Infor is embedding AI agents, process intelligence and automation into its applications so that businesses can move past copilots and use AI within operational workflows. SiliconANGLE's Cheryl Knight previewed the company's Velocity Week, scheduled for October 7, in a piece updated October 5. The article notes that theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's streaming studio, is a paid media partner for the event and that sponsors have no editorial control.
The strategy
In April, Infor expanded its Industry AI Agent library to more than 100 agents and enhanced its Agentic Orchestrator, which coordinates agents across multistep workflows. The industry focus covers manufacturing, distribution, automotive, and food and beverage. For process intelligence, Infor combines Process Mining, Value+ automations, generative AI and the industry agents to help companies find bottlenecks and automate more of the resulting work.
What executives said
CEO Kevin Samuelson said Infor's industry-specific platforms and process intelligence give its agents “a level of contextual precision that generic AI simply cannot replicate.” He added: “We're selling measurable outcomes for the industries by meeting our customers where they are with AI.” Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, said: “It is no longer enough to know what an agent did.”
The adoption reality
Infor's Enterprise AI Adoption Impact Index found that 49% of surveyed organizations were still in the early stages of AI deployment. Security, sovereignty, compliance, skills shortages and unclear return on investment were cited as slowing adoption. The article names no specific customers.
Source: SiliconANGLE. This is an AI Business Watch summary of the original preview.