Infor PM 10 is Here
On November 14, Infor released Infor PM 10, a performance management suite that includes applications for planning and budgeting, financial consolidation, strategic management, sales forecasting, OLAP data analysis, reporting, and presentation of performance data in a Microsoft Excel-like format. The new suite, which has an Infor look and feel, is the result of the company’s efforts to combine the consolidation, planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities of Geac/Extensity with Systems Union’s business intelligence and analytics functionality. In addition to the merging of the two entities’ key product lines, this release introduces a few all-new features. An auto-consolidation feature enables PM 10 to determine, based on the data set, whether to perform a full or incremental consolidation — thus speeding up, potentially substantially, the financial close process. A status-view-monitor feature provides insight into how each entity’s budget rolls up to headquarters and where divisional budgets stand in the submission/approval process. And a new data-trail feature provides information about who changed what within the financial data and when they changed it.
