Two problems, seen inside almost every IFS environment. Both worth solving cleanly.
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 and Crystal Reports scheduling both meet that test. Both are shipped as focused products — not platforms, not suites — with deliberately narrow scopes and deliberately clean implementations.
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.
- 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
A web-based scheduler that makes recurring Crystal Reports execution boring — reliable, controlled, and free of the batch-file archaeology most organizations quietly depend on.
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.
- Centralized scheduling and execution logging
- Delivery routing — email, file share, SFTP
- Run history and failure alerts
- Ownership and audit trail per report
- Retirement path for aging batch-file infrastructure
IFS and Oracle-based environments with mission-critical recurring Crystal Reports that still depend on server-side task schedulers, batch files, or a single person's memory.
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 ships with a fixed-scope implementation engagement — 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 two products against the specific reporting posture of your IFS environment. No commitment.