IFS Cloud Platform Scalability

Patrick Abi Habib - PeerSpot reviewer
IFS Applications & Data Migration consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I rate IFS Apps eight out of 10 for scalability. It is super-scalable for now. In the cloud, they are internalizing scalability, trying to do it themselves instead of letting third parties do it.

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Brendan Fisher - PeerSpot reviewer
IFS Applications Consultant at Zest Business Process Management Ltd

The solution is highly scalable. I'd rate it a ten out of ten in terms of the ability to expand. 

I'm working with three different companies that are using the solution. The user base would be around 1,400 on average performing more than 100 transactions per user per day but this is a tiny fraction of the system's capabilities. 

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Troy Zeleznik - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate the scalability as 10 out of 10. It's very scalable for multi-companies and multi-currency.

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RG
Manager at Hal

It may be a scalable tool, but I am unsure since I use the older version. I don't know about the solution's scalability in the latest version. Hence, I won't be able to give any feedback. More than 500 people in my company are using the solution. I don't have any data on how many administrators in my company use the solution. We are upgrading the solution to the latest version since we are increasing the usage of the solution in our company.

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Rafal Zaborowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Supply Chain Manager, Proxy, Matw Global D&I Council Memeber at SAUERESSIG Group

Scalability in IFS Applications is very good, so it's a nine out of ten.

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FabrizioMagistrelli - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Business Applications at Bio Products Laboratory Limited

IFS Applications is a scalable solution. Our business model is that we are a single-site user of IFS Applications, although our parent company uses SAP. If we needed to scale up our use of IFS Applications, we have an in-house team that can handle it from a technical and infrastructure standpoint. It would not be a problem.

We have approximately 542 users using this solution and we plan to increase our usage with HR to 1,000 users.

I rate the scalability of IFS Applications an eight out of ten.

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UG
Software Engineer at Millat

The solution can handle a minimum of 400 users.

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Jaroslav Kratochvíl - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Delivery Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would rate the scalability of IFS Applications as a seven out of ten. This tool is used by about 500 users in our company. However, since we use the enterprise license, there is a case of live use where we can use the expense-approving features and more. Therefore, I expect almost every employee in my company to use the solution.

IFS Applications are multi-site systems where we can extend the usage by opening new sites. We don’t use many instances of the multi-site feature of IFS. However, I have seen it in the past.

We are rolling out HR, warehouse management, and perhaps manufacturing in the future. Therefore, there can be around 400 heavy users and thousands of light users for approving things. The number of users is expected to grow quite soon.

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MS
CEO North America at Axios

This product is good for large organizations, with 2,500-250,000 employees.

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TM
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I give the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten. From a technical perspective, scalability can be achieved by allocating more resources or by moving the system to a cloud environment, allowing the backend to be scaled quite easily. The IFS system is highly scalable, both in terms of integrations and computing power, due to its open APIs. The solution is also highly flexible in terms of licensing, with the ability to purchase subscription licenses for additional users. Finally, the system is designed to handle multi-company mergers, with the ability to easily create subsidiary entities within the same system.

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GirirajInja - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT operations at Karma tecnology

IFS Applications is scalable because it has a .Net application and WebLogic, which give it more flexibility in terms of scalability.

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AS
Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I rate IFS eight out of 10 for scalability. Each release has several updates before they bring out the new release. For example, my company is on version 10, update 7. Some of the issues or projects we want to do require us to be on update 19. At times, it isn't easy to go from update 7 to update 12

We have to check with IFS to see if we can automatically go from 7 to 12 and not have to implement the update incrementally. We contacted IFS, and they told us there are no significant code changes so we can go straight to 12. Sometimes, there are restrictions depending on the code that's been changed. Or they might have added new functionality that requires you to update step by step rather than make that big jump between updates.

The other day, we talked about going from 12 to 19, which is a significant jump. We're unsure if we can do that directly or if we must apply other updates along the way. You don't want the current processes affected by moving to a higher update. Our team has to do a lot of work to test all our processes in a test environment with 12. If you do it incrementally, you have to try each update.

When it's time to implement these updates, they should know what issues they might encounter. Not every customer will have the same problems. A lot of it comes down to customization. If we've requested modifications to the core system, that also factors into our testing. IFS is delivering the update to the core solution, but we have to consider custom fields, venues, pages, etc., that we have in place. We have to make sure that these work with the updates.

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DA
Senior Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine or ten out of ten since it is an extremely scalable solution that can be used for various use cases with thousands of users. The product is geared up to grow with the business.

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RG
Manager at Hal

I believe the solution to be quite scalable. 

Right now, we have about 500 people or more using it.

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CK
Works at Whitford

The scalability of the system has worked very well for us

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Waqar Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is highly scalable.

Many small businesses are using this solution.

I rate the solution's scalability a ten out of ten.

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AF
Sr. Project Consultant (IFS-Complex MRO Process) at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Scalability is complex because of dependencies. For any core level modification, it's not that easy like other product lines because the OEM vendors give the choice of modifying the core. However, IFS doesn't appreciate modifying the core, and there's a restriction there. You really have to change the application to match the business requirements. It's a kind of a complex scenario. We have about 300 people currently using this solution.

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AS
IT Quality Section Head at Saudi Public Transport Company JSC

it is scalable and its performance is good

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it_user341172 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not encountered any issues with scalability.

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Business Development Coordinator at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees

We have around 200 users.

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SG
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

IFS Applications is highly scalable. This is not only its ability to handle large volumes of data but also in terms of its ability to add new modules and features over time. IFS Applications has a lot of sub-modules to choose from, which can be confusing to navigate, but it also provides the capability to add new components if needed. Additionally, the solution can be localized for new countries as needed, which allows for a high level of flexibility and capability.

We have approximately 4,000 users using this solution across the globe.

Whether we use the solution on a daily basis depends on the specific module, but for many users, it is used on a daily basis. However, for management-level users, it may be used less frequently. For those who are responsible for inputting transactions, it would be a daily task. 70 percent of users are using the solution on a daily basis.

I rate the scalability of IFS Applications a nine out of ten.

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SR
Principal Consultant at a training & coaching company with 1-10 employees

The solution's architecture is definitely scalable. One of my clients has 60 to 70 technicians working on the product. A more affordable product may be something like BMC or even ServiceNow.

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it_user653649 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product & Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have never had any scalability issues.

For extreme scalability and reliability, IFS supports deployment models ranging
from small servers to large, high-performance database servers with multiple applications servers running in parallel.

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it_user135945 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have only had scalability issues in terms of hardware. The product scales well. However, the original hardware requirements were not specified high enough to meet the number of users. We increased disk I/O on the server to resolve this issue.

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AA
Managing Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Our maintenance is about 20 hours per month, or less. Maintenance was not significant. The product was a huge product, so we had a lot of people. When the product was in month two or three there were almost ten people. We are in 24 states here in Brazil, and a lot of offices were running at the same time. But if we're talking about just one company, even a big company, we had one or two people doing implementation.

And it wasn't a surprise in the private sector that at a big company or enterprise it would about three months of three people working.

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VS
Presales and Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's a scalable product. We can scale it easily and it is not a problem.

We provided services for all types of clients. We deal with very large clients to small growing clients as well.

This solution is suitable for any size of company and there are no constraints.

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VS
Presales and Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Scalability isn't a problem at all. It's very easy to do if a company needs to expand the solution.

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