| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Retail, Strategy
3 key learnings from NRF: new retail concepts demand technology change

Recently back from NRF – Retail’s Big Show 2016 – I have had some time to digest my impressions. What…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, IFS Applications
Second time lucky for role-based user experiences?

History is full of concepts and products that flopped or ended up as nice products used for very limited purposes….

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
Predictions for the construction sector

IFS’s Global Industry Director for the construction sector, Kenny Ingram, predicts how key trends will be impacting the industry during…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Automotive, Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Manufacturing, Strategy, Supply Chain
2016 Automotive industry predictions

Asia will be the biggest car manufacturer worldwide within the next few years, but Europe will continue to lead in…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Oil & Gas, Strategy, Supply Chain
2016 oil and gas industry predictions

In 2016, the oil and gas industry will jump on the opportunity that big data presents. In 2016, the oil…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Events, IFS Labs, Strategy
Where to discover infinite possibilities in 2016
IFSWoCo16

The next IFS World Conference experience that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from October 25-27, 2016. A highlight in…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Star Trek or real life? Wearables and augmented reality in A&D maintenance

In Aerospace and Defense, maintenance in the field is very different from at the depot or base. The environment is…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, IFS Applications
Make complex things easier with a user experience from IFS

Enterprise software is about facilitating communication. This can range from simply registering a sales order to managing an international multi-billion…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation
It will be easier when complex things get smarter – from present to future

You have probably experienced the journey from desktop computers to the era of smartphones and tablets, and how it has…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, IFS Applications, Strategy
Top 10 questions for your ERP vendor

When considering which enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to choose, the starting point is a set of ten specific questions…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Technology, IFS Applications
How good is your forecast?

Last year I joined Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference in London. I attended a presentation by Tim Payne, a Gartner…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Energy, Utilities & Resources, Oil & Gas
IFS is a ‘Challenger’ says Gartner 2015 MQ
New IFS website

The publication of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Energy and Utilities Enterprise Asset Management Software reflects the huge investment we have made in specific industry functionality within our core product, IFS Applications. We believe that by showcasing IFS as the only ‘Challenger’ in this year’s MQ, Gartner have validated what we can offer to our customers in the energy, utilities, oil and gas industries: a deep breadth of functionality that can be successfully deployed in all sub-sectors of that market.

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