IFS API
IFS Cloud exposes a broad REST and OData API through projections, with OpenAPI specs downloadable from the public API Explorer. Access requires a tenant and OAuth 2.0 credentials issued by IFS IAM; nothing is self-serve. Customizations face a forced PL/SQL-to-OData migration.
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IFS scores F on the API Report Card. IFS Cloud exposes a broad REST and OData API through projections, with OpenAPI specs downloadable from the public API Explorer. Access requires a tenant and OAuth 2.0 credentials issued by IFS IAM; nothing is self-serve. Customizations face a forced PL/SQL-to-OData migration.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
IFS (Industrial and Financial Systems) is a Linkoping, Sweden-headquartered enterprise software vendor founded in 1983, now majority-owned by EQT and Hg, that builds IFS Cloud, a converged industrial ERP, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Field Service Management (FSM) and Enterprise Service Management (ESM) platform for asset-intensive industries.
Primary vertical: Enterprise / HR / ERP, specifically industrial ERP, EAM and FSM for asset- and service-intensive industries. An airline MRO operation runs IFS Cloud as the system of record for aircraft maintenance: tail-number-level work orders, configuration management, regulatory traceability, parts inventory, and technician dispatch.
High in its target industries, modest overall versus SAP/Oracle.
IFS Cloud runs business-critical workflows that directly drive revenue, safety, and regulatory compliance for asset-intensive operators: aircraft and drilling-rig maintenance work orders and configuration history (with airworthiness/regulatory traceability), preventive maintenance schedules for power plants and utility assets, field-technician dispatch and parts logistics, project accounting and progress billing for construction and engineering firms, MRP and shop-floor execution for discrete manufacturers, procurement and inventory across multi-site operations, and AR/AP/GL for the underlying ERP.
IFS was founded in 1983 in Linkoping, Sweden, and its product lineage runs through IFS Applications 1 through 10 and into the unified IFS Cloud platform (first released 2021).
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.