The latest IFS Cloud update delivers new capabilities. IFS is helping businesses collect the data needed to demonstrate their compliance and improve their performance against environmental sustainability standards as the IFS Cloud Sustainability Hub is now available and integrated inside Microsoft Teams.

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 human resources.

Available now are new APIs that connect factory machinery with IFS Cloud to deliver a connected shopfloor, which 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 predicative maintenance capabilities and efficiency.

The new Advanced Analytics feature through the user-customisable Lobbies leverages modular tabular analysis models to display information relevant to the user. End users can see their data in a new visualised format.

As a market differentiator and ongoing driver for the evolution of IFS Cloud, the platform’s UX has also been updated.

The new update also allows customers to integrate their own look and feel. Adding customisation and analytical capabilities enables users to streamline data and insights in one place.

Additional capabilities added to IFS Cloud include:
The Update Studio puts customers in control of the to allow them to analyse the release update and understand what impact it might have on configuration or customization before making any changes, which is especially critical to customers in regulated industries. The Update Studio is at the heart of enabling our customers to stay evergreen, IFS says.

The Dispatch Console, which is part of IFS Cloud for Service Management, now features capabilities based on four personas of dispatchers, ranging from automated to manual. IFS Cloud now gives each user profile the power ensure they are delivering their Moment of Service for their customers.

“The new IFS Cloud Sustainability Hub is meaningful for our customers: 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 not only our planet, but IFS and our customers. We are continuing to see businesses that want and need to transform if they are to prosper,” comments IFS chief product officer Christian Pedersen.

“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,” Pedersen says.

“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,” concludes Cimcorp director of corporate IT Pekka Nurmi, a pioneer IFS customer.

“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,” Nurmi says.