This is IFS Aurora

To IFS, Aurora serves three key purposes:

• To introduce a new design—a new look—for IFS Applications. All existing windows client forms will be available in the new design.
• To establish a user interface platform on which we can build truly innovative differentiating applications like MaxOEE and IFS/Business Analytics, today and tomorrow.
• To move the client to a modern .Net technology platform, allowing us to benefit from web based deployment and state of the art development tools. Citrix or Terminal Server will no longer be needed to achieve complete web based deployment of IFS Applications.

If we look at what is actually being delivered in the initial Aurora release we find:

• Aurora Enterprise Explorer (Aurora EE). A new user interface and working environment for IFS Applications. In addition to the new design, Aurora EE also offers better user ergonomics, seamless use of web, and many other usability innovations.
• All existing windows client screens available on new technology and running inside Aurora EE.
• An update to IFS Portal and Web Client, featuring the Aurora design and many of the new innovations.
• Tools and processes supporting new development, maintenance, and customization development.

When you look at the total usability of an application, there are three key ingredients: how the application looks and is visually designed, how the user performs common tasks, and how the particular real world problem or task has been modeled and visualized in the application. Aurora brings significant changes and improvements to the first two—design and ergonomics, and provides a platform for IFS to be innovative on the third.

Aurora itself does not change how the functionality in the IFS modules works. Or to put it simply; the customer order screen will still work like the customer order screen does today, whereas how you navigate to it, search for orders, attach documents, zoom to other screens, and much more will change.

Although at first sight Aurora will appear different, it is—as always with IFS—an evolutionary approach. Aurora builds on technology that premiered in IFS Applications 7, improves on the already good features of existing clients, and adds a few innovations of its own.