Let’s accelerate our customers’ journeys to the cloud in 2025

New year’s resolutions are tough to get right! Too ambitious and you’re less likely to fulfil them; too easy and you feel like you’re slacking.

For 2025, one of my personal resolutions—like many others, I imagine—is to spend less time mindlessly scrolling on my phone, and more time benefitting from AI-driven innovation that will enhance my smartphone experiences with my friends, families and colleagues next year.

My most ambitious business goals for 2025, beyond the business-as-usual objectives, is to help Infor Partners accelerate our shared customers’ journeys to the cloud so they realize technology’s promise, adapt to evolving customer needs, adopt new business models, collaborate across wide and diverse partnerships, and simplify complexity.

Forrester predicts cloud will thrive in 2025, with more users seeking out AI capabilities in the private cloud domain. To accelerate our Partners’ growth and drive value realization for customers, moving our customers to the cloud is clearly on the agenda. But why now?

Our customers want it

According to CIO Insights, 66% of CIOs plan to migrate on-premise storage and applications to the cloud in 2025. And why shouldn’t they?

There are the cold hard facts, like achieving 99.7 uptime with AWS. And then there’s the holistic, everyday stuff. The ability—and agility—to focus on running and growing their organization rather than maintaining legacy applications and infrastructure. There’s access to prepackaged industry and micro-vertical workflows, saving tons of time and money. And of course, an accelerated path to innovation, with Gen AI-powered tools at their fingertips. Making possible happen together

Recent global research from Infor uncovers how the most productive organizations are closing the ‘value void’ – the gap between technology’s promise and what is so often delivered.

How do we provide our customers with an amazing experience across their cloud journey and a tangible impact on their own growth? It’s not only about the functions and functionalities we bring to customers anymore; it’s about the integration.

As applications and platform converge at an unprecedented pace, Infor is creating opportunities for our partners to scale their business as they evolve and expand, enjoying deep profit pools across the customer lifecycle.

Industry cloud is at the crux of collaboration

With Infor’s deep industry specificity and our strong multi-tenant cloud foundation built on AWS, our partners can scale unique industry capabilities across the globe. Not only does this give our customers the AWS gold standard, but also it allows for the implementation of other AWS cloud services, enabling our partners to expand their industry offering as a result.

Partnership—like this—is greater than the sum of its parts. By joining forces with Infor, our partners can deliver micro vertical-specific solutions and services based on combined capabilities. It’s sort of a two-for-one deal that works for everyone. Most importantly of all, it empowers them to tailor and commercialize these capabilities to create new business opportunities through focus in a crowded market and drive differentiated value across the entire customer lifecycle.

Ultimately, our customers want to unlock value. Meeting their evolving needs and supporting their success results in mutually beneficial outcomes.

Re-inventing partner experience

We have redesigned our partner experience with a new, unified program focused on driving successful customer outcomes with a cloud modern approach. Our Infor Partner Network (IPN) Program 2025 is designed to fuel and accelerate our ecosystem growth. Giving partners the unique skills, tools, benefits and support they need to thrive, our objective is to collaborate, resulting in opening doors to enhanced industry innovation in today’s marketplace.

What’s changed? Well, we’ve modernized. We’re keeping our deep industry specificity. We’re now cloud modern, fully focused on driving SaaS adoption. And we’re looking to support our partners in a very different way than in the past to ensure delivery success and tangible business outcomes with maniacal customer centricity.

Act now to get a jump start on 2025

Our resolution for 2025? We’re committed to redefining your partner experience with Infor.

Is your new year’s goal to unlock your SaaS business? Time is running out: the deadline to enroll in the IPN Program 2025 and continue your partnership with Infor is December 30.

By joining the IPN Program, you are investing in growing your business, delivering amazing customer experiences, and co-innovating with Infor to increase your market share across the entire customer lifecycle.

Let’s make possible happen together. Enroll in the IPN Program 2025 today.