The company I’ve been interning for is Infor, a privately held enterprise software company that develops industry specific software built for the cloud. By industry specific, we mean that a single piece of software cannot be used to meet the needs of a Food & Beverage company AND an Oil company because these industries have very specific and different needs.
Infor has offices all over the United States and the rest of the world, but their HQ is here in NYC on 20th and 6th Ave. It was founded in 2002 and has more than 10,000 employees worldwide. The company was initially named Agilysis, based in Atlanta, and was constructed through a series of acquisitions. In 2004, they changed their name to Infor Global Solutions. By 2010, Infor’s board members appointed a new CEO, Charles Philips, and 3 other senior executives. Two years later, Infor moved their headquarters from Atlanta to New York City.
It was in 2012 where Infor started following current design and web trends. Enterprise software is usually ugly, but Infor sought to make it beautiful and intuitive. Hook & Loop was founded as Infor’s internal design agency full of designers, developers, writers, and filmmakers to rebrand the company. A new focus on UX/UI was pursued to make all of Infor’s products follow a unified design. Hook & Loop is separated into 3 teams: Brand, Product, and Video. I am working on the Brand team.
Here’s a news article talking about Infor’s sponsorship of the Brooklyn Nets. Infor’s logo will be a patch on the Nets’ jerseys this up coming season. However, the sponsorship also includes Infor developing analytic software specifically made for the Nets. The software will analyze on-court performance and also keep track of the team’s travel and training information. All of their data will be centralized in one place.
This article is about Nordstrom replacing their current POS software, built on the Oracle platform, with Infor’s Rhythm for commerce software.
