New York City-based Infor Inc. plans to lure its customers in the Philippines to adopt its cloud solution as the International Data Corp. (IDC) has said cloud information-technology (IT) infrastructure spending climbed to nearly 30 percent of overall IT infrastructure spending in the first quarter, up from 26.4 percent a year ago.
“We see the Philippines as one of our fastest-growing markets,” Infor Vice President of Sales for Asean and India Helen Masters told the BusinessMirror during the media forum last week. “It’s a wonderful market for us. We have a strong customer base that we want to further grow and develop and move into our cloud-based solutions,” Masters said, noting the company posted a triple-digit growth in the country last year.
During her forum presentation, Masters cited Lina Group of Cos. subsidiary Air21 Global Inc. (A21GI) as example. She said A21GI uses the Infor system to maximize speed and accuracy in accessing and integrating data in its operations, therefore eliminating redundant, manual process and streamlining business functions.
Masters said the company is optimistic given that the Philippines, just like Indonesia, has a growing young market. With the aging work force population moving out, a trend that is seen across the many industries, Infor continues to develop solutions that are social in platform to help attract the youth that are more mobile-centric in joining the organizations it serves, she added.
According to IDC’s Kuba Stolarski, “cloud IT infrastructure growth continues to outpace the growth of the overall IT infrastructure market, driven by the transition of workloads onto cloud-based platforms.”
“Both private and public cloud infrastructures have been growing at a similar pace, suggesting that customers are open to a broad array of hybrid deployment scenarios as they modernize their IT for the third platform,” Stolarski, research manager for Server, Virtualization and Workload Research at IDC, was quoted in July as saying.