Infor Recognized as a Leader in Magic Quadrant Report on EAM for Manufacturing

Infor today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for Manufacturing.”   The report, available at http://sn.im/infoream-mq, assesses EAM vendors according to their ability to execute and completeness of vision.  Infor EAM solutions continue to be recognized by industry analysts and companies worldwide as the de facto standard for monitoring and managing the deployment, performance and maintenance of company assets

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Oracle’s EPM System brings together category-leading Hyperion performance management applications, packaged BI applications and a foundation of BI products into a complete and integrated system. It complements SAP transactional systems and data warehouses, enabling customers to take advantage of their investments and data in these systems to improve decisions and manage performance across business functions.

To further help reduce the complexity and costs of integrating SAP financial data into Hyperion applications and Essbase, Oracle introduced a pre-packaged source adapter in 2009 that integrates SAP (versions R/3 4.6c and ECC 6) General Ledger data into Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Strategic Finance applications as well as Essbase for financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.

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Riverbed recently updated its line of WAN optimization and acceleration appliances with the release of RiOS 6 and a couple of new hardware platforms. RiOS 6 builds on many of the advances made in RiOS 5, adds some new features, and enhances others. RiOS 6 continues Riverbed’s forward-thinking approach to the WAN optimization space by building in more application- and protocol-specific optimizations, a compression and deduplication engine that adjusts on the fly, and even greater network transparency and traffic flow reporting. Throw in better overall performance than previous versions and the new release is a compelling solution for virtually any distributed enterprise.

[ IPv4 depletion is happening faster than expected, raising the specter of a black market that could jump the price of an Internet presence. Read about it on InfoWorld: “Beware the black market rising for IP addresses.” ]

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