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Infor is a leading provider of business application software with more than 73,000 customers, recognised for providing specific functionality to the hospitality industry, speeding up deployment through built-in reports, graphs and key performance indicators (KPIs). At HITEC 2015, this business application giant announced the great effort and plans for its hospitality division.

In particular, Infor EPM for Hospitality is designed with advanced functionality to help implement and facilitate analysis. Another great feature is Office Plus which integrates directly with Microsoft Excel.

The rapid development of information technology along with the awareness of candidates for employer brand has created many difficulties in recruitment. Hence, employers need to upgrade the quality of their recruiting race or suffer the loss of talented candidates.

Read more: The Five Soft Skills Recruiters Look For in Candidates

Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) is an end-to-end ERP solution that provides comprehensive functionality suitable for any process mode, from make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO) to engineer-to-order (ETO). Like any other ERP systems, the basic goal of Infor CloudSuite Industrial is providing one central repository for all information to improve the flow of data across the organisation.

This business process management software enables an organisation to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business. ERP is a comprehensive tool that allows managers to utilize their resources.

The world of technologies recently is buzzing with a new terminology: “networked analytics”, which was marketed as the technology behind cloud-based Business Intelligence solution from Birst (recently acquired by Infor). Such breakthrough is expected to help businesses to manipulate data much better than what we are currently doing.

Hard skills can be trained while soft skills are harder to teach and takes time to fully develop. Soft skills are the elements that build up and strengthen relationships in the workplace. It reflects how people conduct their tasks and behave in the workplace environment. Soft skills usually include personal qualities, attitude and behaviour of an employee when they are at work. 

In this modern era, when everyone wants to do things faster, most candidates will agree to spend twice as much time doing interactive assessments related to work instead of answering the traditional questionnaires or logic tests. This is a good thing because it means that the candidate actually uses their minds when doing the assessments, and the results will be much more accurate.

Read more: Everything you need to know about the candidate experience

To stay competitive in today’s fast-changing world, all retailers must use technology to aid their business processes and to better meet customers’ expectations and requirements. Let’s have a look at some retail technology trends in 2018 and in the near future.

Read more: AI’s Benefits in Business (P.1)

Over the past 10 years, thousands of developers have flocked to Mountain View, California, to learn about the latest innovations and announcements from the software giant at the Google I/O conference (short for input/output in terms of web development).

More than 7,000 people attended Google's three-day conference this year (from 8th to 10th May) and were provided with a comprehensive picture of Google's upcoming developments. This 2018 event has confirmed some technology trends which are expected to be widespread in the near future.

Read more: Why Google says no to job interviews

Over the past decade, candidate’s view on recruitment has changed rapidly, from passively looking for a recruiting post on newspaper, to actively looking for jobs and choosing which company they want to work for via the Internet. This shift was mainly initiated since the Millennial generation began to join the workforce. With their constant availability online, organisations have to change their way of approaching candidate and keeping themselves at the forefront of the job market.