| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Process Manufacturing
How ERP helps you be compliant with quality standards and legislation

As the person responsible for process manufacturing at IFS, I often get asked whether IFS Applications is certified for a…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Events
The Beauty Lies in The Simplicity

This post shares a few examples of IFS Quick Reports created by the American company CDF.
The beauty of this solution lies in the simplicity when it comes to extract, present and share data in an easy way.

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Manufacturing, Strategy
How to Close the Manufacturing Skills Gap
Brompton Bicycle

The global economic crisis has had a significant effect on the manufacturing sector, with the prolonged Eurozone slump impacting demand…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Modular Technology vs Big Bang – Delivering an agile aerospace and defense organization

When Gartner speaks, we all tend to listen. So when Gartner characterized 2014 as the dawn of post-modern ERP – where the enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite is de-constructed into a more federal, “loosely-coupled” ERP environment – I not only listened, but agreed. Because this is exactly the trend we are seeing in the market for enterprise software in the demanding aerospace and defense software industry.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, Strategy
IFS in the Hall of Fame

IFS is among the top ten of Sweden’s best workplaces for the fifth year in a row. This post explains why!

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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: 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: 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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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Events
Are You (and your ERP) Prepared for Change?

Change — inexorable, accelerating and disruptive — was a main theme of the IFS World Conference in Barcelona. P.J. Jakovljevic,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Strategy
Don’t Listen to Your Customers…Only

The traditional way to collect market intelligence is to interact with your customers. But, if you are looking for pioneer innovations, you have to increase the involvement of your employees and you even need to expand the source of intelligence outside your company’s payroll list.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Manufacturing, Strategy
Is the manufacturing industry in recovery?

Over the last few months, there have been a number of surveys indicating that global manufacturing output is increasing. Last…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Events, Mobility
Ray Wang: Go mobile or go extinct

We’re in a world of change, and you have a stark choice: be a disruptor or vein disrupted. Do you understand your company’s DNA enough to do that?

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