Infor's Innovation Summit 2026: Mature Industry Foundation Accelerates AI

The IDC industry research team recently attended Infor's Innovation Summit in Atlanta, GA, to meet with the company's executives and customers. This Market Note provides our observations and analysis from this event."Infor's focus since 2002 on developing Industry CloudSuites has put the company in a strong position to support AI use across its customer base. With $1.8 billion in annual revenue, 60 micro-verticals, and a fully multi-tenant cloud application portfolio spanning ERP, supply chain management (SCM), and product life-cycle management (PLM), Infor enables its customers to build unique, industry-specific, dynamic data models that support large language models (LLMs) for generative AI (GenAI) and agentic AI. At the 2026 Infor Innovation Summit, Infor highlighted customer successes and displayed developments that complement their mature cloud set of industry-specific offerings," says Jeff Hojlo, research vice president, Industry Ecosystems, and Engineering & Product Innovation Strategies.