Three problems, seen inside almost every IFS environment. Each 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, 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
- Fixed-scope, per-report estate pricing
IFS environments carrying a Crystal Reports estate into an IFS Cloud upgrade — and implementation partners who need repeatable 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 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 three products against the specific reporting posture of your IFS environment. No commitment.