IFS is a leader in enterprise software systems that streamline operations for companies operating across various industries like manufacturing, distribution, aerospace and defense. Like most software companies, upgrades are crucial to its core technology platform - IFS Applications.
The latest version of its software suite, IFS Applications 10, has been designed to provide a single complete solution for global organizations that helps with manufacturing and distribution as well as with maintaining assets and managing service-focused operations. IFS Applications 10 also brings an all new user experience that enables you to get even more value from your software investment.
What Happens If You Don’t Upgrade IFS Applications?
Wondering if you should make the upgrade to IFS Applications 10? As major global technology partners to a lot of companies like yours, we suggest you do. Although many companies keep putting it off, upgrading to IFS Applications 10 could transform your business. Many companies put it off because IFS enterprise suites cover multiple departments and functions, thus they believe that it is better to stay on their current version to "avoid disruption". However, it might be misguided to you think so. Here’s why.
- Firstly, if you don’t upgrade, you will miss out on the latest technologies, new functionalities and business process enhancements that come with each upgrade that can streamline your operations.
- Secondly, we have seen that when many of our clients who have delayed IFS upgrades for an indefinitely long period of time, their source code has been so heavily modified to keep up operations that it makes subsequent upgrades much more complicated than they usually are, which may increase the cost of migration. It is important to note here that, you also miss out on support services if your IFS Applications is a few generations behind the current version.
- Lastly, we also typically find a big backlog of essential functions to be deployed due to compatibility issues. This also increases your time, effort, and cost since you will have to provide extensive user training and rework roles within your departments.
Why Upgrade to IFS Applications 10?
In terms of evaluating whether or not you should upgrade, you should learn about what you get with the new version, and decide on your own. Here are some new features in IFS Applications 10.
- IFS Aurena: IFS Aurena is a new browser-based UI that deploys a ‘consumer-first’ architecture for driving employee engagement and productivity.
- AI Interaction: The IFS Aurena bot can empower users to interact via voice or text inputs that increases efficiency using artificial intelligence (AI). IFS Aurena Bot can answer questions in a natural language, as well as perform automated transactions. The IFS Aurena bot can be accessed from other social apps like Skype and Facebook Messenger too.
- Service-centric: IFS Applications 10 has made major improvements to increase its ‘service-focus’ like giving users the power to manage service work and contract quotes directly from within the CRM module, as well as improved support for multi-person and multi-occurrence work execution along with many other advantages. For a full list of the service-centric features in IFS 10, just ask us!
- Demand-driven MRP (DDMRP): The inclusion and improvement of DDMRP in IFS Applications for manufacturing introduces features like strategic inventory buffers, to reduce lead times and provide better forecasts. The IFS DDMRP solution has been validated by the Demand Driven Institute.
- Financial feature enhancements: IFS Applications 10 offers extended support for MNC companies with a completely new engine that can handle global tax management as well as parallel ledgers.
- Cloud-friendly APIs: Built with latest RESTful and OASIS OData standards in mind, IFS Applications 10 allows easy integration of data and processes with most other modern cloud technologies and SaaS solutions.
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