NEW YORK – Feb. 12, 2013 – Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Infor Orbis was selected as a Leader in the 2013 Marketing Resource Management (MRM) Gartner Magic Quadrant for its MRM solution(1). The report evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute against key marketing resource management criteria.

Leaders in the MRM market demonstrate exemplary performance. They deliver breadth and depth of integrated MRM functionality on large, enterprise-wide and global implementations that extend MRM across the marketing organization. Leaders successfully articulate business propositions that resonate with buyers.

“We believe this Leader placement further acknowledges our commitment to innovating within our MRM applications, especially post Orbis-acquisition, and underscores the effort our teams have put in, in terms of research & development and plans for continued overall integration of this technology into our Infor Epiphany suite of products in 2013,” said George Wright, senior vice president and general manager, CRM, Infor. “We are committed to staying in sync with what the industry demands, and will continue to use that knowledge to develop industry-leading tools our customers will need to remain successful marketers.”

Infor Orbis MRM enables marketers to maximize their return on marketing investment by providing exceptional visibility and collaboration amongst marketing teams, while also increasing brand control and speed to market. Orbis Global, which was recently acquired by Infor, has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant now for two consecutive years.

(1) Gartner Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management, Kimberly Collins, February 4, 2013

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About Infor Orbis

Infor Orbis, a leading SaaS-based Marketing Resource Management (MRM) company. Infor Orbis is a leading SaaS-based Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software company. Infor Orbis helps marketing professionals work smarter, faster and easier. Thousands of marketing users, in over 50 countries, use the cloud-based Infor Orbis MRM solution to enhance their marketing operations. Gartner, a leading IT research firm, recognizes Infor Orbis as a Leader in their Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management. Infor Orbis operates from offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and Singapore.

About Infor

Infor is the third-largest provider of enterprise applications and services, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, using ground-breaking technology that delivers a rich user experience, and flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

Leading SaaS-based Marketing Resource Management (MRM) Infor Orbis has been Acquired by Infor

San Francisco, CA - December 04, 2012

Infor Orbis, a leading provider of SaaS-based marketing resource management (MRM) software announced it has been acquired by Infor. Named a leader in Marketing Resource Management by Gartner, Infor Orbis will add enhanced capabilities to the Infor Epiphany enterprise CRM suite.

News Points

• Infor has acquired Infor Orbis, a leading provider of MRM software originally founded in Sydney, Australia, and now based in San Francisco. Infor Orbis has a strong presence in Asia-Pacific, and a fast-growing customer base in North America and EMEA.
• The acquisition of Infor Orbis further strengthens the Infor Epiphany suite, providing MRM capabilities that offer global marketers a holistic, closed-loop CRM solution that blends marketing, sales and service for more effective management of the marketing lifecycle.

Infor Orbis Quote

“With today’s announcement, we’re excited to make this important next step to expand our vision. I’m extremely proud of our team, and the dedication and hard work each and every member has shown to achieve this milestone.” said Grant Halloran, CEO and Co-Founder. “Infor is an outstanding company and we are excited to continue our journey together.”

About Infor Orbis
Infor Orbis is a leading SaaS-based Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software company. Infor Orbis helps marketing professionals work smarter, faster and easier. Thousands of marketing users, in over 50 countries, use the cloud-based Infor Orbis MRM solution to enhance their marketing operations. Gartner, a leading IT research firm, recognizes Infor Orbis as a Leader in their Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management. Infor Orbis operates from offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and Singapore.

About Infor

Infor is the third largest provider of enterprise applications and services, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, using ground-breaking technology that delivers a rich user experience, and flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both.

Orbis Global, a leading cloud-based, Marketing Resource Management software company, has achieved record customer acquisition and revenue growth in its North American operation.

For its financial year finishing June 30^th, the company recorded a 95% year on year growth in North America and continued momentum sees the company growing in the region at over 220% this coming year.

The company shifted its headquarters function from Sydney, Australia to San Francisco in September 2011 and has dramatically expanded its growth profile in North America since then.

“Orbis Global has become a market leader in the MRM space in North America, especially for customers looking for a genuine software-as-as service MRM offering”, said Brett Halloran, SVP of Sales and Marketing and Co-founder.

Orbis Global MRM was successfully adopted by leading marketers in North America such as Dell; GE Capital ; Barnes and Noble; and LSI.

“Our new customer win rates in North America have been nothing short of outstanding this year”, said CEO, President and Co-founder Grant Halloran. “Customers are recognizing that IOrbis Global provides one of the richest MRM offerings and matches this with the industry-leading interface. IOrbis Global MRM is the easiest MRM product to understand, looks better and is faster and easier to adopt and use, than our competitor’s products”.

