There will also be Cloud Suite Business for Midmarket, which he called "More feature rich than NetSuite. And Infor has a plan for the cloud competitor. “They have been calling on our partners and customers pretty aggressively, so we are going to go after them. “We have a trade in program to go after NetSuite,” Phillips said. There must be something in the air. At his company’s August partner Summit, Acumatica CEO Jon Roskill termed NetSuite “the one company I worry about” and said the companies even split the deals they compete for. Roskill also referred to the “Larry Ellison slime-talking, over-overprice sales guys” that NetSuite employs. There are several ways to read this: 1. NetSuite is having an impact; 2. The SaaS market is heating up as more companies look to make the move. 3. Some companies that have been small or quiet are finding their voice as they become more effective. It’s probably all of the above.
INFOR TARGETS NETSUITE, OTHERS Featured
AA newly aggressive Infor is going to make direct pitches against major competitors. That includes NetSuite, according to comments made by Infor CEO Charles Phillips during this week’s conference call for earnings for the first quarter ended July 31. Next week, Infor is releasing Cloud Suite Financials, which Philips described “as a brand new global set of financial applications written from the ground up in Java” and as “the first general ledger written in more than a decade in our industry.” Phillips said that product will go against Oracle and SAP and, in some cases, Workday.
