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“ We really believe in offering complete solutions , both on the platform and on the application . So if a functionality is not really our core , we partner with a third party ”
— Massimo Capoccia , Senior Vice President Infor OS , Technology
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“ If you want to do an enterprise search , you ’ re going to miss other types of data as well . So , a data warehouse is not complete , per se . You need a different type of storage that allows you to store structured and unstructured data all together in a very cheap way .”
This is where Infor ’ s Data Lake comes into play . “ The Data Lake stays on Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) AmazonS3 technology , which is available all the time and is very cheap and scalable ,” Capoccia explains , adding that the Data Lake stores “ all the transactions , all the market data , all the documents , all the IoT readings ”. “ Everything you think of when you think about data – it can go there ,” he adds . “ From the Infor Data Lake , we will integrate automatically with a data warehouse . We have an elastic search as well as an index , so you can search the data warehouse even built for indexing data like you would do with a Google search .”
Infor ensures the security of its Data Lake using its proprietary security platform . “ We have a huge investment in security ,” says Massimo . “ We provide
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