I took the opportunity to leave the hands-on lab and watched Mike Fletcher’s session on Reporting capabilities within Infor M3. He started off showing Homepages, and how to use it to present operational metrics, analyzing current data from M3. The session presented a number of other techniques as well.

An example is to show a monitor, with the count of stopped orders, and then being able to go to the list from the Monitor Widget.

Another example was to show items under development without prices by using search. The query was built by selecting “add to search” from the context menu on the column header. The search query can then be added to a menu in Homepages so that you have a link to the tasks that you work with on a regular basis.

In business context and context applications are also a form of reporting that can provide context information to M3 data, including Birst reports, Infor Document Management documents, as well as H5 Mashup applications as Context Applications.

A great session that give business context to the development that I’ve been working on. It is always nice to see how powerful the different widgets, SDKs and H5 are from a business perspective.

I also got some good feedback from customers and partners which is really what TechEd is all about, learning from each other.

Today is day 2 at M3 TechEd. We started with Infor OS and Heath on the main stage. Infor OS is great and will give you a lot of value. If you want to learn all about Infor OS don’t miss the coming TechEd in Las Vegas in February.

Heath started with Infor OS and a quick overview.

Infor Document Management is a living repository for collaborating around documents.

Next on stage was Torbjörn on User Experience starting with Homepages the application that is built for role based, highly configurable widgets presenting a process based view, highlighting those items you need to take action on.

Then there was a great session on organization change management by Carol Tyler and how we at Infor is transforming the industry and cultivating our culture of innovation.

Yesterday I arrived early, in the dark, and I left, in the dark. That’s just how it is in December in Stockholm. Today I was half an hour later, just in time to catch the sunrise.

Beautiful sunrise facing Gröna Lund and Djurgården, on the other side.