Web Services/service oriented architecture (SOA), which have lately been on almost every vendor's lips, do have a potential of becoming the latest evolution of application integration technology and/or a revolutionary new web-based application design model by enabling developers to create or enhance applications by connecting granular components that are recognized and accessed via platform-independent Web protocols. While Web services leverage the aged (and not well utilized) concept of objects' encapsulation and reusability, they may finally offer that extra mile by adherence to standards that are increasingly taking hold (see The SOAP Opera Progresses - Helping XML to Rule the World).
Further, Web Services components tend to be simpler in their nature, partly owing to the Internet standards, and they also tend to be higher-level abstractions, which implies more likely platform independence and "mixing and matching" opportunity by developers. Although initiatives such as UDDI still need to prove themselves commercially, the SOAP protocol and the basic idea of using open standards to communicate over existing infrastructure appear to be solid, and have already gained some acceptance. Having long mastered the area of objects/components, by adding Web services capabilities to the IFS Connect integration framework, IFS should offer its customers a compelling value proposition of achieving cost and time savings by using Web services for application integration. The concept may also help IFS penetrate autonomous divisions of some open-minded decentralized global corporations that are already Tier 1 vendors' customers at the HQ level.
In addition to its product technology evangelism, IFS has also been noted for its strong functionality across product design/engineering and manufacturing/shop floor (e.g., machine interfaces, wireless interfaces, equipment monitoring, finite scheduling, etc.) areas, and with a strong ability to satisfy maintenance and asset intensive environments (with, e.g., preventative maintenance, graphical maintenance workload, resource planning & utilization, and other pertinent features).
Nearly all manufacturing environments are catered to from engineer-to-order (ETO), configure-to-order (CTO), make-to-stock (MTS), repetitive, mixed mode/hybrid, and especially within complex, large scale project engineering setups. Having traditionally done implementations via its product delivery organization, IFS has also long exhibited a focus on product quality and customer satisfaction, manifested in a lasting relationship with each client. As a display of a high level of self-confidence in its fast and successful implementations and subsequent after-sales lifecycle/upgrades, the company boasts a long list of delighted customer references.
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http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/ifs-to-be-at-customers-web-service-part-2-market-impact-user-recommendations-16695/
Further, Web Services components tend to be simpler in their nature, partly owing to the Internet standards, and they also tend to be higher-level abstractions, which implies more likely platform independence and "mixing and matching" opportunity by developers. Although initiatives such as UDDI still need to prove themselves commercially, the SOAP protocol and the basic idea of using open standards to communicate over existing infrastructure appear to be solid, and have already gained some acceptance. Having long mastered the area of objects/components, by adding Web services capabilities to the IFS Connect integration framework, IFS should offer its customers a compelling value proposition of achieving cost and time savings by using Web services for application integration. The concept may also help IFS penetrate autonomous divisions of some open-minded decentralized global corporations that are already Tier 1 vendors' customers at the HQ level.
In addition to its product technology evangelism, IFS has also been noted for its strong functionality across product design/engineering and manufacturing/shop floor (e.g., machine interfaces, wireless interfaces, equipment monitoring, finite scheduling, etc.) areas, and with a strong ability to satisfy maintenance and asset intensive environments (with, e.g., preventative maintenance, graphical maintenance workload, resource planning & utilization, and other pertinent features).
Nearly all manufacturing environments are catered to from engineer-to-order (ETO), configure-to-order (CTO), make-to-stock (MTS), repetitive, mixed mode/hybrid, and especially within complex, large scale project engineering setups. Having traditionally done implementations via its product delivery organization, IFS has also long exhibited a focus on product quality and customer satisfaction, manifested in a lasting relationship with each client. As a display of a high level of self-confidence in its fast and successful implementations and subsequent after-sales lifecycle/upgrades, the company boasts a long list of delighted customer references.
SOURCE:-
http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/ifs-to-be-at-customers-web-service-part-2-market-impact-user-recommendations-16695/
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