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What’s new in Infor PM 10
Ü Infor PM 10 brings together capabilities for business processes and
analytics to deliver a foundation to quickly integrate, analyze, format, and
deliver answers to questions about business performance.
Combining business processes and analytics
Infor PM 10 is an integrated suite of Performance Management (PM) software that
brings together business process applications from Extensity MPC and analytics from
Systems Union MIS to provide a complete, closed-loop offering that can be used to
improve operational and financial performance. Infor PM 10 demonstrates Infor’s
commitment to enrich, extend and evolve its portfolio of software to deliver greater
value to customers.
Infor PM 10 provides customers with a foundation to quickly integrate, analyze, format,
and deliver answers to questions about their business performance. With Infor PM 10,
companies can better monitor, measure, and manage their business through
capabilities including:
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Planning and Budgeting
Forecasting
Financial Consolidation
Financial Reporting
Strategic Management
Multidimensional Analysis
Production Reporting
Microsoft Office Integration
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New product names
General enhancements
Infor™ has renamed the Extensity MPC product suite as part
of the Infor PM solution suite. The MPC product suite is now
referred to as the Infor PM Business Process Applications
(BPAs). Infor has also renamed Systems Union MIS
products as part of the Infor PM suite. The MIS products
listed below are now included in the Infor PM Business
Specific Analytics platform. New names for the Extensity
MPC and Systems Union MIS products include:
Over 50 user requested enhancements have been
added to Infor PM 10. These new features and
capabilities include:
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New Name (Former Name)
Infor PM Business Process Applications (Extensity MPC)
Infor PM Planning and Budgeting (Extensity MPC Planning,
Extensity MPC Budgeting)
Infor PM Forecasting (Extensity MPC Forecasting)
Infor PM Financial Consolidation (Extensity MPC
Financial Consolidation)
Infor PM Financial Reporting (Extensity MPC
Production Reporting)
Infor PM Strategic Management (Extensity MPC
Strategic Planning)
Infor PM EIF Integration (Extensity MPC
OpenLink Enterprise)
Infor PM Application Studio (MIS onVision)
Infor PM Office Plus (MIS Alea Excel Integration, MIS Plain)
Infor PM OLAP (MIS Alea)
In addition, Infor has streamlined the look-and-feel across
all Infor PM 10 products with a consistent color scheme
and menus.
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Process and data audit trails
New gauges and dashboard builder
Status monitors
Notes are displayed when hovering over a cell with cursor
Member level drag-and-drop navigation
New employee summary report in Detail Planning
Automatic data scaling and formatting
Reusable report templates
Financial consolidation
With Infor PM 10, financial consolidation capabilities have
been extended to help companies close their books more
quickly, more efficiently and with more confidence.
Complex Group Accounting has been made easier with:
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Effective ownership calculations
Support for group ownership at less than 100%
Support for currency translation adjustments in
ownership processing
Infor also provides a Consolidation Status Monitor with
a visual overview of all financial schedules and how new
journals impact the company’s overall consolidation.
Within the Consolidation Status Monitor, users can
take advantage of the Run Consolidation feature to
automatically determine the most efficient consolidation
paths. Run Consolidation initiates a series of full and/or
incremental consolidation requests depending on the data
status, instead of running a full consolidation at each node.
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Planning and Budgeting
OLAP
Model Manager, which is found within Infor PM Planning,
now includes the ability to:
Infor PM Planning can take advantage of OLAP data
and models contained in Infor PM OLAP. In addition,
performance improvements in this OLAP solution include:
Synchronize structure between two existing and similar
relational BPA models
Synchronize structure and data with the new Infor PM
OLAP models
As a result, it is now easier to move applications and
portions of applications from test and development servers
to production servers and to update the common parts of
divisional models. With new OLAP capabilities, users can
choose the model type that best meets their business
needs, and easily integrate structure and data
across models.
Strategic Management
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New administrative features include the ability to:
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Strategic Management has updated Member Selection,
which allows for multiple member selections at the same
time, and includes a Find capability to help locate specific
members in long member lists. Users can easily customize
additional tolerance ranges for visual status reporting –
providing more insight into how the business is
executing to plan.
Infor PM Application Studio can support the BPA relational
model type. This capability provides users with an entirely
new zero-footprint web client option for HTML reporting and
analysis on BPA data. In addition to integration with BPAs,
new features in Application Studio include:
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"Undo" option for data loads
Single load for intercompany and financial data
Table-to-table loading from Microsoft® SQL Server
and Oracle® databases
Purge audit trails
Start and End date for users and groups
Individual password security settings for users
Web and Excel reporting
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Infor PM EIF Integration provides new features to make the
data loading process even easier:
Limit the number of online backups
Administer databases on remote servers
Update roles via administration console window
User security settings have also been enhanced for
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance:
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Data integration
Increased the number of elements per dimensions
now allowing 1 million in each
Increased the number of possible databases to 128
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Multiple hyperblock output for stronger relational
data support
New report wizard
Easier conversion of onVision projects
Ability to open multiple reports within one web session
Infor PM Office Plus, an Excel-based client, can access BPA
relational models and provides BPA users with an enhanced
user interface and formatting capabilities. Other features in
Office Plus include:
Clicking the Undo button for a load restores the fact table
data to its pre-load state. Now, core financial data and
intercompany data stored in separate tables can be loaded
at once, with a single load file. Users can also load directly
from tables in the source system, or in a data warehouse.
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OLAP cube modeling
Standardized reporting with a report repository
Direct connectivity and report management between Alea
Excel Integration and Plain
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Platforms and technology
In addition to existing platform and technology support,
support is now available for:
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Windows Vista
Office 2007
About Infor.
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organizations. With experience built-in, Infor’s solutions
enable businesses of all sizes to be more enterprising and
adapt to the rapid changes of a global marketplace. With more
than 70,000 customers, Infor is changing what businesses
expect from an enterprise software provider. For additional
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