IFS/Business Analytics Overview

An IFS built, Excel add-in

• For reporting, analysis and planning

• l With 100% Excel experience

Access data from any business process within IFS Applications optimized for information workers:

• Fancials, projects, work order, etc

Business users can generate the most accurate, useful spreadsheet reports possible using the tools they already know.

IFS/BI Services (Solution Manager)

• New storage and presentation of the data within IFS Applications
• Meta Data that transforms data into logical information templates
• Administration and configuration
• Data base storing and publishing of report templates

IFS/Info Services

• Online and scheduled report deployment and delivering

IFS/Document Management

• Scheduled reports can automatically be stored in Document Management
  

With IFS/Business Analytics, your data is protected with the same high level of security as IFS Applications – down to row level security

• Accurate and secure data capture and storage – data from Excel is saved in the IFS database
• Secure workspaces
• Proactive monitoring of controls
• The integration and data access is based on .Net, IFS SOA and no usage of SQL which protects the IFS database from vulnerability

The IFS Supply Chain Management

The IFS SCM is based on the assumption that our customers benefit the most from starting with their internal supply chains where most of our customers still have a large potential for improvement. In addition we can then help our customers when they start moving outwards to their external value chains, working with visibility and collaboration, EDI/XML based messaging etc. The only supply chain management solution the customer will ever need IFS Applications software offers a non-stop solution to challenges of bridging the gaps in our customers supply chains. The inter-site functionality and portal technology in IFS Applications enables to improve supply chain and streamline operations regardless of numbers of sites. With IFS Applications it is easy to plan, execute and evaluate supply chain performance. The result is faster return on investments, happier, more loyal and satisfied customers. The IFS approach The IFS/Supply Chain Management approach is based on a process-oriented strategy to optimize supply chain performance. The approach is to provide visualization of supply chains for people making informed and cost efficient decisions. By using the ERP product suit based on the Supply Chain Management concept we can use the power of integration, visualization, collaboration and event notification to support people in the decision making process along the supply chain. Views of solutions IFS addresses the complexity of the Supply Chain by giving the customer three views of solutions. · Supply chain planning: Visibility and collaboration; through portals covering forecasting, demand planning, supply chain event management, and more. (VMI, collaborative planning, program management) · Supply chain execution: Supported through a combination of the portal strategy and site-centric planning and execution functionality. Based on SCOR process definitions. Here we include Source, make, deliver and return processes. (Think always in a multi-site environment). (Internal ordering, e.g. customer and supplier schedules via EDI/XML and more.) · Supply chain performance: Focusing business and supply chain effectiveness, with solutions for business performance, key performance indicators and scorecards. (Based on SCOR process Performance attributes & metrics.)

Oracle9i Considerations

Standard Edition vs. Enterprise Edition

Oracle distributes their software in two alternative releases, Standard Edition (SE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). From Oracle9i release1 both these releases are on the same CD-ROM so when you install Oracle you have to choose either to install Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition. IFS Applications are built to work with Standard Edition but some extra features are available when IFS Applications is used with Enterprise Edition. Remember to install the edition you have chosen to license from Oracle.

Besides the license fee for the different releases the only difference between Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition, from an IFS Applications perspective, is which Oracle software has been installed and that Enterprise Edition offers some more sophisticated features. Oracle Standard Edition includes all the software needed to run the database e.g. RDBMS, SQL*Plus, SQL*Net, administration software etc. There is no performance difference between Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition (unless using some additional EE features), just the amount of products being installed. So installing EE instead of SE will not always gain performance in your instance, in fact performance can decrease since the EE installation is much larger and starts a number unused background processes.

IFS recommends that you install Oracle Standard Edition unless you need to use Enterprise Edition functionality such as Oracle Real Application Cluster, Oracle StandBy Database, Partitioning, OLAP etc.

Due to an unpublished bug 2211325 it is impossible to make a custom Standard Edition installation using the Oracle9i release2 CD.

The only way to make a proper Standard Edition installation of Oracle9i release2 is to make a complete Standard Edition installation and then uninstall all unnecessary products.

All other attempts to make a custom Standard Edition installation will end up in an Enterprise Edition installation and this will cause licensing problems. Therefore it is extremely important to make the installation right from the beginning.

Disable Remember Password in client

Disable Remember Password

To disable "Remember Password",
just disable "Remember Password" check box.

IFS Windows ClientIf system administrator or security officers
wishes to disable "Remember Password" for some reason
(e.g. security policy compliance)
it is possible to manually disable the functionality for all clients and all users.
Removing the IFS file Ifslsa.dll from the runtime folder achieves this.
Warning!
All client executables started this runtime folder
will loose the ability to locally remember password.