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LN-1004 Running the best-in-class operational
ERP with the latest technology
Bram Vijfhuizen, Sr. Product Manager, Development
Harold Vrieling, Sr. Director, Development

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What keeps our customers awake…
Globalization
and
Technology
Change
Increasing
Customer
Demands
Growth and
Business
Model
Innovation
Increasing
Complexity –
Organization
Product and
Process
Demographic
Shifts and New
Media
Compliance
and
Sustainability

Manage Complexity through Simplification
SPEED
AGILITY
SCALE
• Global Financial Visibility & Control
• Streamline Compliance
• Process standardization using
Industry Best Practices
• Management by Exception
• Task / Workflow Management
• Business Process Flexibility
• Easy to learn and use
• Productive
• Fast access to information
• Empower people, make better
decisions faster
• Extend appls across entire organization
• Facilitate better collaboration
• IT Infra, Consolidation and Modernization
• Vendor consolidation
• Platform independence
• Performance / Scalability
• Replace custom apps with standard software
• Easy to integrate, upgrade and customize
• Easy to manage (24x7)
• Availability of skilled resources
IT must become an
enabler, rather than
inhibitor of business
process change and
innovation

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Achieve
Rapid Time
to Value
Simplicity
Excel at
Performance
Scalability
and
Availability
Deliver on
Agility
+ Platform independence
+ Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid
+ Open Source Infrastructure
+ ION and DEM Content
+ Implementation Accelerator
Programs
+ Hardware innovation
+ Scalable (up and down)
+ DB table compression
+ Performance optimization
+ Test Automation Suite
+ Virtualization
+ Configuration wizards
+ Extensibility without
source code
+ Easy extensibility
through productized
integrations
+ User interface
personalization
+ Content Management
+ Cloud Deployment
10.4
10.4 10.4
10.4
10.4
10.4
10.4
10.4
10.4
10.4
10.4
10.4
LN Technology Platform

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Achieve Rapid Time to Value

v

Business process view…..
Strategy and vision
Core functions
Support functions
Sourcing &
procurement
Production
management
Product
development
Materials
management
Program
management
Planning and
scheduling
Contract
management
Enterprise strategy Organization management
Quality
management
Technology
Financial
management
Human capital
management
Enterprise asset
management

Open Source Strategy
We can deliver a better experience with open source because it
is open enough to allow us to configure a seamless experience
with our applications with fewer licensing and distribution
restrictions. We can easily move images between on premise
and cloud as customer needs dictate.
- Charles Philips, CEO, Infor

Infor LN Open Source Infrastructure
Postgres Plus
LN UI
LN VM + DB
DRIVERION
PLATFOR
M
Ming.le /
Other Infor Apps
HARDWARE
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization [ KVM-based ]
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxGUEST OS
LN HTML5-based UI
HARDWARE
Postgres Plus
LN UI
LN VM + DB
DRIVER
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
[ KVM-based ]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat CloudForms
LN HTML5-based UI
Private Cloud ManagementLN Virtual Deployment
Presentation Tier
•Web Server
•Red Hat JBoss
•Apache Tomcat
Application Tier
•LN VM + LN DB Driver
•Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Database Tier
•Postgres Plus Cloud
Database (EnterpriseDB)
Virtualization / Cloud
Management
•Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization

Excel at Performance, Scalability and
Availability

Server platforms
OS OS Version
Oracle
11.2, 12
SQL Server
2012
DB2 m
9.5, 9.7,
10.1,10.5
Informix
umo
11.5,11.7
EnterpriseDB
PPAS 9.3
Linux x86 Red Hat RHEL 6 32-64 bit 32-64 bit 32-64 bit 64 bit 3
Linux x86 SuSE SLES 11 32-64 bit 32-64 bit 32-64 bit
Microsoft x86
Windows
2008 SP2, 2008
R2, 2012 1, 2012
R2 1
32-64 bit 32-64 bit
IBM Power PC
AIX
6.1, 7.1 64 bit 64 bit 64 bit
HP IA64 HP-UX V3 64 bit 64 bit
Sun SPARC
Solaris
10, 11 64 bit 64 bit 2
u No Unicode
m No multibyte
o On request only
1 Windows 2012
only 64 bit
2 Only for Sun
Sparc Solaris 10
3 LN only, Unicode
only
4 Oracle does not
support W2012
R2 yet

