Traditionally, almost all business intelligence and analytics solutions were designed as general-purpose platforms or desktop tools suitable for any industry, department, or use case. That does mean, of course, that the burden of developing data models, data pipelines, dashboards, and reports falls to the customer. They effectively start with a 'blank sheet of paper,' which, in theory, can be developed to fit the organization's exact needs. However, the reality is that the organization may not have either the skills, resources, or time to develop an analytics solution that quickly meets business requirements.

The answer to avoiding this overhead of entirely homegrown analytics is to use a modern analytic application that can deliver ready-to-use analytics, right "out-of-the-box." Deployment and adoption of these analytic applications are accelerated because of built-in content developed by industry domain experts that understand the industries, roles, data, business applications, and specific analytics required by typical business user personas. A significant amount of development time can be saved because this domain-expertise-driven content can replace typical internal development processes.

As the manufacturing world continues to evolve to meet new challenges, there’s a step-change in innovation for the products and services that are delivered and supported. Many industry insiders are expressing the need for a focus on driving sustainable (and profitable) business growth. Deloitte suggests digital investment and supply chain resilience as the key pillars. Partnerships are also increasingly important to achieving sustainable business growth, whether that’s upstream or downstream within your supply chain or enabling partners such as application and technology providers.

In all of those partnering scenarios, it’s important to have a common understanding of your desired outcomes, so you can ensure you’re all speaking the same language, which helps shorten the time to value. Manufacturing is shifting towards industry-specific applications and these applications are now nearly always delivered in the cloud to maximize adoption, flexibility, availability, and security, as well as reducing through-life cost of ownership. In fact, Gartner forecasts end-user public cloud spending to grow by 18% through 2021.

Your Tips & Trips delivered today by our very own Mr. M3, Sean Conner. In just under 3 minutes, he demonstrates configuring a drill back.

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Your Tips & Trips delivered today by our very own Mr. M3, Sean Conner. In just 2:23, he shows you the Power of Ctrl+D. It's Slick. Super. and Easy.

Click Here to watch how Ctrl+D is a great function if you want to manipulate which panels you want to go to in a single session.

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Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers continue to increase their collaboration in various ways, whether this be through robotic process automation (RPA), data collection and exchange, or other methods that provide insights for scalability. With true, multi-enterprise collaboration, there are cross-training opportunities to convey customer needs and preferences for product innovation, giving manufacturers the ability to make rapid adjustments in real time. Collaborative behavior makes this happen, and it all starts with transparency.

However, building real trust, collaboration, and transparency goes beyond using a specific technology or workflow. At its core, this is about changing the culture of automotive OEMs and throughout their suppliers at every tier. Automotive companies who are true leaders in the industry consider the health of the entire supply network, not just their immediate interests. Making this change—as with almost all substantive transformations—requires change be from the top executive level down.

In just 6 minutes, Sean Conner (our very own Mr. M3) will provide an overview on widget configuration and explain how Infor OS monitors work.

And as a bonus, he’ll also show you how to share your homepages with your friends.

Welcome to OS Monitors 101!!!

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When you enable Enterprise Search you'll search faster and easier.

In today’s Infor CloudSuite M3 video tip, Sean Conner will show you how, in just two minutes, to configure enterprise search and save you hours of work down the road.

Enterprise search is a time saver because it searches EVERYTHING and ALL AT ONCE!

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Welcome to the next video in our "Do You Know Infor CloudSuite M3" series.  It's about how to set up and use your Infor CloudSuite M3 - Customer Service Homepage. Today Sean Conner, Mr. M3 will show you how to customize your home page and tap into all the analytics you will ever need.

He'll show you how to get a snapshot of what’s going on and access rich minefields of information. This information will also give you great business insights with no guessing and help in your decision-making capabilities.

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What is Sean going to do today in his latest "Do You Know Infor CloudSuite M3"?  Something pretty exciting. Something you won't want to miss. He's going to configure a monitor to drill back into late order lines.

There are two videos out there that will help you do this – and he will share those with you during today’s Infor M3 – Drill Back into Late Order Lines.

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Tip #6 – Display pictures and documents on your homepage in a widget

Does your home page look like this? If not …. It should.

But how?

Today we show you how to configure the IDM widget so that you can show pictures and documents.

Watch the latest "Do You Know Infor CloudSuite M3" video with Sean Conner and learn how to do this in just 2 short minutes.

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