We performed a comparison between IFS Cloud Platform and Infor VISUAL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and others in ERP."IFS has been completely rebuilt, modernized, and cloud-based so we don't need bulky software installations."
"The most valuable feature is the distribution module."
"The most valuable features of IFS Applications are their intuitiveness and ease of use. The navigations are also straightforward, which makes it easy to train users. The feedback I always receive is that it is very user-friendly."
"Feature-wise, I like the way it provides inventory details...It is a stable solution."
"There tends not to be a massive weakness in the product itself, as weaknesses can quickly be resolved in the next patch or the next release."
"One of our favorite features is the "Info-Zone", which provides operational intelligence in flight and in context to guide both business users and support teams to productivity."
"Some of the strengths are Enterprise Management Solutions and the series of Management solutions which is number one in Gartner's report and has been for the last five years."
"Individual user profiles that can be configured as templates to minimize data entry."
"The most valuable features of Infor VISUAL are its powerful accounting, multicurrency functionality, and production aspects. We implement the manufacturing for many customers. These are the main goals of the solution."
"IFS uses Crystal Report mostly, which isn't too user-friendly. Developing reports isn't easy and requires a lot of dev time. Since SAP bought it, Crystal Report has become more complicated to use on IFS. You have a dashboard for reporting that is good, but it's incomplete. Most of our clients use Power BI or some additional tooling for BI."
"Ability to place approval check-points in the custom workflow, so clients can decide what they want it."
"The CRM was shaky and although this improves in Apps 10, there is room for improvement."
"There were initial difficulties when I started using the application."
"Customization needs to be improved."
"The next version has already been released, and some of the technical things are a little bit behind the curve in development. This is specifically security, maintenance, security role maintenance, and creation. This is in their new product, called IFS Cloud."
"An area for improvement would be transactions, which can be tedious to complete as the process is very complex."
"The solution needs to improve its documentation and user-friendliness."
"There is a tool in Infor VISUAL that is called Costing Utilities, they should make the functionality more flexible."
IFS Cloud Platform is ranked 9th in ERP with 29 reviews while Infor VISUAL is ranked 32nd in ERP with 2 reviews. IFS Cloud Platform is rated 7.8, while Infor VISUAL is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of IFS Cloud Platform writes "Robust, customizable, and modern". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infor VISUAL writes "I consider this to be a good package but as in most ERP systems the reporting is lacking". IFS Cloud Platform is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and IBM Maximo, whereas Infor VISUAL is most compared with Infor LN, SAP ERP and Epicor ERP.
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