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Platform Support - Others
Virtualization
Server
Clustering
Webservers
Desktop
Systems
Browsers
• Microsoft ©
Hyper-V 2012
• Red Hat
Enterprise
Virtualization
(RHEV)
• Windows 8.1 • Red hat JBoss 6.3
• Apache Tomcat 7.x
• IBM Websphere AS
8.5
• Windows - IE 10,11
• Windows - Chrome
• MacOS – Safari
• Windows Server
2012 Clustering
• Load balancing
high-availability
of Infor LN

Deliver on Agility

Better Alignment of IT to Business Needs
Quickly Deliver
New Capabilities
to Support
Business
Streamline
Compliance
and Mitigate
Risks
Support Market
Expansion /
Shrinkage in IT
Infra
Optimize
Business
Processes
Optimize /
Shorten Supply
Chain
Easy LN
Upgrades

Infor LN Extensibility Model
Customer
Defined
Fields
User Exit DLLs
In-Context
Modeling

Business Benefits
Challenges
• Enable customers to extend Infor LN business logic without
owning LNs standard source code
Solution
• Customer Defined Fields (CDFs)
• User Exit DLL (until ES 10.3.1 dependent on Data Access Layer
• ES 10.3.1 enables extensibility if no Data Access Layer (DAL)
is in place
• Externalize modifications
• Infor 10x – ION and complementary applications to
complement Infor LN
• Faster Time to Value
• Ability to personalize the application
with all the associated benefits of
increased usability, productivity,
process fit
• Increased agility by avoiding source
code modifications
Infor LN Extensibility Model

Customer Defined Fields
My New Field:

CDF enhancements since ES 10.3
• Create your own enum datatype
• List datatype
• Manipulation of CDFs via Expression Modeler
• Conditional Formatting of CDFs
• Easy SQL supports CDFs
• Reference to CDFs in reports
• Use form references to CDF in other tables
ES 10.3.1
10.4

LN User Management
• User Monitoring
• Transaction Monitoring
• Dimensions
• GLAccounts
• Transaction Types
Infor LN –
Approva
Integration
Data Level
Security

LN Quality Assurance

LN Development and Quality Assurance
• FDA 21
• CFR 11
• EU Annex 11
• ISO compliance
• Veracode
Industry Requirements Infor Software Development Process
• Tasks and Responsibilities
• Planning
• Requirements
• Design
• Coding
• QA Testing
• Release
• Maintenance

Test Automation Suite
Multi-purpose LN Application Studio
BOD / Web Services ModelingLN Application Development In-context Modeling
10.4

Modeler
• Record LN app to generate test
case
• Modify / extend test case
• Playback test case without user
interaction
• Simulate Process Flow tests in
LN
• Build collection of tests
• Export/Import BPV setup

QA Status Reporting
• Inform organization about quality
assurance results
• Electronic distribution of statistics
Successful
Failed
Not Started

Content Management

The First Impression Counts
Pixel-Perfect
Correspondence
Deliver at Any
Place
Business
Partners,
Employees and
Users
Access from Any
place
Sustainability /
Paperless Office
Compliance and
Archiving

Document Output Management for LN
• Routing to Recipients
• Rendering of Documents
• Output Distribution by Channel
• Content Store

• Conditional Layouts by
• Country
• Business Partner
• Employee
• User
• Using Images for
• Corporate Style
• Inline images
• Using Attachments
• Preface
• Addenda
• Multi-channel Distribution
• Via Email
• To Files and Folders
• To Paper
• Create Custom device
Formatted Documents – Studio

Document Output Management
Overview
Email
Paper
Screen
Custom
channel
Managed Master Data
• Business Partners
• Employees
Manage Preferences
• Document
Distribution
Infor LN
Distribution Engine
Cache
• Generated
Documents
• Attachments
• Overlays
Multi-Channel
Document
Output
Web
Service
Plugin
Infor Reporting
Business Vault
IR Rendering
Service
DOM Distribution
ServicesXML Report Output
IDM Archiving
PDF/A

Infor Document Management (IDM)
LN integration with IDM

What is IDM?
Infor Document Management is Infor’s
across-the-board document management
solution going forward

IDM – View from the top
Capture Platform Document Collaboration
Document ArchiveDocument Repository
Content Integration

Integrating IDM with LN User Interface
• Web Part
• In-context driven
• Document Viewer
• Document Upload
• Document Authoring
• Content store in Sharepoint

