Modernise with Confidence: Secure and Scale IM&E with Industry Cloud

CIOs in Industrial Machinery & Equipment (IM&E) shoulder a disproportionate share of transformation risk. You are expected to retire legacy ERP, strengthen cybersecurity, enable global scale, and integrate PLM, MES, and CPQ—without disrupting production. Add skills shortages and accelerating innovation cycles, and the pressure intensifies.

The objective is not modernisation for its own sake. It is modernisation that lowers risk, accelerates time to value, and delivers demonstrable ROI.

The CIO Reality: Transformation Under Constraint

Decades of customised ERP landscapes, brittle point integrations, and fragmented data environments have created significant technical debt. Security postures vary by site and system. Governance is inconsistent. Real-time visibility across engineering, production, and service remains hard to achieve.

As a result, ambitious IT roadmaps stall. Integration slows product introduction and configure-to-order cycles. Migration risk delays cloud adoption. The organisation invests heavily, yet business outcomes lag—creating the familiar value void between effort and impact.

Why Traditional IT Modernisation Falls Short

Generic cloud migrations often replace one form of complexity with another. Extensive reconfiguration recreates legacy custom code in new environments. Integration remains fragile. AI initiatives stall due to poor data foundations and scarce specialist skills. CIOs inherit risk without gaining real agility.

This pattern explains why many CIOs prioritise stability over innovation—even when legacy platforms constrain growth.

A Secure, Industry-Specific Foundation

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise takes a different approach. It is purpose-built for industrial manufacturing, embedding industry processes, data models, and controls directly into the platform. This reduces the need for heavy customisation and lowers migration risk from the outset.

Delivered as a secure, multi-tenant cloud service, CloudSuite provides governance, compliance, and security by design—supporting multi-site, multi-company IM&E operations while simplifying upgrade cycles and patch management.

Open Integration Without Fragility

Native connectivity across PLM, MES, CPQ, and Supplier Exchange creates a unified operational backbone. Data moves reliably from engineering through execution to service, enabling real-time visibility without brittle point integrations. This openness supports M&A, new site onboarding, and partner ecosystems without architectural rework.

Value-Guided AI, Applied Practically

Embedded AI and process intelligence are delivered where they matter most—within planning, execution, and exception management workflows. Through Infor’s Velocity Suite, CIOs can deploy process mining, automation, and AI assistance without assembling separate technology stacks or introducing governance risk.

These capabilities build on a clean, industry-specific data foundation, allowing AI adoption to be incremental, repeatable, and aligned to business outcomes rather than experimentation.

A Clear Path to Industry 4.0

Continuous innovation is delivered through a transparent roadmap that supports advanced analytics, automation, and connected operations. CIOs gain confidence that today’s architectural decisions will support tomorrow’s Industry 4.0 initiatives without forcing disruptive replatforming.

Evidence CIOs Can Trust

IM&E manufacturers are already delivering measurable IT and business outcomes.

• Solar Turbines streamlined operations end-to-end—from engineering and logistics to cash and aftermarket.
• Polisport connected systems and stakeholders through a cloud-powered transformation that increased real-time visibility and control.
• Gorlan eliminated silos, optimising resources and improving real-time data accuracy across the organisation.

Independent analyst validation reinforces these results. Infor has been recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP and by Nucleus Research, underlining the strength of its architecture and long-term roadmap.

From Technical Debt to Strategic Agility

With a secure, integrated, and industry-specific foundation, CIOs can modernise without compromise. Technical debt declines, integration becomes stable, and innovation arrives in manageable increments. Risk falls, uptime improves, and IT earns the confidence to lead transformation rather than contain it.

Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise enables CIOs to modernise calmly—supporting growth, security, and innovation with confidence in outcomes and long-term value. Get more with Infor and disrupt your industry, not your operations.