to centrally manage all their Kubernetes clusters within the three most popular public cloud provider services, making multi-cloud Kubernetes management easier and giving organizations more flexibility when it comes to public cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes distributions.

Additionally, DKP 2.3 provides support for attaching existing GKE clusters and deploying the DKP Day-2-ready platform applications, making GKE clusters production-ready and enabling organizations to centrally manage third-party cloud provider Kubernetes distributions of their choice (EKS, AKS, and GKE).Big Boost for AWS EKS Customers

With this latest update, DKP adds value to AWS EKS by providing a comprehensive ecosystem of supported and open-source Kubernetes platform applications that accelerate the path to production at scale. Platform teams can now focus on creating developer experiences to solve business challenges without compromising innovation and security.

“While Amazon EKS offers a great foundation for building cloud-native applications, production-grade enterprise platforms need to be augmented with additional capabilities to meet Day 2 operational challenges,” said Tobi Knaup, CEO of D2iQ. “As a founding member of the CNCF, D2iQ has deep experience in deploying containers and Kubernetes in production. The new updates to DKP provide our customers with everything they need to adopt Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, expand and run enterprise-scale Kubernetes to hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments, and more quickly realize the value of smart cloud-native applications.”Insights Ease Problem Resolution

DKP 2.3 also includes two significant alert features to the D2iQ technology preview of DKP Insights, DKP’s self-service troubleshooting capability. Insights now prevents potential problems and downtimes by checking workload configuration against a set of best practices and suggesting improvements. DKP Insights alerts also are enhanced through a details page that includes information on the anomaly, root cause analysis (RCA), and suggested solutions to resolve the anomaly.

Additional new features in DKP 2.3 include:

• Enhanced documentation: The updated documentation feature reorganizes the content from all D2iQ solutions for DKP. Improved search functionality enables users to more easily search across all products on the platform without having to learn all the platform components.
• Kubernetes 1.23 support: DKP 2.3 supports Kubernetes 1.23, enabling users to benefit from the latest features and security fixes in upstream Kubernetes.

DKP 2.3 is generally available now. Register now to attend the upcoming Linux Foundation webinar “Enterprise Kubernetes Done Right with D2iQ” on September 21.

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Partner Interconnect is a product in the Google Cloud Interconnect family. Dedicated Interconnect provides higher-speed and lower cost connectivity than VPN, and has become the “go-to” solution to connect on-premise data centers to Google Cloud. Google Cloud offers connections to Google Cloud services from 146 network edge locations in metropolitan areas across North and Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania.

Google Cloud Interconnect provides secure, private, and direct links, creating a unique opportunity for organizations to deliver vital cloud-based applications quickly. HGC’s global connectivity has been built on high-redundancy and industrial standard SLAs that serve different regions worldwide.

With HGC’s commitment to resilience improvement and latency reduction, Google Cloud customers engaging Interconnect can instinctively gain access to real-time data feeds with an enhanced networking experience. Applications cover global big data streaming processing, machine learning, and other interactive OTT applications over latency-sensitive and geo-distributed cloud-based microservice architecture such as 5G cloud gaming, telehealth, virtual commerce, and AI & IoT technology.

Ravindran Mahalingam, HGC’s Senior Vice President, International Business, said: “As HGC continues to embrace digital transformation riding on our full-fledged digital infrastructure, the company is bringing the agility and seamless integration to the business cloud and networking enhancement worldwide to meet the emerging and dynamic demand.”

Cliff Tam, VP – Global Data Strategy, International Business, HGC Global Communications, added. “Google Cloud Interconnect is built to serve an increasingly verticalized economy to maximize the values for innovative cloud-based cloud capabilities across data blending, AI, IoT and Smart City development with our fully-meshed global network infrastructure.”

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Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Mobile Area Water and Sewer (MAWSS) has chosen to upgrade from Lawson S3 to Infor Financials & Supply Management. MAWSS, the preferred provider of water and sanitary sewer service for the greater Mobile area in Alabama, has been an Infor customer since 1999, and has trusted Infor to help it digitally transform in the cloud with an updated, modern, strong ERP foundation. MAWSS will apply automated workflows and role-based security to tighten access to sensitive public data and harness the power and responsiveness of the Infor cloud to remain ahead of its competition.

Learn more about Infor Financials & Supply Management: https://www.infor.com/solutions/erp/financials

Dedra Cassidey, comptroller at MAWSS, said, “The Infor team has guided us through this transition, leaving nothing unchecked. They have helped us account for every detail of the upgrade, making sure everything has been tested and validated. We will go live knowing that our data is secure and accurate, with greater ease of access, leading to increased efficiency. The new reporting platform with customizable dashboards will allow our users to focus on specific KPIs, contributing to the success of our overall strategic plan.”

By upgrading to the cloud, MAWSS will benefit from a new modern user experience as new entrants to the workforce demand easy-to-use business applications. In addition, regular automatic updates each month will help the organization save valuable time, expense, and energy. The move to the multi-tenant cloud will also allow the IT department at MAWSS to focus on value-added tasks rather than tracking when ERP updates are needed and performing the work manually. Infor Financials & Supply Management can be accessed anytime, anywhere in the cloud or with the Infor Go^® mobile app, thereby providing greater mobility to MAWSS field teams.

“Outdated system architecture stifles growth,” said Steve Potvin, Infor vice president.  “Infor understands that modern organizations can no longer be tethered to their desktops to access data, handle manual updates or siloed collaboration. It’s more important than ever for organizations to move from on-premises applications, which hold a company back from their full potential, to software that is agile and can grow alongside them.”

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