| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing
Trying to Make Sense of the Conflict Minerals Rule? Good luck with that!

Regardless of your position on government mandates for corporate social responsibility, one thing is certain. The U.S. Securities and Exchange…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, IFS Labs, Mobility, Research, Strategy
The Making and Breaking of the Internet of Things
Industry 4.0

2014 will go down in history as the year when the Internet of Things (IoT) hype peaked. Thus the interesting question becomes what will happen next? Will IoT follow the usual pattern of a set-back due to overinflated expectations, only to return later as widely adopted part of our lives? Or will IoT be the exception that goes directly from hype to use?

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| | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing
How Can I.T. Keep Up with the 3D Printing Revolution?

3D printing has continued to hit the headlines with some fascinating use cases, such as the architects in Amsterdam that…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
What can the construction sector learn from other industries?
Crossrail tunnel under construction

Last month I attended the 19th Annual Future of Utilities Conference in London and was part of a panel discussion…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Service
And the sooner you use enterprise software, the quicker the ROI!

Last week Martin Gunnarsson blogged that “Owning enterprise software doesn’t add value to your business; using it does.” How true…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Events
Owning enterprise software doesn’t add value to your business; using it does!

One important element in the path to innovation is to learn about all the new capabilities in IFS Applications. We can help our customers to add—stepwise and pretty seamlessly—new product innovations to their ERP suite without major business intermission.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology
Why does business agility matter now more than ever?

Change or die. It is a pretty simple concept!

And that is why IFS is devoting substantial resources (see the first in our series of business agility whitepapers) to making the case for increased business agility, not only in the thinking of executives and the intelligentsia, but in the technology infrastructure that holds an enterprise-class business together.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Why Public Sector in the United Kingdom Should Do More than Just ‘Think’ Cloud

Public and private sector organizations around the world are increasingly taking advantage of the scalable power of cloud computing. Solutions…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
New NEC Case Study Illustrates the Benefits of Collaborative Working
NEC

One of IFS’s most successful business partnerships is with NEC Corporation, the Japanese multinational provider of IT services and products,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
HUMS + ERP = PBL with Attitude!

There are several benefits to be gained from the introduction of a complete end-to-end HUMS/EAM support solution. Over the last…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Oil & Gas
ISO 14224: PROVE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SAY YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR MOBILE OFFSHORE ASSETS

There has always been a significant financial reward for high levels of equipment reliability in the oil and gas industry….

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
Stop Trying to Define BIM — Start Investing in Change!

The time has come to stop spending time trying to define what building information modeling (BIM) is and accept that…

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