This image shows
the start page for
the IDM client,
where recently
viewed documents
and latest searches
are presented
Ming.le IDM client – Start Page

This screenshot shows the
upcoming Search interface
of the IDM client.
Ming.le IDM client – Search

This screenshot
shows the
Document view in
the IDM client.
Ming.le IDM client – Document

Support
• IDM Web part
• LN 10.2.1 Applications and later
• Enterprise Server 10.3.1and later
• LN Document Output Management (DOM)
• LN 10.3 Applications and later
• Enterprise Server 10.3.1 and later

Infor approachTraditional approach
Meaningful design

Infor LN Today
Create Experiences People Love
Productive
Get Stuff Done
Engaging
Connect people to
information and
processes
Insightful
Empower Optimized
Decisions – Connect
People to Outcomes
Social
Encourage
Collaboration
Mobile
Write Once, Deploy
Anywhere
+ 360 degree views
+ Management by
exception
+ Paparazzi - Follow
business events
+ Tasks and Workflow
+ Fewer clicks
+ 360 views
+ Conditional
Formatting
+ In-context BI
+ Mobile CRM
+ Mobile BI
+ LN UI (HTML5 client)
+ Role-based Home
Pages
+ Real-time Dashboards
leveraging Infor 10x
+ Enterprise
Performance
Management
+ Workbenches
(HTML5)
+ Post from any LN
screen to social
activity feeds
+ Context modeling
+ Drill down from social
+ DEM Process Viewer
(HTML5)
10.3.1
+ DEM Modeler (HTML5)10.4
10.4
10.3.1

Business Benefits
Challenges
• Ongoing pressure around security and risk management
• Need to comply with emerging accessibility requirements such as
Section 508
• Mobile tsunami will require apps to treat mobile experiences as
first-class citizens
Solution
• LN UI replaces Java Swing UI Framework
• HTML5 technology roadmap has clear charter around
accessibility
• Addresses security and compliance
risks associated with Oracle’s
decision to replace Java Swing UI
Framework with Java FX
• Enables simplified compliance with
emerging accessibility requirements
• Lower TCO through zero client
footprint – ready for Private and
Public Cloud deployments
• Future proof technology
Since ES
10.3.1LN UI - HTML5-based user interface

New and Enhanced
DEM Process Viewer
Infor 10x Content Modeling for Infor LN
DEM Modeler (HTML5) 10.4
10.4

LN UX Innovation Roadmap
LN 10.3 with ES 10.3.1 LN 10.4 Beyond LN 10.4
Release Goals: Replace Java Swing
+ Java Swing UI Framework replaced
+ Simplified accessibility compliance
+ SoHo UX 3.0 Design
Release Goal: Zero Footprint Client
+ Remove dependency on worktop
for DEM authoring
+ Remove existing Microsoft Silverlight ®
components from Infor LN Workbenches
+ Re-invents selection of screens to improve
the experience for desktop and mobile
Release Goals: Reinvent UX for
“Write once, deploy anywhere”
+ Introduce style that optimizes LN UI for
automatic scaling for broader range of process
scenarios
Known Limitations
- User Experience as such remains
Unchanged – UX 3.0
- UI renders on browsers across
multiple devices, but UX is not
optimized for touch and does not
automatically scale to device
Known Limitations
- Developers who install LN Studio
should also install Worktop to be able
to run Dynamic Form Editor (DFE)
Known Limitations
+ Native iOS, Android and Windows
applications will likely continue to offer
the best user experience as they can make
optimal use of device specific features (i.e.
camera, location services, storage etc)

Infor Ming.le
Infor LN Worktop
Rich Client
Infor LN WebTop
Web Client
10.2.1 and earlier
Infor LN Worktop
Rich Client
Infor LN WebTop
Web Client
10.3 and ES 10.3.1 10.4 and beyond
Infor LN WebTop
Web Client
Infor Ming.le
Infor LN UI
Infor Ming.le
Infor LN WebTop
Web Client
Infor Ming.le
Infor LN UI
+ Remove dependency on Worktop for DEM
authoring
+ Remove dependency on Microsoft Silverlight ®
components for LN workbenches
Transition to LN UI (HTML5-based)

LN-1004 Running the best-in-class operational
ERP with the latest technology
Bram Vijfhuizen, Sr. Product Manager, Development
Harold Vrieling, Sr. Director, Development

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