We’re going to IFS Unleashed 2026 — as a Gold Sponsor

Here’s where it gets more specific, because “AI-powered ERP platform” has become a phrase every vendor uses this year, and we’d rather show you what decades of IFS upgrade work actually looks like in practice.

Start with a problem a lot of IFS Cloud customers are about to hit: with 26R2, IFS is removing Crystal Reports from the platform entirely. If you’re like most organizations that have been on IFS for a while, there’s a good chance Crystal Reports is quietly doing real work — invoices, pick lists, compliance documents, built up over years into hundreds of layouts nobody wants to touch. With Novacura Flow Connect, you get two ways forward instead of one forced migration. You can keep your existing Crystal Reports — standard and custom — fully integrated with IFS Cloud and triggered manually from a Flow app or automatically from an IFS event, with no layouts to rebuild. Or you can move gradually to Flow’s native reporting toolbox for documents, labels, and portals, report by report, on your own schedule. That’s what “decades of upgrade experience” means in practice — we’ve moved custom logic out of the IFS core often enough to know how to do it without breaking what already works.

The AI story follows the same principle: powerful, but deliberately kept on rails. Novacura’s ERP Fusion AI Engine can turn a plain-language description of an IFS process into a working application — without ever modifying the IFS core. Every app it generates inherits the same governance as everything else in Flow: role-based access, a full audit trail of who built and changed what, and controlled usage so AI generation doesn’t quietly become an unmanaged cost line. We’re not selling you a chatbot bolted onto IFS. We’re selling you AI that behaves like the rest of your ERP governance already expects it to.

For the people actually running transactions all day, the standard IFS interface is a lot to ask — it’s built for power users, not for someone running thirty scans an hour on a warehouse floor. Because we’ve spent years inside IFS’s data model, we can strip that complexity down to a mobile-first interface that does one job well, with nothing lost underneath in IFS. The same philosophy applies to inventory: mobile scanning, guided putaway, picking, and cycle counting, delivered as a mobile-first layer that complements WADACO rather than replacing it. The app enforces the scan instead of relying on someone typing the right bin, so your inventory data stays closer to what’s actually on the shelf.

Field service gets the same treatment. Utilities crews, construction sites, remote wells — offline is still the reality for field service in 2026, whatever the marketing decks say. Flow apps keep working with zero connectivity and sync the moment a signal returns, with digital forms, e-signatures, and full audit trails built into the workflow instead of bolted on as paperwork afterward.

And if you’re still on IFS 10, 9, 8, or 7.5, we know exactly why the Cloud migration keeps getting pushed to next year: years of custom logic that took real time and money to build, with no clear way to know what breaks on the way over. Our API Comparator maps exactly what changes before you commit, and Flow moves the custom logic itself out of the IFS core — so it survives the migration, and every Evergreen update after it, instead of getting re-fought at every release.