All customers that plan to migrate to the IFS Cloud should independently analyze the impact of the problems listed above on their individual IFS infrastructure. Different installations might expose different problems and some problems might not occur at all in some cases. We at Novacura know, that analyzing these potential problems is a complex task, especially because the O-Data interface is new and there is not enough practical knowledge about it in the market. And what is especially important here, when planning the migration companies can’t base only on theoretical assumptions – aspects like efficiency or security might need specific tests to evaluate the scale of the problem.
But there is also some positive information – we at Novacura feel responsible for IFS Customers and we want to share our expertise in the IFS O-Data API area. Therefore we have analyzed and done several tests for all the listed barriers above and gained in-depth knowledge during the process. We want to share our findings with you, so we are releasing a weekly series of articles for the upcoming weeks.
We will start by showing some specific replacement patterns: a few typical situations like updating data, reading data, calling a simple method. We will show an example of an API from an old standard method, PL/SQL and replace it using the new OData method.
We will also clarify how you choose installation location – in the Cloud or on-prem. And don’t worry, we will also help you plan and estimate the scale of a “prepare for IFS Cloud” project.
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