| | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Strategy
Bridging the skills gap and creating new services – key success factors for manufacturers 2017
manufacturing industry predictions

Bridging the skills gap and boosting services will be top priorities for manufacturers in 2017. And IoT? Today, 50% of…

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| | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation, Retail, Strategy, Supply Chain
Brave new world of retail: sustain and entertain in 2017
This will be the year of retailtainment.

2017 will be a fantastic year for retailers to experiment by trying out new ideas. There’s only one thing they…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Automotive, Events
Automotive trends: new rules of the road

Technology is transforming automotive design and strategy. From 3D printing to the rise of the autonomous car, there are new logistical challenges.

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation, Energy, Utilities & Resources, Events, IFS Applications, IFS Labs, Service
A new way to think about drones and business applications
drone

How IFS Labs connected an actual flying drone to IFS Applications. Digital transformation is a subject that is much spoken…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Aerospace & Defense, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation
A&D Digital Transformation: Turning technology into operational & bottom-line benefits
A&D blog post image

Digital transformation is no longer just a technology trend for aerospace & defense (A&D) organizations. It’s a core business approach…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Finance, Strategy
Invest in enabling technology to help weather the storm

  As predictions of another global economic storm ring out amid most of the world’s press, and stock markets tumble…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Retail, Strategy
Why built-in omni-channel is the new crucial retail reality

Retailers that manage to offer a seamless shopping experience will stand strong, but keeping up with the pace of change…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Retail
Mobility as the new core retail channel
Shopping

Rumor has it that more smartphones are present in the world today than toothbrushes – a horrifying thought – and…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Retail
Knowing Your Customers is The New Black

In our previous retail blog posts, we have discussed the need for speed as an accelerator for most businesses. One…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
The Potential of Wearable Technology in A&D

Any ‘new’ technology has to reduce complexity and workload for military and aviation operators. With the buzz around the release…

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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: 6 minutes | Events, IFS Labs
A Roadmap for Technology and IFS Applications

What’s the future or business, technology and IFS Applications specifically? Here’s a look into what’s next, and how IFS is investing to match that.

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