Technology Partners

IFS has established technology partnerships with industry leaders to provide customers with optimum technical solutions for their business solution needs. By collaborating with these partners, IFS ensures that you will get the appropriate expertise and products for your current and anticipated hardware, peripheral, and network requirements.

BEA

BEA is a global technology partner. The collaboration is related to J2EE technologies including application servers, portal integration and directory services. The web technology within IFS Applications is certified for the BEA WebLogic Server.

HP - Hewlett & Packard

HP is a global technology partner in product development, benchmarking and sizing. The areas in which HP and IFS collaborate sucessfully cover all platforms: Windows, Unix and Linux. Moreover, HP's close relationship with Oracle means that the development of clustered solutions is mainly based on platforms from HP. Packaged and certified software and hardware solutions are offered exclusively on an IFS/Oracle/HP platform.

IBM

IBM is a strategic business partner in product development and sales within selected market segments. Related to technology IBM and IFS collaborate on WebSphere J2EE and J2ME technologies. The web technology within IFS Applications is certified for WebSphere Application Server. IFS and IBM also collaborate on benchmarking and hardware sizing activities.

Microsoft

IFS and Microsoft collaborate on product development in the desktop applications area, .NET framework and integration appliances based upon technologies such as XML, SOAP and BizTalk Server.

Oracle

Oracle is a global technology partner for database technologies. IFS and Oracle have been collaborating for over two decades, beginning with IFS’ selection of Oracle’s database server as the main platform for IFS Applications. Recent activities have been primarily related to benchmarking activities on cluster technologies within Oracle10g. The web technology within IFS Applications is certified for Oracle 10g Application Server. IFS is one of Oracle’s largest development partners.

SUN

SUN is a global technology partner. Besides collaboration on benchmarking activities on SUN hardware, the work is focused on Java technologies, J2EE and SUN ONE. An important basis for the alliance is a deeper technology collaboration focusing on optimizing the use of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies in IFS Applications. References: General Electric, General Dynamics, ModusMedia.