Executive Insights: An Interview with Charles Phillips, CEO, Infor

Charles Phillips, CEO at Infor, provides his insights and experience in a conversation with Saugatuck Technology CEO Bill McNee about enterprise architecture, the evolving capabilities of the Cloud, and the promise of Social technology, all of which are helping to drive business innovation for his customers. Phillips notes that Infor solutions may be deployed either on premises or in the Cloud as the customer may prefer. In addition, he discusses how Infor is embracing open source technology for the benefit of its customers, and leveraging the open source stack in the creation of customer-facing business services. The interview illustrates the high degree of commitment that Infor has made to providing its customers with choice as they utilize the Cloud in pursuit of the Boundary-free Enterprise™.

Infor is a Gold sponsor at Saugatuck Technology’s upcoming Cloud Business Summit (http://cloudbusinesssummit.com) taking place on November 14, 2012 at the Westin Times Square, New York, New York. This one-day executive forum brings together CIOs, CTOs and senior business leaders from mid-and-large size enterprises — across a wide range of industries — to explore how they can and are realizing value from the Business Cloud.

Alex Bakker

About Alex Bakker

He has written and presented research on information management, data administration, applications development, application integration, mobile commerce / payments, graphical user interface and usability strategies, web site development and Internet applications, network computing, electronic commerce, portals, hubs and communities. Prior to Saugatuck, Alex worked as an IT consultant where he provided server maintenance and IT continuity support to businesses and public sector clients for two years. Alex is a Whitman College alumnus, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics.