IFS Cloud Platform Reviews

The solution is an ERP. I work for multiple clients, and all of those clients are in different sectors. I do see most businesses take it on and use it as a full business management suite of software. It covers every aspect from human resources through to any operational purchasing, buying, contract, and project management and full finance and reporting suites.

For the most part, in all of my experiences with IFS, when a company embarks on using an ERP of this significance, it tends to be the main tool the business then aligns itself with and uses to run.

The software itself is extremely strong and IFS is one of the best I've worked with in terms of listening to a user base and modifying and adapting the software under different releases to improve. There tends not to be a massive weakness in the product itself, as weaknesses historically could be quickly resolved in the next patch or the next release.

It's also highly customizable by the clients themselves. If you use software and you find a weakness, you have the ability with the right technical skills to be able to modify that software in a bespoke way to fit your own company needs, so it tends to not really have any weaknesses on that side.

From a user perspective, the fact that it has fully open APIs and it is very customizable is, or at least was, quite unique to IFS from an ERP software industry which is usually more locked down. Historically you bought the software, and if you wanted to make a change to that software, you maybe needed another field or another page or a function, you would request that to be developed by the software developer itself. You would pay them for it, they would release it, and it would take many, many months. Then, you may also pay them to maintain that since it's outside of the core build. With IFS, going back to around Application 9, if I don't like what a field's called, I can change its name or I can add new fields, new pages, and new functions myself, within reason.

Most businesses will have elements that are unique to them. ERP generally in the past was one size should fit all. For some companies, especially companies that really believe in their own uniqueness, that can sometimes be a problem. IFS addresses that wonderfully by saying, "Well actually, if you don't like that column being there, you have the ability to just right mouse and remove it. And if you want to add a new one, you can do this."

That's a massive feature for usability. In terms of the most recent cloud-based software IFS has again been quite forward-thinking in modernizing the way that ERP works. They moved more towards almost like a phone model, in that every few months, it'll have new software updates and deployments with optional new features.

What IFS has done with IFS Cloud is shake up the industry again a little bit by saying, "Well, we're not going to build any more versions of it. Instead, you buy IFS cloud, that's your core platform, and we will release bi-annual updates that you can opt into."

I'm a big fan of the fact that they lead. It's nice to see software with a modern mentality coming out to actually say, "We think we should do things differently." 

My organization only uses the finance module, but it depends on the modules your company needs.

The most valuable aspect for me is the finance module. I've worked with various companies, but I'm typically involved in finance. However, my previous position was with a utility company, so that involved distribution, HR, and the supply chain. 

All the modules are valuable in their own right, but everything has to go through the ERP. IFS has done an excellent job integrating the various modules to complete these processes. My expertise is in the finance module, but I have used the other verticals. It's an all-around good product.

We were in an MRP manufacturing environment, and as time and technology moved on in the mid-2000s, it was time to move up to a true ERP system. It was pretty much a no-brainer to use IFS. We looked in the marketplace and found that IFS matched what we did as a project company, and that's how I got started in IFS. I've never really touched another ERP system.

We have the standard package and most of the modules. We don't do any MRO, and we don't have the vehicle package or fleet maintenance. 

We're using version 10. The solution is deployed on a public cloud through AWS.

We have more than 500 regular users.

We have plans to implement IFS in other areas. We have a new company that can leverage areas of IFS that we're not fully into.

We use configure to order and dynamic order processing very heavily. We have a highly configurable product, and configuring the product into IFS is super handy. It's really fast, and it makes it easy for the end user to get really large and very complicated orders in. That's probably one of the biggest efficiencies.

We are using IFS Applications for HR, payroll, finance, and supply chain manufacturing. We use quite a lot of the modules.

The most valuable features of IFS Applications in the latest version are the new user Arena interface. It's from Apps 9, but it brings more flexibility in usage, especially around different devices, such as mobile usage, which doesn't restrict you from using a computer. We are it for the HR side, and it's proving quite good. It has a new modern feel to it similar to a standard cloud application which enhances the user experience.

I do data migration on IFS, mostly on V10, V8, and V9, and I'm starting to get on the cloud. I also work as a functional consultant on the project and electronic document management modules. These are my two feeds as a functional consultant.

IFS is adaptable to our client's needs. You can put in all the workflows and make connections between systems. IFS has the flexibility to be deployed on the cloud or on-premise, and you can connect to IoT.

It also has a mobile application, which is convenient when people are out in the field doing inventories of materials, for example. All this information and these devices are grouped into one system, and everything is logged into a single database. 

We are using Assyst in a Hybrid environment with Assyst app servers running in our own virtualized servers with the database and storage in Azure Cloud, which works well.

We use the system for IT Service Management across 16 ITIL v3 processes as part of a cohesive service management platform for delivering shared services for large organizations.

We integrate to Azure AD, LUIS/BOT Framework for insights and Virtual Agent support, as well as NetSuite for the asset, user, and billing interfaces.

Our focus is on process efficiency while ensuring a great customer experience.

Using this product allows us to standardize our approach to baseline improvement activities across business and IT process domains. The omnichannel capabilities allowed us to deploy a modern cross-channel delivery that we can manage from one pane of glass. The OOTB features provide support for many IT frameworks which we configured to meet our needs quickly. 

The OOTB analytics and in-tool BI charting allows analysts to really quickly assess historic and predicted scenarios to intelligently assess the situation so they can take the right actions 

I am using IFS Applications for materials management.

Feature-wise, I like the way it provides inventory details.

Regarding use cases, it is another EM solution. I have some experience on the work order side of it, such as work order maintenance. The use cases are typically similar between Maximo or Hexagon EAM. However, Maximo can be very industry-specific, which I am not sure if IFS is industry-specific or not. I do not have much information about IUPIDS.

There are fewer fields on the user screen compared to other products. This makes the UI a little bit easier to understand. It also translates to the capabilities. If you have fewer fields on the screen or tabs, from a UI perspective, it's a little bit better.