| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Automotive, Manufacturing, Supply Chain
Morgan Motors Rolls Out IFS To Get The Most From Their Supply Chain

The automotive supply chain is far more complex than it used to be, a fact Morgan clearly knows. In early…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Civil Aviation MRO: A fast changing market needing agile solutions
aviation MRO software

Move forward and embrace further changes in the future – it’s all about agility. The civil aviation support industry is…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Strategy
How IFS can help process manufacturers with their CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a broad concept that describes a corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for a…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Manufacturing
Is 3D printing ready for the consumer market?

While there’s a certain enjoyment about growing and picking your own fruit – or should I now say printing your…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
In-Memory Done Right
memory chips

I believe the approach taken by Oracle is the right one. After all, why would we in the software industry learn new tools and skills to develop against a new database when we can get the same benefits as an incremental update to the databases we know well?

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| | 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: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
What an article written in 1960 means for 21st Century business agility
Theodore Levitt

What business are you really in? Today, you may be in the aerospace components business. Or the power generation business….

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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: 3 minutes | Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing
Defining the ERP Foundation for the Paint and Coatings Industry

Of the many contemporary challenges facing an industry like paint and coatings, supply chain management is a critical one at…

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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: 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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