Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

CLOUD HOSTING & MANAGED SERVICES DESIGNED FOR SX.EPRESENTED BY: AKTION ASSOCIATES

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

AGENDA

Cloud Adoption

Why Aktion?

Public vs. Private Cloud

Demo

Q/A

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

CLOUD ADOPTION BY SMB

Intuit Survey of Small Businesses:• 37% of Small/Medium Businesses have

adopted the Cloud

• By 2020, that number will be 78%

• 75% of new business startups are adopting Cloud

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

CLOUD ADOPTION

• E-Mail / Microsoft Office 365

• CRM / Salesforce.com

• Box / Dropbox

• Cloud PBX / VOIP

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

CYBER SECURITYSTATS YOU NEED TO KNOW The United States is #1 for cyber attacks

90% of malware is delivered by email

Mobile-malware is on the rise by more than 50% in recent years

Ransomware attacks have more than doubled from 2018 to 2019

25% of companies affected by ransomware pay $20,000+ to recover encrypted/stolen data

Cybercrime will create over $1.5 trillion in illicit profits in 2018

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

CLOUD BENEFITS Always On

Available anywhere

Enhanced Security Compliance / Security Disaster Recovery included Managed Back-ups Data Center SOC Certification

Easy to scale as users are added/removed

No more server to buy/maintain

Unlimited Helpdesk

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

WHY AKTION? Infor application expertise SX.e

FACTS

A+

Storefront

CloudSuite

Infrastructure/Network expertise

Distribution industry knowledge

Regional coverage/local staffing for onsite support

85+ Aktion employees focused on delivering application/IT support to Infor customers

Enterprise class, private Cloud & DR

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

AKTION DATA CENTERSDESIGNED FOR INFOR SX.E

Data Center 1 & 2 Redundancies Power WAN Firewalls Failover Network Switches All SSD Pure Storage Server Hardware

Network Operations Center (NOC) 24/7 Monitoring Help Desk Ticketing System

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

Our Approach to Cloud Services

Enjoy the benefits of using Infor software without the headaches

Aktion is responsible

Access to Network Operation Center (NOC)

Infor hosting is priced by resources and users

You own your application and your data

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE CLOUD

Infor Hosting Choices Unmanaged Public Cloud –

Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Managed Private Cloud – Aktion Cloud Services (ACS)

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE CLOUD COMPARISON

Granular Resources ✔ X X

SSD or SAS Disk ✔ ✔ ✔

Georedundant Disk ✔ Opt Opt

Backup Included ✔ X Opt

Unlimited Bandwidth ✔ $ $

Managed OS ✔ X X

Help Desk for Environment ✔ X X

Application DR Support ✔ X X

Local IT/Help Desk Support Opt X X

Infor Software Support Opt X X

3rd Party App Support Opt X X

Management ($/Server) ✔ $250-$500 ea $250-$500 ea

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

Demo

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

• 200 employees• 5000+ customers

• National software reseller & IT infrastructure provider focused on the Construction, Distribution, and Manufacturing industries

• Managed Services Provider (MSP)• Two, company-owned data centers

Infor Partnership• Largest NA Distribution Partner

• 25+ Year Gold Partner

• Infor Distribution Partner of the Year three years running (2017 - 2019)

• Supporting Infor Distribution ERPs:• A+• CloudSuite Distribution• FACTS• SX.e

About Aktion

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

ACMS STATS Hosted Servers Over 400 Client Services Hosted

Almost half of all hosted customers use an Infor Distribution product Including Infor FACTS, A+, SX.e, and

StoreFront users

99.99% uptime in the last five years

Over 140 Managed Services customers, with 6,500 devices under management

Less than one millisecond of disk response time

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

Questions?

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

http://www.aktion.com/acms-for-distribution/

Where to Learn More:

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

Mike KaufmanPractice Manager, Cloud & Managed ServicesPhone | 504.517.1503

Email | mkaufman@aktion.com

Want to Learn More?

Your choice is our priorityBooth #34/35

Thank You!