CIO magazine for the North America region .

This month ’ s cover features Shiv Dutt , VP – Digital Experience and Innovation at Pampered Chef .

He provides us with a first-person account explaining how the cookware company , owned by Berkshire Hathaway , has been utilizing Iterate . ai ’ s low-code platform Interplay , to accelerate development .

This means its development team can complete applications and put them into production in days rather than years .

“ Whereas traditional software development requires considerable technical expertise and heavy time and cost commitments , a low-code path clears away many of those barriers ,” he says .

“ With low-code , developers utilize a highly-visual user interface to piece together the code components , APIbased services and model-driven logic they need to build customized applications .” You can find out more details about the project by turning to p56 .

“ We knew Infor was the right partner to help us fuel our growth because of its proven track record and commitment to investing and adding vertical depth to its ERP solutions ,” said Toni Pepper , San Manuel ’ s Chief Information Technology officer . There ’ s much more to discover about this story on p61 .

In this month ’ s Country Focus , we take a look at how Jamaica Public Service ( JPS ), the sole distributor of electricity in Jamaica , has migrated efficiently to the cloud , reducing costs by 40 % using AWS Instance Scheduler .

Phillip Hamilton , IT Specialist , Infrastructure , at JPS , said : “ The first challenge was migrating our huge archive of bills , and we had no trouble doing that using AWS services .

“ After that success of moving terabytes of data overnight , we were no longer cloud-shy .” For more on this turn to p48 .

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Elsewhere , we take a look at how Infor has been at the heart of Digital transformation for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians . The tribe decided to implement the newest iteration of Infor CloudSuite Financials & Supply Management and Infor d / EPM to transform its backoffice strategy for growth .

I ’ d like to wish you a good month ahead and please enjoy the read !

Mark Bowen Editor

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