Business Technology

Can the enterprise provide access to corporate data while retaining control over access from multiple devices, over some of which it has limited control? Is the ROI worth the effort and cost entailed in securing mobile access? And what are enterprises doing today to address these key issues? We asked 200 CIOs in the UK for their attitudes.

As I talk with customers at our IFS industry councils and at other professional events, I find many manufacturers and…

Companies that succeed are the ones that embrace change. They have the built-in flexibility to respond to fast-changing business conditions. …

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

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.

In the software industry, we like to outline business dream scenarios. But that is the easy part. I prefer to talk about how to get there. What is your better, safer path to innovation? I think IFS can offer a quicker, safer path to innovation than our competition can, please let me explain how.

Each month, the IFS Radio Network serves up a roundup of breaking news on all things IFS. This month, we…

If you had boots on the ground for the IFS World Conference in Barcelona, you are probably already aware that…

Printed conference agendas are so 20th Century. So while there will still be a hard copy agenda and schedule for…

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is viewed as one of the key methods allowing maintenance engineers to do more with less at the same time as minimizing risk. RCM provides a greater understanding of the level of risk that an organization is currently managing, as well as supporting the establishment of capital maintenance regimes, thereby increasing cost effectiveness and equipment uptime. Implementing an RCM solution is not necessarily a complex or procedure – particularly if an organization follows seven easy steps…

I am a firm believer that products should ship with the expected basic set of features out of the box. This is why I think Samsung’s decision announced to ship their KNOX solution to consumers is the right one. Needless to say IFS is backing Samsung’s KNOX initiative—we already have our first apps available in the KNOX app catalog, and more is to come.

Pain is actually a good driver for coming up with new innovations because it forces you to produce new ideas. Being a leader is not painful. While you are concentrating on looking ahead, you might not detect what the competitors are doing and how your customers’ behavior and preferences are changing because you were too busy pleasing the financial market.