Infor Signs AWS Agreement, Brings GenAI to Marketplace

Global AWS partner Infor recently announced it had signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with AWS to deepen the provider’s ability to enable clients with AI adoption worldwide.

Infor signs SCA to strengthen decade-long AWS Partner status

Infor’s platform and services offerings are leveraged by over 60,000 organizations worldwide in a variety of niche verticals across several industries. The provider specializes in cloud-based software solutions and has worked with AWS for a decade, including its recent adoption of AI-enabled technology.

As early adopters of AWS’s generative AI innovations, including Amazon Bedrock, Infor will accelerate its ability to provide AI-driven solutions and insights that understand the unique operational challenges and opportunities at the industry micro-vertical level. This will ultimately lead to it helping clients to streamline operations and elevate customer experiences.

“Infor’s collaboration with AWS reinforces our dedication to helping businesses harness the power of generative AI,” said Jeanne Newberry, SVP of ecosystems and business development at Infor. “Our focus is to provide industry-specific cloud solutions across thousands of micro verticals globally that facilitate seamless digital transformation. This collaboration enhances our capacity to deliver superior, industry-specific technological advancements, such as agentic AI, to maximise our customers’ competitive differentiation.”

Infor says it is committed to delivering those solutions through the AWS Marketplace and continuing to leverage AWS solutions across its offerings.

“Over ten years of collaboration with Infor has proven that when AWS cloud capabilities meet specialised industry expertise, customers achieve remarkable outcomes,” said Chris Grusz, managing director of technology partnerships at AWS. “The 900% revenue growth in AWS Marketplace demonstrates the strong demand for Infor’s offerings on AWS. This Strategic Collaboration Agreement enhances our approach by integrating AWS’s generative AI technologies like Amazon Bedrock, enabling businesses across manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries to accelerate their digital transformation through AWS’s secure, scalable infrastructure.”

Infor continues its growth journey through AWS 

With 17,000 employees and customers in over 170 countries, Infor is a well-established AWS partner. Still, it reports massive growth within the AWS Marketplace and surrounding ecosystem.
The company highlights “significant milestones that underscore its commitment to driving transformative business outcomes for customers worldwide,” including:

• Doubling down on AWS Marketplace with over a 900% increase in revenue from 2023 to 2024.
• Driven deeper collaboration between companies and experienced a year-over-year increase of over 400% in co-sell launched deals from 2023 to 2024.
• Achieving six AWS Competencies, demonstrating Infor’s rigour and expertise in delivering innovative solutions powered by AWS and Infor’s ability to help organisations around the world transform their operations and achieve measurable business outcomes.

Infor says the new agreement will enable it to seamlessly integrate its Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) expertise with AWS’s cloud and AI services, strengthening its offerings and ensuring scalability, security, and performance. Ultimately, customers can deploy digital transformation projects faster with automated processes and the expertise of two massive players in the cloud space.

“The enhanced collaboration between Infor and AWS will be instrumental in driving innovation within our business,” said Elisabetta Venezia, the group director of ERP system & data management at Infor client GMM Pfaudler. “By leveraging Infor’s deep industry expertise and AWS’s advanced cloud and AI capabilities, we can access cutting-edge solutions that help us stay competitive in a fast-changing market. This collaboration empowers us to streamline operations, enhance decision-making, maintain good quality of data, and deliver better outcomes for our customers, ensuring we not only thrive today but are well-positioned for future growth.”

Infor isn’t the only company lately to sign a strategic agreement with AWS. Learn more about why Coralogix is teaming up with the hyperscaler.