Orbis Global recently expanded its team in the USA, including recruitment of Bob Tiecher, former MRM Sales Director at SAS.

In January 2012, Gartner, a large IT analyst firm, recognized Orbis Global as a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for MRM.

Grant Halloran, CEO and Co-founder, noted that “our new office enables our top management to focus more on our North American growth, and enables us to tap into the superb talent in marketing, sales and service delivery that the Bay Area, and San Francisco in particular, offers.”

 About Infor Orbis

Infor Orbis is one of the world’s leading Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software companies. Infor Orbis is passionate about helping marketers do their work smarter and faster in every part of the world. Thousands of marketers, in over 50 countries, in businesses of all sizes, use the cloud-based Infor Orbis MRM solution. Gartner, a leading IT research firm, has recognized Infor Orbis as a Leader in their Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management. We operate from offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and Singapore.

Infor Orbis CEO and Co-founder, Grant Halloran said, “We are very excited to have Frank join the Infor Orbis team. Frank has strong experience as a Silicon Valley CFO coupled with a decade of corporate finance and M&A experience with Lehman Brothers. He joins Infor Orbis at a time of rapid growth and he will play an integral role in helping us achieve our vision.”

As Chief Financial Officer, Frank Laurencio brings over 15 years of experience working with private and public technology companies in Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Prior to joining Infor Orbis, Frank served as CFO of various venture-backed Silicon Valley companies such as Smapper Technologies, Bubble Motion, and ONStor, a data storage company acquired by LSI.  Before his work with private companies, Frank served as VP of Finance at Alteon WebSystems, a publicly traded data networking pioneer acquired by Nortel Networks.  Earlier, Frank worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers and he began his career as a corporate finance attorney at the law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell.  Frank holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Princeton University.

“Joining Infor Orbis and working with co-founders, Grant and Brett Halloran, is a great opportunity. Infor Orbis is a fast growth company and has achieved a massive amount of success within the MRM industry. I am looking forward to working with the team during this exciting time” says Frank.

About Infor Orbis

Infor Orbis is one of the world’s leading Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software businesses. We are passionate about helping marketers do their work smarter and faster in every part of the world. Thousands of marketers in businesses of all sizes, use our Infor Orbis MRM marketing software applications in over 50 countries. Gartner, a large IT research firm, has recently recognized Infor Orbis as a Leader in their Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management. We operate from offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and Singapore.

After completing a thorough Continuing Assessment Visit by auditors BSI, one of the world’s leading certification bodies, Infor Orbis is proud to announce full compliance with ISO27001 as of Wed, 8th Feb, 2012.

“Maintaining ISO27001 certification is an extremely important result for Infor Orbis. This certification demonstrates to our customers worldwide our commitment to data integrity, security and quality at all levels of our organization.” said Grant Halloran, CEO and Co-founder of Infor Orbis. “This achievement means Infor Orbis customers are assured that they are doing business with an organization that can meet or exceed their needs in a timely manner. Successfully completing the rigorous process required for certification is indeed clear sign that we are devoted to continually improving our quality management systems.”

About Infor Orbis

Infor Orbis is a leading global provider of Marketing Management software. The company’s flagship product, Infor Orbis MRM™ delivers higher levels of efficiency, productivity and control to the marketing departments of mid to large-sized companies, ultimately leading to higher ROI on marketing investments. Infor Orbis MRM™ empowers marketers at many of the world’s leading brands in financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, telecommunications, retail, oil and gas, manufacturing and utilities. For more information on Infor Orbis please contact us or email enquiry@orbisglobal.com.

Infor Orbis moves from Visionary to Leader in 2012 in Marketing Resource Management

“Infor Orbis is extremely pleased to have been elevated from “visionary” in 2011 to Leader in 2012 in the Gartner MRM Magic Quadrant for 2012″, said Grant Halloran, CEO and co-founder of Infor Orbis. “The global MRM market continues to gain widespread acceptance as marketing teams seek to drive greater volumes and results from their limited resources, especially in light of recent staff and budget cuts.  Infor Orbis MRM™ enables marketers to maximize their return on marketing investment by providing exceptional visibility and collaboration amongst marketing teams, while also increasing brand control and speed to market. The technology has undeniably proven itself to be a critical tool for managing increasingly complex multi-channel marketing operations.”

Best of Breed MRM Software

Halloran noted that Infor Orbis was positioned as a Leader alongside 4 of the largest IT companies in the world. “Infor Orbis is the only best of breed MRM company outside the big 4 IT businesses that has a truly global presence, with people, customers and hosting centers in North America, Europe and the fast-growing Asia Pacific region. We have a compelling value proposition for marketers of all sizes in all areas of the world; a proposition centered around MRM specialization and superior service designed for the way marketers like to be serviced.”

