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IFS has been featured in numerous articles and reports in both online and print publications. Summaries and excerpts from selected articles are displayed below.

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Marketplace Magazine - January 24, 2010 - Are you ready for green manufacturing?

Leading business publications in Wisconsin are publishing stories on the environmental footprint management results from our recent 2010 Advanced Enterprise Software Trends story.

Industry Week - January 8, 2010 - Survey: Manufacturers Want Social Media, Green Monitoring in ERP

Industry Week's manufacturing Info Tech newsletter includes a staff-written story on IFS' study on social media and environmental footprint management in ERP.

MCADCafe Weekly - December 21, 2009 - Engineering With Social Media

MCADCAFE.com editor Jeff Rowe found our recent release on social media/ERP integration so interesting he share it and comments on it here in his regular column post.

Manufacturing Business Technology - December 15, 2009 - Research: Manufacturers explore social media benefits for ERP

Manufacturing Business Technology has picked up a release and has published an in-depth story on how manufacturing executives see ERP and social media merging.

TechnologyEvaluation.com - December 14, 2009 - Why Privately-held Manufacturers Should Implement IFRS-ready ERP Solutions

Technology Evaluation Centers interviews IFS North America CFO Mitch Dwight and Baker-Tilly IFRS expert Christine Anderson. The article makes a strong case for ERP that is IFRS ready -- even for middle-market industry. And it also features a number of IFS Applications screen caps.

Green Energy Reporter - December 8, 2009 - US Manufacturers Unprepared for New Green Economy, Survey Says

Fox Business commentator Scott Edward Anderson (The Green Skeptic) wrote this blog item on IFS' soon-to-be-released research report - which shows that US manufacturers lack the enterprise software to measure their environmental footprint.

Greener Computing - December 02, 2009 - How IT Can Benefit Manufacturers' Green Practices

In this article, Par reveals that the majority of manufacturers have little or no ability to measure or manage their environmental footprint within their ERP solution. However, a majority of these executives would like their ERP vendor to offer embedded functionality that would allow them to do this.

Information Week - December 1, 2009 - Global CIO: Fear Of Facebook For The Enterprise

Research conducted by IFS North America -- and an interview with IFS CTO Dan Matthews on some of the enterprise 2.0 features of IFS Enterprise Explorer -- are source materials for this column in INFORMATION WEEK. Executive Editor Chris Murphy shared his thoughts, based in large part on survey results IFS North America will release later this month.

Managing Automation - November 16, 2009 - Planning Tools Target Manufacturing Agility

Managing Automation covered the release of the Advanced Planning Board for IFS Applications.

CustomerThink - November 13, 2009 - "Back Office CRM" is Critical for Complex Sales Processes

Jorge Defreitas penned this article on the importance of CRM/ERP integration, using IFS customer Data I/O as an example. Defreitas points out that complex, ETO companies like Data I/O really need CRM to access data in back office systems, including ERP. The customer example proves that this functionality is easy to use and to configure with little outside consulting help.

Hart Energy - September 25 - Survey: Energy Companies and Their Service Providers Can Still Improve In Information Systems Management ‘Best Practices’

E&P Buzz, an enewsletter of a Hart Energy publication that focuses on upstream oil and gas exploration, has published an article about a primary research project Hart and IFS worked on together. This article was also picked up by other Hart online publications and by a print newsletter, Global Refining & Fuels Today.

Industry Week - September 25, 2008 - Low Volume, High Mix Lean

Greg Romanello penned this article for Industry Week magazine, detailing the success of Data I/O with IFS Applications and offering tips for low volume, high-mix companies interested in lean processes.

Manufacturing Business Technology - September 24, 2009 - CIMdata reviews PLM from Siemens, IFS

CIMDATA recently published a report that gives a favorable review of IFS Applications' Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) functionality. This report has now been covered in turn by Manufacturing Business Technology.

Automation Magazine - September 11 - IFS: Fresh food manufacturer keeps an eye on the bottom line

IFS customer Freybe Gourmet Foods is included in the current issue of Advanced Manufacturing/Manufacturing Automation. The article relates how Freybe was able to extend advanced recipe management functionality to its subsidiary, Freybe Gourmet Chef.

Manufacturing Business Technology - August 26, 2009 - IFS, Infor deals may show renewed ERP merger and acquisition activities

MBT reports on IFS' acquisition of MultiPlus Solutions.

Business Trends Quarterly - August 13, 2009 - Own infrastructures must be agile : Supporting varying user needs

Daniel Dern, Business Trends Quarterly's Application Infrastructure blogger, interviewed IFS North America CTO Rick Veague about how app infrastructure needs to be flexible enough to support the needs of different users.

Managing Automation - August 13, 2009 - IFS Acquisition Supports Ambitious Plans

Managing Automation magazine covered the news announcement that IFS has acquired Norway-based MultiPlus Solutions.

TechnologyEvaluation.com - August 3, 2009 - Playing Devil's Advocate with an Innovative Vendor's "Techies"

In this article, analyst P.J. Jakovljevic interviews IFS CTO Dan Matthews and IFS North America CTO Rick Veague on the usability and IFS Enterprise Explorer. The article also provides a good retrospective on IFS and includes links to other IFS-related content on Tech Eval.

Managing Automation - July 17, 2009 - IFS Q2 Rises, CEO Hints at Acquisition

Managing Automation magazine covered IFS' positive financial results, citing the 9% increase in revenue and tripling of after tax profits. Writer Mark Halper also quotes CEO Alastair Sorbie on the potential for an acquisition by IFS in the near future.

