Welcome to the Infor PM Connections

Welcome to the Infor PM (Performance Management) Connections. We've designed PM Connections to make it easier for you to connect with peers and participate in tailored educational tracks that are relevant to your particular industry and product area. Inforum 2008 will offer fewer general sessions, a greater focus on specific solutions to business challenges, and more opportunities to network with others.

Likewise, PM Connections offers you the best of both worlds—the flexibility to attend activities that will help you to get the most of your current solutions—with the added value of exploring new options to extend your enterprise and meet your future business challenges.

Take part in specific sessions to get the most out of your Inforum 2008 experience. Here is an overview of what you can expect:

Product strategy and roadmaps specific to your solution or industry
Dynamic keynote address by a recognized thought leader
Networking with peers using the same products in the same industries
In-depth learning on solutions most relevant to your specific business pursuits
New products to extend your software investment and meet your specific business challenges
Industry, solution, and product experts
Infor partners presenting innovative technology solutions
Lab-based product training

We also will be providing a tailored conference agenda to assist you in better planning your time to best benefit your needs, interests, and investment. Knowing that our customers rely on our PM solutions, we have designed the PM Connections to deliver a comprehensive and enriching educational experience designed to help you meet your company's goals and objectives.

Detailed information about the educational sessions will be made available as we continue to roll out the agenda, so come back often to your PM Connections for updates. We promise it will be worth it.

P.S. Stay tuned for our big announcement about our exciting headline entertainment. It promises to be a very exciting event.

Opening general session

Get ready to gear up for Inforum 2008 by attending a special PM Connections keynote address on Tuesday, Oct. 14th. This opening general session will bring together all of our Financial Management and PM customers.

Featured keynote speaker
Lynn Brewer, author, Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story

Lynn Brewer retells the riveting account of her career at Enron, her decision to blow the whistle, and her fateful meeting with Ken Lay—just two weeks before his untimely death. In her nearly three years at Enron, she was responsible for risk management in energy operations, the ecommerce initiatives for Enron's water subsidiary, traded power in the California markets, and oversaw competitive intelligence for Enron Broadband Services. During her tenure she witnessed numerous instances of illegal and corrupt dealings, including bank fraud, espionage, power price manipulation, and the gross overstatements to the press, public, and financial world. Lynn will bring her knowledge and insight into the areas of risk and compliance that continue to challenge financial executives.

Session highlights

These sessions will include presentations by our PM customers who will offer core product sessions, tips and techniques, and best practices. Here is a preliminary look at some of our planned PM sessions:

International retailer will discuss how the company manages its worldwide franchise retail business using PM
Leading distributor to talk about the process of creating views and keywords for easier administration
Global manufacturer will reveal the historical and future path of PM in its organization
Health care provider to divulge how PM is used to improve results across the organization

Fast budget cycles and driver-based planning
Faster monthly closes and public reporting
Using PM on top of your ERP and financial systems

How to extend the value of your models with Infor PM Office Plus
Basics of Infor PM Application Studio for PM 10 and MPC users—learn how to create and publish structured, dynamic reports
Features and functionality in Infor PM 10—learn how the enhancements in this latest release can help your organization
Data loading capabilities in Infor PM solutions
How to build an executive dashboard for maximum impact
Introduction to Infor PM OLAP server administration
Common customizations to Infor PM Business Process Applications (BPA) that can be used to support or refine user activities
Plus hands-on sessions

Best practices in managing the Infor PM Business Process Applications (BPA) workstation
Optimize financial consolidation performance—from application design to deployment
How to successfully implement a group reporting and consolidation system
Building effective and efficient formulas and allocations rules
Create reports and analysis that your users will love
Infor representatives will discuss how the company managed its own financial processes and supporting technology during an intense acquisition period utilizing our own solutions

Check back often as we will be expanding the session content throughout the coming months and providing recommendations to assist you with your Inforum 2008 planning.

Get connected at Inforum 2008. Driving performance is all about taking your company to the next level and what better way to do that than by utilizing these unique networking opportunities. We've created them to help you drive your business performance by making the right connections.

Birds-of-a-Feather

Inforum 2008 will feature our popular Birds-of-a-Feather roundtable sessions, allowing you to connect with your peers in a small group atmosphere about specific topics that are of interest to you and your company. You can prearrange a Birds-of-a-Feather session ahead of the conference or set up additional sessions on-site. We also encourage you to submit your discussion topic ideas ahead of Inforum 2008.

Click here to submit a Birds-of-a-Feather session.

Enterprising Square

This unique setting will provide you with an informal, central networking environment designed to bring pioneering people together between conference activities. Enterprising Square is structured around the same 11 primary tracks as the educational and technical sessions, generating an easily accessible setting for you to connect with others from your product community.

Let's Do Lunch

During lunchtime each day, we'll set aside designated sections marked with appropriate signage so you can easily gather with other members of your PM Connections team.

Solutions Expo

Inforum 2008's Solutions Expo will present you with an exclusive chance to explore and educate yourself about advancements from Infor and more than 70 Infor partners. This setting will provide the backdrop to meet and talk with our strategic development and implementation specialists about which Infor partner products and services can best extend the value of your current investment in our solutions. Take advantage of this occasion and make the most of Inforum 2008 by learning from the experts.