倾斜

Johan Axelson recognizes that business is a relay race. But, instead of runners sprinting around a track to exchange a baton; information about resources, production capacity, cash flow, purchase orders and delivery exchanges at lightning speed by database systems. If the baton drops in the process; the entire supply chain of production and delivery disrupts, and the impact reverberates around the world.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) management software, which was introduced to the manufacturing community in the 1980s to integrate business processes, controls the process. It utilizes databanks maintained by a database management system. In this space, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft are key players; however, Infor is a growing up-and-comer increasing its market share.

Now add the rise of the online retailing industry, referred to as eCommerce and eFulfillment, to that equation. This industry is expected to reach $780 billion in the United States, and the stakes could not be higher. Making the connection smooth allows customers to have an Amazon-like experience in B2B and B2C eCommerce transactions. This is the niche Axelson is creating with LeanSwift.

The Future is Cloudy

Today, ERPs are not located in banks of computers, but in the cloud. This enables organizations to access applications anywhere on the planet, enjoying immediate entrance into supply chain processes. LeanSwift is a cloud-ERP implementer. Strategically focusing on the Infor M3 solution, it not only offers integration with cloud-ERP but brings its expertise in incorporating Magento eCommerce solutions. Magento possesses nearly 30 percent of the eCommerce market share worldwide.

Launched five years ago, LeanSwift wanted to represent the primary components of M3 on a “windowpane,” adapt the M3 platform to the unique needs of the client and link Magento to the Infor’s ERP.

LeanSwift has a proprietary product that links these platforms seamlessly, in a time frame measured in days versus months.

“利用Infor M3的大多数公司需要聘请程序员自定义与Magento的集成，”Axelson解释说。“Leanswift有一个专有的产品，可以无缝地将这些平台联系起来，在数天与月份测量的时间范围内。”

Its products, which work as well in large organizations and small ones, can apply LeanSwift’s application with ease. This enables the company to take manufacturers, retailers and distributors from the United States, Asia/Pacific, Europe and Australia to the next level.

“这是一个B2B解决方案，具有与B2C类似的用户体验，为客户提供了一个与供应商进行业务的简单界面，”Axelson说。

Diving into the Digital Deep End

The first thing you notice about Axelson is his characteristic enthusiasm. The second is his Swedish accent. The Cocoa Beach-based tech entrepreneur grew up in Sweden’s countryside, in a location so remote he had a five-mile drive to the nearest gas station. Though he attributes his entrepreneurial inclinations to his father, it was not until college that technology began to pique his interest.

“在瑞典，你选择你想要准备的商业或专业部门，因为你开始大学经历，”阿乔森说。“我是俄亥俄州的一名交换学生一年。当我回来时，我知道我想去大学。我申请学习经济学，重点关注俄罗斯和德国经济，但却没有被接受。相反，大学通知了我，我在系统分析计划中被接受了一个科学学士学位。我想，“我不申请。”我不知道它是什么。“

He soon learned it concerned computer software, so Axelson headed off to the university.

“In Sweden, you are required to do an internship as a part of your educational experience,” Axelson said. “My internship was with a company that was later bought by Infor.”

Infor has acquired a whole suite of companies, and this was one of them.

“I was working as a programmer and became so caught up in the work that I joined the company developing software,” Axelson said. “Then I moved from R&D to consulting services, where I helped companies implement the products. It was a great learning process, though there were times when I thought about being a bus driver.”

从斯堪的纳维亚到阳光状态

随着Axelson更熟悉Infor平台，他开始开发专业知识，将其平台与公司的需求集成。在美国生活中的时间后，他和他的妻子和他们的两个幼儿一起搬回瑞典，接近家庭，让孩子们沉浸在他们的本土文化中。

Axelson launched a business in 2001 to integrate companies with ERPs. After a while, he and his business partner wanted to go in different directions, so Axelson left. One morning he woke up, looked at my wife and said, ‘Do you want to move somewhere warmer?’ Today, Axelson looks out the upper story window of his office, which enjoys a panoramic view of Cocoa Beach — the Banana River Lagoon on one side and the ocean on the other.

“I knew some individuals in Sydney, Australia who suggested I start something in the United States,” Axelson said. “These individuals introduced me to someone who was consulting on integration. We started LeanSwift in August 2011.”

今天倾向于45名员工遍布全球;多大洲的开发人员和程序员，更不用说时区，以及销售和产品集成商。

“起初，我们专注于有信息M3的公司的定制集成，但意识到很难使用，使用乏味，”Axelson说。“我们创建了简化和改进用户体验的产品。然后我们有电子商务解决方案的要求。我们开发了一种使用流行的现有平台的产品，简单方便地将其与他们的ERP集成，这是Magento。我们意识到它有一个蓬勃发展的市场，特别是在B2B空间中。与此同时，我们认可的产品开发是一个昂贵的过程;因此，在印度开设了办公室。今天，我们在公司的软件开发方面拥有大约25名员工，约有20名员工参与客户界面。“

AXELSON在提供基于移动的用户界面时，他的公司认为最潜力。

“Millennials working at companies that use Infor M3 started asking, ‘Why can’t I do this on my mobile device?’ so orders can be entered, and changes can be made on production lines or in the field,” Axelson said. “This is in their digital DNA. Why train these employees in a complex system when it can be simplified into something intuitive? You can mobilize for order fulfillment and inventory control. We built a mobile app that allows for all of this and a myriad of other functions.”

Axelson likes the idea of leveraging what others have to create his own. As he put it, “Alibaba has no warehouses, Uber has no cars, Airbnb has no hotel rooms.”

它是一种解决方案，即将倾斜从集成服务提供商移动到制作任何公司“精益”和“SWIFT”的产品的介绍者。