Infor SunSystems Cloud

➝ 24x7 support and business continuity capabilities

➝ Guaranteed system availability service level agreement (SLA)

➝ Automatic monitoring and scaling of your cloud environments

➝ Automatic and ongoing updates of functional enhancements

➝ Automatic and ongoing updates for security and compliance

➝ Removal of data silos

➝ Enhanced collaboration tools using our cloud technology stack

➝ Reduced reliance on internal IT staff

➝ Software as a service (SaaS) model frees up capital

➝ Existing customers can retain detailed historical records

When IT resources are focused on maintaining existing infrastructure and on-premises solutions, they become unavoidably stuck in a defensive operational mode— keeping things up and running becomes an overwhelming effort. As a result, teams struggle to get ahead of the basics to
support more strategic initiatives that can facilitate organizational change. SunSystems’s cloud-based business solutions empower an organization to take risks and pursue business opportunities, such as rapidly adding new geographical financial units without adding expensive infrastructure. It becomes possible to take advantage of innovative functionality more quickly and
cost-effectively than was historically possible. If an initiative succeeds, it can be scaled seamlessly to a wider audience. This unprecedented level of flexibility enables companies to foster a culture that’s conducive to implementing bold ideas—not just within IT, but throughout the entire organization.

The SunSystems cloud-based solution allows businesses to rapidly establish new financial business units or expand
existing financial operations in virtually any region without having to physically be there, which substantially minimizes
both capital investments and risk. It also offers better business outcomes by allowing remote offices to operate seamlessly
alongside other business units and headquarters and make it easier to share information with business partners regardless of supplier location.

Keeping aligned with continuous changes in software, security, and regulations is complex and expensive. It’s a daunting effort, and yet, businesses have no option but to do their best to comply.

Compliance is an area where cloud-based solutions offer extraordinary benefits to businesses eager to increase productivity and reduce risk. In a cloud-based SaaS world, security and compliance updates can be pushed out automatically to the entire organization as soon as they’re available. Not only does this simplify the process of keeping systems up to date, it also ensures that everyone in the company has access to the latest information and tools to do their jobs effectively. SunSystems can help with ongoing security compliance and governance requirements.

Capitalizing on this opportunity to rein in the complexity, cost, and risk of non-compliance is relevant to nearly every business. The approach is particularly valuable for firms operating in multiple countries, which can make regulatory and compliance challenges even more complex and costly.

In today’s economy, downtime means lost revenue. Companies can’t afford to have essential applications offline. If you cannot perform critical financial processes such as supplier payment runs or issuing sales invoices, there is a risk of incurring financial penalties, adversely affecting your cash flow and damaging your company's reputation. And in a world that’s always “switched on,” keeping the proverbial lights burning around the clock is fast becoming a business imperative.

The SunSystems cloud solution is available every day, 24 hours a day, no matter where employees are located or what devices they’re using. Because cloud computing providers deploy equipment that is typically far more reliable than anything most companies would use for their own on-premises solutions, we can achieve system up-time levels that are difficult to match.

SunSystems’s cloud-based software can help free up capital while delivering the flexibility to meet evolving organizational needs. With this switch in revenue reporting, companies will have access to funds for expansion and new business initiatives, and the ability to respond to growing market opportunities more quickly.

For many organizations, emerging markets and remote locations comprise the next great business frontier. However, capitalizing on those opportunities can be complex and expensive, as getting the technical skills and equipment in place to establish operations is not a trivial undertaking. Combine that with variables to be answered, such as what product knowledge skills will be available to support legacy on-premises financial systems, or what types of new regulations and reporting requirements will have to be met. To do their jobs better, faster, and more flexibly, workers have turned increasingly to “shadow systems” outside of officially sanctioned core IT applications. Personal mobile devices are used to tap into the company network. Teams can also use personal file-sharing accounts such as Dropbox and Google Drive to collaborate outside of approved corporate IT environments. In short, workers are implementing their own cloud-based solutions to achieve the ease of use and functionality they need but aren’t getting from their own IT departments.

These applications aren’t necessarily “bad,” yet if used in the wrong way or not surrounded by the proper security infrastructure and protocols, they can expose businesses
to unnecessary risk, including theft of intellectual property, lost data, and even damage to a company’s reputation. With SunSystems’s cloud-based applications, organizations can help employees to do their jobs better, faster, smarter, and more collaboratively. The Infor Cloud technology stack provides a consumer-grade user interface, mobile connectivity, alerts, and configurable workflows to enhance collaboration and productivity. The result: decreased company risk, as employees no longer have to enlist external sources to optimize job performance.