Infor said this week that 163 organizations joined the Infor Partner Network last year with 43 of these in the United States. That represents an increase of 48 percent over the number of reseller/developers who joined the network in 2012. Infor cited initiatives such as the new Micro-vertical Products Program and the IPN Digital Edge. MVPP enables partners to build their industry-specific applications via the use Infor Mongoose, which they can use to design and deploy applications without knowledge of complex programming languages. The IPN Digital Edge is a platform that helps them maintain the latest Infor product information on their websites, including the ability to replicate designated infor.com features and content in real-time.