Searching for EPM client references

Hi,

We are currently implementing Infor FSM and considering also implementing EPM for Eliminations/Consolidations & Financial Reporting. We are looking for both functional and technical references with insight in the following areas:

Technical: performance, scalability, availability, upgrades, required Application Studio expertise/experience

Functional: usability, processing time, OOB functionality/minimal customizations, upgrade impact

Thanks in advance!

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Matthew Nye

Christina,

Would be happy to have detailed conversation or if youve got more specific questions I can address those. Additionally we can connect you with some of our clients for their perspective. Feel free to reach out. matt@able-ventures.com

Regards,

Matthew Nye

christina-gram

Thank you, Matthew. I'll have someone on your team reach out to you to discuss.

christina-gram

Sorry, on OUR team. :-)

mark-raynham

Hi Christina,

I work as an independent consultant with over 12 years experience with Infor EPM and in particular the Financial Consolidation module as well as bespoke modelling so if you need any advice or help with the implementation then please feel free to get in touch at mark@raymarkconsulting.co.uk.

Many thanks,

Mark

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unknown

Dear Christina,

If you need information regarding Infor EPM Consolidation, we can give you information regarding this matter. We have been working with the solution for more than 15 years. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me: mherrero@altin.es

Peter Chapman

Hi,

I just jotted down some notes on your questions – hope these help. Ive tried to split them out between MT (Multitenant) and OnPrem environments, also some general notes where applicable.

Technical

Area	Environment	Notes
Performance	MT	MT is ok – can be a bit slower due to latency and where your server is located. IOS is very fast and responsive in an MT environment.
	OnPrem	Is very good on modern hardware. This can be scaled to your requirements – you can even enable clustering if you run into performance issues.
Scalability	MT	Very scalable – Infor will give you what you need to run it (its all about the subscription. )
	OnPrem	Only limited by your IT budgets!
Availability	MT	Very good again – on the environments we work on (we have many customers on MT environments) there have been very few no access events. The cloud team send out notifications of any service degradations or upgrades. The times are notified to you in advance.
	OnPrem	This would be dependent on your IT team.
Upgrades Required	MT	Upgrades are handled by the Cloud team and are seamless to you. The only components you would need to upgrade would be any local installs of Application Studio or App Engine on a monthly basis
	ONPrem	Monthly patches are released by Infor. Your IT team would need to patch the server/servers and then also patch your Application Studio client. Of course you may decide to not apply a monthly patch regime – it would be up to you and your organization (though any support issues you will always be told to
Application Studio Expertise	General	Application Studio is a fantastic report writing tool and like any skill requires you to work at it. I have worked for a very long time with the tool so I know it intimately (although it can still surprise you)- I like to call it ‘excel light’ – it is very excel like and you can learn the basics of creating a report in 2 days with the standard Infor Application Studio courses. However to create more complex reports can take longer. Like excel – it’s a skill that takes practice and time to develop. Knowing and understanding your dataset is also key. Application Studio / EPM can connect to multiple data sources – and it is excellent at being able to combine these disparate datasets into a contiguous reporting solution.
	MT	Can be slow depending on the location of your MT environment and also the latency between your Application Studio client and the MT environment. Also large complex reports may take longer to develop
	OnPrem	Usually very fast to create and maintain reports.

Area	Environment	Notes
Usability	General	EPM is a toolkit – designed to give you maximum flexibility for giving users to consume their data in a variety of ways. There are new features coming on board which will make it even better in the future. Dashboards are modern looking and quick to display. The dashboards can be linked together. There are several predefined applications for Budgeting and planning / Financial Consolidation and workforce budgeting. These can be used by your organization (depending on licence) EPM has has its own build in staging area and a very powerful scripting / ETL tool built in.
	MT	There are slightly more restrictions on data use compared to OnPrem. With EPM MT you also get 3 environments which are maintained by Infor (in effect PRD / TEST / TRAIN)
	OnPrem	Very flexible in being able to consume virtually ANY data from any data source.
Processing Time	General	Depends on what you mean by processing time. It is an OLAP tool, and rules and aggregations of data happen automatically if setup in your system correctly.
OOB Functionality	General	EPM is a toolkit, and also has some pre-built applications. To get the best use of these pre-built applications – your organization has to ‘work’ the same way as the applications are built
Minimal Customization	General	To get the most out of EPM – it is best to start building your own applications. To use the pre-built applications – there are not many customizations you want to make
Upgrade Impact	MT	Downtime of a few hours per month on a notified scheduled basis. New features or fixes may be added to the application and its important to read the release notes to see if they impact you. You will also need to upgrade any application studio clients
	OnPrem	Depending on your IT’s policies you determine when your patches are applied.

Hope this helps – if you need any further information, please let me know.

unknown

Thanks! This is very helpful.

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