Infor buys into hospitality vertical

Infor announced the acquisition of hospitality solutions vendor, Vivonet, Inc.  The move demonstrates how the verticalization of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market is not slowing down anytime soon.  Additionally, Vivonet’s last-mile functionality allows customers to take advantage of Infor’s data analytics capabilities, such as applying predictive, machine learning, and artificial intelligence technologies to point-of-sale data.  As cloud vendors are pushed to deliver industry-specific capabilities, building the technologies from the ground up is becoming an unappealing and inefficient prospect.  Nucleus expects that consolidation of this nature will continue and accelerate as vendors look for the shortest path to answering the needs of their customers.