Infor Orbis MRM™ enhances a company’s ability to coordinate and optimize the marketing resources at their disposal – whether they be people, suppliers, budgets or marketing collateral/assets. According to Gartner, MRM applications enable companies to:

• Plan and budget for marketing activities and programs (strategic planning and financial management).
• Create and develop marketing programs and content (creative production management).
• Collect and manage content and knowledge (digital asset, content and knowledge management).
• Fulfil and distribute marketing assets, content and collateral (marketing fulfilment).
• Measure, analyze and optimize marketing performance (MRM analytics).

Vendors in the Gartner’s MRM Magic Quadrant are assessed on their ability to support each of these five competency areas.

About Infor Orbis

Infor Orbis is a leading global provider of Marketing Management software. The company’s flagship product, Infor Orbis MRM™ delivers higher levels of efficiency, productivity and control to the marketing departments of mid to large-sized companies, ultimately leading to higher ROI on marketing investments. Infor Orbis MRM™ empowers marketers at many of the world’s leading brands in financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, telecommunications, retail, oil and gas, manufacturing and utilities. For more information on Infor Orbis please contact us or email enquiry@orbisglobal.com.

¹Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management” by K. Collins, January 30, 2012.

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ATLANTA – Nov 02, 2011

Infor, a leading provider of business software and services serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced a partnership with Infor Orbis, a leading provider of Marketing Resource Management (MRM) solutions.  The strategic partnership will enable Infor to integrate Infor10 CRM Enterprise (Epiphany) with Infor Orbis’s MRM software to offer global marketers a holistic, closed-loop CRM solution that blends marketing, sales and service for more effective management of the marketing lifecycle.

News Points

Through its partnership with Infor Orbis, Infor will be able to integrate Infor Orbis MRM and Infor10 CRM Enterprise to:

• Enable global marketers to effectively manage the marketing lifecycle in a unified solution across all programs and channels, providing enhanced data integrity and greater insight to improve marketing performance.
• Create effective collaboration and exchange between Marketing, CRM and Sales via real-time visibility into key enterprise marketing activities, materials and developments, including budgets and spend management, briefing, critical timelines, creative review and approval, resource optimization, and digital asset management.
• Standardize data and content-centric campaigning into one environment to help ensure marketing activities run on-time and on-budget.
• Enable marketers to regularly evaluate marketing plan strategies and assess processes and programs to continually improve speed to market and marketer productivity and decrease cost waste.
• More easily orchestrate the allocation of  work tasks, manage capacity issues and automate internal controls and approvals with built-in workflow, powerful digital asset management and field marketing content localization tools.

Infor Orbis Quote

“Marketing is undergoing a massive and rapid paradigm change. An explosion in channels has exponentially increased the complexity of managing a marketing department efficiently and effectively. Orchestrating thousands of marketing activities, processes, content creations, and the associated financial investments is a monumental challenge,” said Grant Halloran, CEO of Infor Orbis. “This exciting partnership will enable the marketer to gain competitive advantage by combining upstream process efficiency delivered by Infor Orbis MRM with the downstream marketing effectiveness generated by the Infor10 CRM suite.”

Infor Quote

“By creating a closed-loop CRM solution that bundles marketing, sales and service, we put the right tools to plan, execute and monitor multi-channel marketing campaigns at your fingertips across every point of contact with customers,” said Jackie Palmer, senior product manager, Infor. “Leveraging the best-in-class MRM functionality from Infor Orbis, Infor10 CRM Enterprise will become an even more efficient marketing solution that enables fast and informed decision making across all programs and channels.”

About Infor Orbis

Infor Orbis is one of the world’s leading Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software businesses with thousands of marketers in businesses of all sizes using Infor Orbis MRM in over 50 countries.  Infor Orbis operates from offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore.  For more information, visit www.orbisglobal.com.

About Infor

Infor is a leading provider of business software and services, helping more than 70,000 customers in 164 countries improve operations and drive growth. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

Infor Orbis golfers took part in the 2011 Golf Classic hosted by the St George Foundation. A full field of players and great weather made for an enjoyable day of golf and fundraising, with over $30,000 raised for charity.

The St George Foundation has been helping disadvantaged children and children with a disability since 1990. Thanks to the organizers for a great day, and to everyone who took part to raise funds for a good cause.

We would also like to extend congratulations to Juan Garcia, who has been appointed our new User Experience Specialist.  Juan has shown excellent attention to detail, and we look forward to the value he will bring for our users – through both his design of software interfaces, as well as input into new product features.