No Way to Doubt Charles Phillips as New Infor CEO
Now that Charles Phillips is the CEO of enterprises resource software company Infor, a lot of people has been curious as to why would the company hire someone who has been the president of the rival company Oracle, for more than seven years. Truth be told, Infor Chairman Jim Schaper has been looking for a successor for so many years. For him, hiring Phillips for the position he had vacated was the best decision for Infor ever. Now, some people might not see the logic in this, but below are the more-than-impressive achievements that Phillips has achieved for the company he has worked for before which makes him an over-qualified CEO for Infor:
- In 2003, after two weeks of being recognized as one of the database leaders for Oracle, he stunned the whole industry with an aggressive bid for PeopleSoft, which was just a week later when the latter announced its purchase of J.D. Edwards. According to PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway, it was a big move to prevent the company from closing after its second quarter. This marked for one of the biggest acquisitions in the history of Oracle. The acquisition spree went on from company to company such as Siebel, Hyperion, BEA and Sun.
- Aside from major acquisitions, Phillips is also the man responsible for the number of deals that Oracle bagged because of his efforts. Among the list of deals he had enclosed were with Agile Software. Retek and Phase Forward.
- Charles Phillips led Oracle’s battle with its biggest competitor SAP by alleviating the high end of the market standard. He started a very smart strategy called as the “wedge strategy” by surrounding the ERP with the best sets of software for human resources, CRM and PLM, performance management, transportation management, demand planning and others. In this brilliant move, he did not directly attack SAP but it had eventually and successfully infiltrated huge SAP shops.
- The inevitable would of course happen, he was promoted as one of the presidents of Oracle and helped triple the sales with his top-of-the-line performance. He multiplied the value of the company by triple of billions of dollars during his tenure and called it as the power of execution.
With all of that being stated, there is no question now as to why Jim Schaper hired someone from the rival company. He completely believes that Charles Phillips is a professional and has no intentions or any ulterior motive for Infor. Schaper is just more than glad that he brought a visionary billion-dollar-generator onto Infor’s territory. Needless to say, it will be a very shudder-inducing ride for Infor now that Phillips is on their side to create a new line of accomplishments in their favor.
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