Manufacturing Business Technology - July 1, 2009 - New solution tracks carbon footprint throughout the product lifecycle

Manufacturing Business Techology has published an article on IFS Eco Footprint Manager, based on interviews with product manager Par Hammarstrom and IFS customer IV Produkt.

IncTechnology.com - June 4, 2009 - Software: Is Now the Right Time to Negotiate?

Bob Corrigan from IFS is quoted in this article on technology.inc - the tech web presence of INC magazine. Bob gives his opinion about how the economy may be helping customers at the negotiating table during upgrade processes.

Information-Management.com Blog - June 1, 2009 - When Will Eco Apps Go Mainstream?

Information Management Magazine interviewed senior management at IV Produkt, the first company to implement the IFS Eco-Footprint Manager.

TechnologyEvaluation.com - May 29, 2009 - How Project Management Can Help Manufacturers

Technology Evaluation Centers, blogger Aleksey Osintsev makes the point that project management is becoming more and more important to manufacturing and operations executives industry-wide. In making this point, Aleksey refers to two IFS resources ... Weathering the Recession with Project ERP by Bill Leedale and The Business Model for the 21st Century Is Project-Centric by Thomas Petersson.

Reliable Plant Magazine - April 27, 2009 - IV Produkt seeks to drive cost and energy efficiencies

Reliable Plant Magazine covered IFS' announcement regarding IV Produkt as being the first IFS customer to implement the new Eco Footprint Management functionality.

Managing Automation - April 21, 2009 - ERP Providers Report Divergent Results

Managing Automation, in this article, explains how IFS Q1 2009 results compare favorably to those of CDC Software. Writes contributor Diane Himes: "Two earnings reports from enterprise software providers this week showed contrasting results, as mid-market ERP provider CDC Software revealed a 22% year-over-year revenue drop, and its larger counterpart IFS showed a 14% increase in revenue, buoyed by industries less exposed to global economic conditions." Himes goes on to make a detailed comparison between results from IFS and CDC.

ZDNET - April 21, 2009 - Building a virtual B2B user community

Joel Lundgren, openIFS program manager, contributed to the guest editorial for ZDNET’s Social Business blog. Lundgren tells the story of openIFS and offers tips for other B2B companies considering their own collaborative online networks.

Technology Evaluation Centers - April 20, 2009 - Weather the Recession with Project ERP

IFS Senior Advisor Bill Leedale contributed a feature story for the Technology Evaluation Centers eNewsletter. In this article, Leedale describes how the discipline of project management is being adopted not only by managers of episodic projects, but by manufacturing operations managers using project-enabled ERP. Leedale also reveals how Project ERP can help manufacturers weather tough times. The article includes screen caps from IFS Applications.

Reliable Plant Magazine - April 4, 2009 - A recession tactic: Use ERP to manage maintenance contractors

IFS Implementation Manager Mike Auer penned this article on how enterprise applications can be used to manage outside maintenance contractors. In slow economic times, maintenance staffs may be just as vulnerable to downsizing as other staff, increasing reliance on outside contractors. The article includes a lot of screen caps from IFS Applications.

Technology Evaluation Centers - March 9, 2009 - Nine Ways to Use ERP to Make the Manufacturing Supply Chain Lean

An article on leaning the supply chain by IFS SCM guru Jakob Bjorklund is the lead article in today's Technology Evaluation Centers newsletter. Bjorklund outlines four key concepts and five critical technology tools to lean the supply chain.

CNBC - February 25, 2009 - New IFS ecological solution helps businesses cut cost and carbon

CNBC reports on IFS' Ecological footprint solution.

Manufacturing Business Technology - February 25, 2009 - ERP vendors and environmental tracking

MBT reports on IFS' ecological footprint accounting functionality.

CNBC Video - February 19, 2009 - IFS to Shift its Focus

IFS AB CEO Alastair Sorbie was interviewed by CNBC about IFS' positive financial results in the face of an economic downturn.

Managing Automation - February 6, 2009 - Defense, Infrastructure Buoy IFS Fourth Quarter

Writes contributor Mark Halper: "Swedish ERP provider IFS benefited in the fourth quarter from its focus on defense and infrastructure customers, as revenue rose 9% to SKr 744 million and after-tax profit more than doubled to SKr 64 million from the year-earlier quarter. But the wretched global economy caused customers to delay payments, weakening cash flow."

The Enterprise System Spectator - February 6, 2009 - ERP bright spot: IFS revenue rises

Analyst Frank Skavo writes: "IFS is in a somewhat unique position, as its target markets happen to be sectors such as aerospace and defense, energy, and utilities, that are least affected--and some may argue, benefiting--in the current recession. I also suspect that for some buyers, the idea of being able to buy enterprise systems from someone other than SAP and Oracle is also appealing."

Aerospace Manufacturing and Design - February 4, 2009 - Working within a New Business Model: Performance-Based Logistics Contracting

Dan Norrish bylined this how-to article on performance based logistics (PBL) for Aerospace Manufacturing and Design. One key concept that Norrish stresses is that manufacturing applications do not deliver suitable functionality for the aftermarket services involved in PBL contracts.

CFO Magazine - February 2, 2009 - ERP Made Easy

IFS Chief Technology Officer Dan Matthews is quoted multiple times in this article on ERP usability. CFO Magazine goes directly to the financial executives that are key drivers of enterprise software projects for key insights.

CIO Magazine - January 15, 2009 - ERP Backlash Coming Soon to a Company Near You

Blog editor Ray Wailgum mentioned IFS as on being on the forefront of usable, simple software suitable for "Generation Y" users.

Technology Evaluation Centers - January 7, 2009 - Advanced Front Office Lean with Business Modeler Software

In this Technology Evaluation Centers article, Greg Romanello of IFS covers how embedded business modeler software can streamline front office processes.

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