Technologie et Architecture

Notre vision est d'être reconnu pour faciliter l'utilisation des technologies avancées. C'est pourquoi chez IFS nous sommes aussi attentifs à l'utilisation de la technologie qu'a la technologie elle même. Nous ne cherchons pas à imposer les standards mais conduisons en permanence nos recherches sur les technologies émergentes et les nouveaux standards. Quand les nouveaux éléments sont matures et enrichissants ils sont introduits dans IFS Applications. IFS Foundation1— le composant plateforme de l'architecture et de la technologie- est dessiné pour incorporer et délivrer les nouveaux standards et les nouvelles technologies d'une façon évolutive et à moindre coût.

Built for change

Applications require the right environment to function effectively and prosper over their life cycle. That’s why we’ve built essential support and services into a complete IT architecture.

Although separated, activities and entities have been jointly developed. Entities are the building blocks. They know how to store their own data but not how the data should be used. Too much built-in logic creates conflicts. Which is why the activities communicate to the relevant entities and provide instructions. 

Processes are the link between customer business practices and the corresponding system configuration—making it possible to reconfigure on the fly. The presentation layer consists of a number of user interfaces.

Five-layered architecture

With traditional systems, changing business processes means difficult and time-consuming reprogramming. This is because behavior is not encapsulated (isolated) in components. In IFS Foundation1, we have separated the software pieces of a business component into several layers. Each piece has clearly defined interfaces and responsibilities and is totally encapsulated from the others.

The layered architecture consists of data sources that store and manage data, entities that retrieve and modify data, activities that contain the actual business logic for your workflow, business processes that define the workflow, and user interfaces for presentation. This unique architecture offers many benefits—the most important is flexibility.

Life cycle management

The IFS Foundation1 life cycle management model consists of tools and products to handle all aspects of the system—from design to reconfiguration. They provide life cycle support for components and business processes. For example, there are tools and products designed to boost productivity and quality in the design-develop-test cycle of component development.

Additional tools and products for business professionals and system administrators support ongoing business process improvements and reconfiguration of existing processes.

Open integration services

Open integration consists of software services that enable and support integration of your business processes with other parties, applications and technologies. Every single business activity, entity, and process can be accessed by interactive clients and by application-to-application messaging.

IFS Foundation1 provides multiple open software development frameworks that make building powerful business applications easy and cost-effective. The frameworks ensure a consistent implementation and use of core functionality. In addition, the services provided by these frameworks can be used and reused across multiple solutions and components.