IFS is delivering its seventh generation of component-based software, designed from the ground up to enable step-by-step implementations with faster payback. IFS is also a pioneer in providing serviceoriented architecture (SOA), a way of building business applications centered around actual business processes, such as processing purchase requisitions or customer invoices. 

 

IFS Applications is the only business solution that combines the advantages of SOA with those of components. IFS Service-Oriented Component Architecture™ is an open, flexible design that helps you manage business process changes rapidly and cost effectively, making your company more agile in today’s fast-changing global marketplace. Other SOA systems require redundant implementations to map the software to all business processes within a company. This results in quality risks, complicated maintenance, and impaired performance. 

 

IFS provides the performance, reliability, and quality you need in a business application, making your business processes
flexible and easy to use. Because IFS Service-Oriented Component Architecture is an open design based on industry standards, other applications and point solutions can easily access information and trigger functionality in IFS Applications Both the services layer and application core are made available to other applications and environments through IFS access providers for .NET, Java™, COM, and SOAP. IFS web services and the IFS Connect integration broker provide message-based business processing. This makes it much easier to integrate IFS Applications with other enterprise software packages, such as SAP® or Oracle® eBusiness Suite.