Three problems. Two of them are temporary.
The firm builds software only where the pattern is common enough, and the platform gap is real enough, that a product is a better answer than another custom engagement.
Reporting turnaround, Crystal Reports scheduling, and Crystal-to-RDL migration all meet that test. Each is shipped as a focused product — not a platform, not a suite — with a deliberately narrow scope and a deliberately clean implementation.
IFS Cloud Reporter
A self-service reporting workspace for IFS Cloud. Business users build the report; IT keeps the governance.
The typical reporting cycle inside IFS Cloud has business users writing requirements, IT translating them into SQL, and both parties reconciling versions for weeks. IFS Cloud Reporter compresses that loop: business users build their own reports against curated data models, secured against enterprise access rules, without dropping into SQL. This is the 2026 reporting destination alongside IFS Report Designer / RDL. Copilots and Digital Workers are only as good as the data definitions underneath.
- Business-user report authoring against curated IFS data
- Enterprise access model tied to IFS security rules
- Faster reporting turnaround — from weeks to hours
- Foundation for dashboards and saved report libraries
- Governance kept in the hands of the ERP team
IFS Cloud clients whose reporting backlog is a chronic executive frustration, and whose ERP team wants to unblock business users without giving up governance.
Crystal Reports Scheduler
For plants that still depend on Crystal while the estate moves to RDL. It makes recurring Crystal execution boring: reliable, logged, and free of batch-file archaeology. It is not the destination.
Every IFS environment with a Crystal Reports history has a familiar problem: dozens of scheduled reports, running through a mix of Windows scheduled tasks, batch files, and manual triggers, with no central visibility into whether the report actually ran, who received it, or why one Monday it did not. The Scheduler replaces that with a single web-based control surface while the plant migrates to Report Designer / RDL.
Customer-hosted holding pattern until Report Designer / RDL. Pair it with the Crystal-to-RDL converter and the Crystal to IFS Report Designer course.
- Centralized scheduling and execution logging
- Email and/or file-share delivery
- Run history and failure alerts
- Ownership and audit trail per report
- Retirement path for aging batch-file infrastructure
IFS Cloud manufacturers with mission-critical recurring Crystal Reports that still depend on server-side task schedulers, batch files, or a single person's memory.
Crystal-to-RDL Report Converter
A conversion engine that turns legacy Crystal report estates into IFS Report Designer RDL, with the mechanical work automated and the judgment calls flagged, not hidden.
The report estate is where IFS Cloud upgrades stall: dozens or hundreds of .rpt files that someone must rebuild in IFS Report Designer, by hand, one at a time. The Converter reads each .rpt through the Crystal Reports SDK, maps the structure into RDL, and hands over files your team can open, validate, and refine, with a written review register for everything that needs human judgment. You cannot stay evergreen on 26R1 with a Crystal estate. The converter automates the mechanical work and flags the judgment calls. Destination files open in IFS Report Designer.
Course: Crystal to IFS Report Designer, CA$780. Consulting and product prices on pricing.
- Automated extraction of .rpt structure via the Crystal SDK
- RDL output ready for IFS Report Designer
- Layout, fields, groups, and parameters converted
- Review register for joins, record selection, complex formulas
- Per-report estate software pricing. Implementation at CA$150 per hour
IFS environments carrying a Crystal Reports estate into an IFS Cloud upgrade, and implementation firms that need conversion capacity across client estates.
Two commitments the firm makes to every product user
The product does one thing well
Neither product tries to become a platform. Reporter is a reporting workspace. Scheduler is a scheduler. The scope is defended, not expanded, so implementations stay short and support stays sane.
The firm owns the implementation
Every product can ship with an implementation engagement at a flat CA$150 per hour: configuration, integration, data-model design, security wiring, so the software does not become the client's problem to make work.
Product fit is best determined in a 30-minute working session.
A walkthrough of the three products against the specific reporting posture of your IFS environment. No commitment.