What happens when years of ERP experience walk out the door?
For organizations running BPCS or Infor LX, maintaining the expertise needed to support the system is a growing continuity risk.
That means preparing the people who will support it next, but it also means transferring institutional knowledge, documenting critical processes, and planning for succession before that expertise leaves.
Documentation matters, too. VIRTUTEM regularly encounters Read more...established ERP environments with gaps such as undocumented customizations and job streams without runbooks.
VIRTUTEM's complimentary ERP Environment Assessment covers your active job streams, RPG customization inventory, EDI setup, current support coverage gaps, and is delivered as a written report with no obligation.
If managed services make sense for your environment, the report shows exactly what scope it would need to cover. If it doesn't, it's still a useful picture of where your environment stands.
This is especially relevant if someone who understands your Infor LX Read more...or BPCS environment is retiring in the next 12-24 months.
When did you last get a clear picture of where your IBM i environment actually stands?
Request your complimentary ERP Environment Assessment by selecting the link below.
What does a more modern experience look like for Infor LX users?
Join the Infor LX User Group for our October webinar, Modern Experience, presented by Dave Rapacz.
Dave will explore the tools and capabilities helping organizations modernize the LX user experience while continuing to build on the value of their existing systems.
Ready to expand what’s possible with LX integration?
Join the Infor LX User Group for our November webinar:
New IDF APIs: Expanding What’s Possible with LX Integration
Nick Olson, Solutions Architect and AI Product Innovator at Crossroads RMC, will explore the new IDF APIs and the opportunities they create for extending and integrating LX.
🚨 COMING IN Q4: Varsity Shipment Dashboard! What if you could see exactly where your #shipping dollars are going? 👀
Varsity's new Shipment Dashboard gives #IBMi users instant visibility into carrier spend, customer margins, zone cost, and shipment-level detail, all available at your fingertips. 💰📊
No custom reports. No waiting on IT. Just actionable shipping insights from the data you already have on a single screen.
What a way to open inPOWER 2026—a packed room and AI center stage!
Tony Fleischman welcomed attendees and recognized the user group board members whose hard work helped make this conference possible. Jay Allison welcomed the community on behalf of Infor, followed by IBM’s Scott Forstie and Tim Rowe.
Felix Schmidt then brought AI into perspective by looking back at the history of technological change—not simply to understand where we are today, but to recognize Read more...where we may truly be going.
Rick Rider brought that vision into the present by introducing Infor Velocity Suite and showing how Infor is moving AI beyond conversation and into meaningful business automation.
The energy in this room says it all: our community is ready to learn, question, explore, and build what comes next.
WorkOutLoud is attending 𝗶𝗻𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, and we’re ready to learn, have some fun, and connect with the people who make this community rock. 🤘
Let’s explore what’s next with 𝗔𝗜, swap ideas, build relationships, and enjoy a little Wisconsin fall weather along the Read more...way. 🍂
From a session that sparks an idea to a conversation that starts a friendship, the best conference moments stay with you long after you head home. That’s what community is all about.
If your business runs BPCS or Infor LX on IBM i, you've probably heard something about managed services that gave you pause.
Those concerns make sense. But they're worth a closer look.
We put together this carousel because these three misconceptions come up in almost every conversation we have, and they're consistently the reason companies delay a decision that's clearly in their interest.
IBM i 7.4 standard support ends September 30th, 2026, and a proper upgrade can take anywhere from 90-180 days to plan and execute.
Most shops are already inside that window.
Your RPG customizations, job streams, and EDI mappings probably aren't documented anywhere. That's the layer that's hardest to recover when the person who built it is gone.
VIRTUTEM has supported BPCS and Infor LX environments for over 30 years. We know what an orderly transition Read more...looks like, and we know what happens when companies wait too long to start one.
Has your team modeled the cost per hour of an unplanned IBM i outage?
Request your complimentary ERP Environment Assessment below.
The Varsity Logistics team is looking forward to connecting with Infor users, sharing ideas, and discussing the #shipping challenges impacting organizations today. 🚚💡
Stop by booth #45 to chat with our team and explore ways to drive greater efficiency across your #IBMi shipping operation.
📦 Heading to inPOWER 2026? Be sure to stop by booth #45 and meet the Varsity Logistics team.
As the only holistic #multicarrier shipping solution built specifically for #IBMi, we're helping Infor XA, LX, and System21 customers modernize #shipping, simplify carrier management, and streamline fulfillment operations. 🚚
Learn more about the conference and how you can connect with Varsity here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4z9lkYB
Four days built around the Infor LX, System21, and XA community, running September 14–17th at The Ingleside Hotel in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.
This year we're bringing three sessions to the LX learning track: two on applying AI to LX, one on integration.
We're also part of the partner introductions session and running a dedicated sponsor session with CNX on Valence, our low-code, no-code development and analysis Read more...application modernization tool for IBM i.
You can also find us at Booth 30 in the conference hub, where we'll be walking through our AI work and going deeper on Valence.
Most companies don't have an IBM i strategy. They have an IBM i hope.
One person who knows everything. No documentation. No upgrade timeline.
An IBM i strategy looks different. Documented RPG/CL and EDI environment. A defined upgrade path. An application-layer partner with contractual audit rights and SLAs tied to ERP performance, not just uptime.
The difference isn't budget. It's a decision made before the departure, not after.
If your Read more...environment looks more like the left column than the right, that's exactly what VIRTUTEM's complimentary ERP Environment Assessment is designed to address.
The hardest part of an IBM i modernization conversation is rarely the technology.
It is the internal one. Getting leadership aligned around investment in a platform they may not fully understand. Making the case for a phased approach without overpromising outcomes. Building a roadmap that IT can defend and the business can trust.
IBM i is the only enterprise platform with a publicly committed 10-year roadmap. That matters in that conversation.
It means Read more...investment in modernization is investment in a platform IBM has publicly stood behind, not a system being fully retired.
Two developers. Same AI. Same deadline. One is calm. The other is buried in notes, second-guessing, reworking yesterday's answer.
Easy to assume one wrote a better prompt. Or just tried harder. It's neither.
The difference is what their AI is connected to.
One AI is pointed at just everything - live code beside dead code, current logic beside abandoned logic, right context mixed with wrong. It has to dig through the noise first, burns tokens doing Read more...it, and still returns something confident that isn't always correct.
The other draws on trusted, source-linked context - the code, data, jobs, and business rules that actually matter. Less searching. Fewer tokens. Answers you can verify.
On IBM i, where decades of logic pile up, that gap decides the day.
So when your AI gets it wrong - is it the model? Or what it's connected to?
