A new updated IFS Cloud is now available, with the global cloud enterprise applications company saying that the latest evolution will deliver a long-range of innovative, industry-specific new capabilities.
IFS is now helping businesses collect the data needed to demonstrate their compliance and improve their performance against environmental sustainability standards. The IFS Cloud Sustainability Hub is now available and integrated inside Microsoft Teams.
Secondly, IFS Cloud for HCM and Talent Management solutions now provide the flexibility of using either basic or out-of-the-box functionality for recruitment, onboarding, and development of the most key resource of any company – its people.
Available now are new APIs that connect factory machinery with IFS Cloud to deliver a connected shopfloor – this provides real-time intelligence that enables companies to better manage their supply-chain and production in line with order demands. New Intelligent Asset Monitoring and Maintenance functionality uses machine learning to improve predictive maintenance capabilities and efficiency.
The new Advanced Analytics feature that is accessible through the user-customisable Lobbies, leverages modular tabular analysis models to clearly display business-critical information relevant to the user. End users can visualise their data in real, detailed graphical renderings suitable to the way they access and consume data, reducing the skills needed to make insights available to everyone.
As a market differentiator and ongoing driver for the evolution of IFS Cloud, the platform’s UX has also been updated. New branding capabilities allow the customer to integrate their own look and feel, helping to create a more engaging experience for users. Adding customisation and analytical capabilities enables users to join up data, insights, actions and transactions in one place.
Additional capabilities added to IFS Cloud include:
The Update Studio puts customers in control of the update and cadence of functionality, allowing them to analyse the release update and understand what impact it might have on configuration or customisation, before making any changes, which is especially critical to customers in regulated industries.
The Dispatch Console, which is part of IFS Cloud for Service Management, now features capabilities based on four personas of dispatchers, ranging from those that rely on a mostly automated process to those that will complete a whole process start to finish manually. IFS Cloud now gives each user profile the power to make sure they are delivering their Moment of Service for their customers.
IFS Chief Product Officer Christian Pedersen said, “The updates we have built into the latest release of IFS Cloud are meaningful for our customers, both in how customers engage with the software through the UX improvements, as well as the additional functionality that has been added to help them manage and address the issues they face and the opportunities ahead of them.
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“An example of this is the new IFS Cloud Sustainability Hub – there is no customer who does not want to improve the impact they are having on the environment and communities we all work in. Sustainability is a critical item for IFS and our customers. We are continuing to see the world over that businesses want and need to transform if they are to prosper. Therefore, having regular, meaningful updates to our platform is key to enabling customers to remain evergreen and empowered to continually drive value from their software.”
IFS is committed to delivering an ever-evolving set of solutions for customers along their transformation life-cycles – future-proofing their operations, limiting risk to their businesses, and allowing them to create increasing value to their own customers.
“We’ve been expanding our digital transformation globally with IFS’s help, and since we initiated IFS Cloud six months ago, it’s proving to be key in how we deliver on our ambitions,” said pioneer IFS customer Cimcorp’s Director of Corporate IT, Pekka Nurmi.
“IFS Cloud provides a big step forward in technology and capability for us and our customers and will continue to support our global growth strategy. The biggest value provided by IFS Cloud is the ease of use for the everyday end user – our users are excited and also our management has shown particular interest in the new user interface and functionalities.”