Played a key project management role to scope, design, configure, test and deploy IFS on time and within budget.
The implementation impacted over 100 users and covering Sales, Maintenance, Logistics, Services and Finance.
Worked at CXO level to help global organisation with building and delivering solution across multiple sites. The solution was built and rolled out to Norway, Finland, Sweden, Poland, South Korea & China in.
AMEL helped the organisation with changing the IFS application to meet the end users requirements.
CFO asked AMEL to help with developing reports to provide better transparency on costs and margins. A set of new reports were provided to assist the management with tracking costs and revenue.
Combination of Quick & Crystal Reports were developed quickly and cost effectively.
AMEL is now helping the organisation with getting better usage of IFS by showing them how to configure the software effectively.
AMEL Consulting conducted an extensive research on customers intentions for upgrading their IFS software.
Fifty five (55) customers from across regions and industries completed the survey. This has provided us with indicative view on upgrade intentions and reasons.
The research was independent of the software vendor (IFS) and was conducted to assess the upgrading intentions of customers who are still on older versions of IFS (7.5 and older). Research key messages include:
1. IFS Upgrade Status
38% of the companies who took part in the survey have upgraded to APPS 8, leaving 62% still operating on older versions of IFS.
2. APPS 9 Upgrade Intentions
16% of companies surveyed would consider an upgrade to APPS 9 in 2015, with another 30% considering it in 2016. 16% of the respondents would not consider an upgrade to APPS 9 until 2017 or later. 38% of those surveyed had no firm plans to upgrade yet.
3. Upgrade to APPS 8 or APPS 9 ?
27% of the respondents are considering upgrading to APPS 8, with 55% choosing to wait for the release of APPS 9 before upgrading.
4. Reasons for Upgrading
62% of companies responded with leverage new functionality/enhancements as the main reason for upgrading. This was followed closely with 42% of respondents choosing improved software performance and reliability. Reduced number of customisations was the third highest reason for upgrading at 38%, with 35% selecting improved end users buy-in satisfaction. Only 12% chose comply with vendor request (software supportability) as a driver for upgrading.
15% of those surveyed gave additional reasons for upgrading, which included:
Assignment Scope
E-Helpers are a team of independent experts in IFS who provide you with fast, cost effective and quality resolutions to any IFS software problem – big or small on an hourly on-demand basis
AMEL Consulting has conducted global, independent research to assess the intentions of IFS customers towards upgrading.
Here are our findings.
A large number of IFS customers have not yet upgraded to APPS 8.
Out of the companies surveyed:
The majority of companies on older versions plan to upgrade straight to APPS 9.
The main driver for upgrading is new functionality/enchancements.
Assignment Scope
E-Helpers are a team of independent experts in IFS who provide you with fast, cost effective and quality resolutions to any IFS software problem – big or small on an hourly on-demand basis
A number of our customers using IFS who have not upgraded are asking us about the benefits of Custom Field functionalities and how they can be used to replace existing modifications to reduce maintenance costs and future upgrade efforts. We are also getting similar requests from organisations who have upgraded to APPS 8 and want to know how they can use Custom Fields effectively and safely especially if they are upgrading to future versions.
This Webinar will cover the following topics and showing how businesses could be making use of Custom Fields.
Introduction
Creating Simple Custom Fields (e.g. adding new field in PO screen)
Creating Complex Custom Fields
Restrictions
A number of our customers have IFS Business Analytics (BA) as part of their current suite of modules. Others are actively looking for easy to use Reporting/Analytics Tools so they can get better insight into their Financials, Projects, Products, Inventory, Customers and Suppliers. This webinar will touch on the following topics and show how businesses could be making use of Business Analytics.
Introduction
IFS Business Analytics
Topic 1: Information Sources
Topic 2: Simple Report Development
Topic 3: Repeaters & Filters
Topic 4: Copy and Paste
Topic 5: Parameters & Drill Downs
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