At IFS we take great pride in making sure our user interfaces are well adapted to the task, the role, as well as the environment of the user. As a result, we have multiple user interfaces, each of them tailored to specific use case scenarios. A wide range of aspects are considered when we make a user interface. Just to mention a few aspects we look at in the design process:
In addition to the standard user interfaces the openness of the IFS Service-Oriented Component Architecture makes it easy to create and integrate other interfaces.
The
landing page is the entry point to the various user interfaces in IFS
Applications.
The landing page is accessed via an URL like https://<FQDN>:<port> (e.g.
https://server101.corpnet.ifsworld.com:48080/). There's also an
administrator's version of the landing page available at
https://<FQDN>:<port>/admin. The administrator's version contains additional
administartion interfaces.
IFS Enterprise Explorer is the user interface for employees accessing from Windows devices. It provides an intuitive, effective, and highly productive user interface for IFS Applications. It is a rich, web-deployed interface that will work alongside and in synergy with the other interfaces like mobile client interface and the IFS Aurena interface.
IFS Aurena is the browser based user interface for employees as well as business-to-business users. It works alongside and in synergy with IFS Enterprise Explorer and other user interfaces.
Just as IFS Enterprise Explorer, IFS Aurena provides an intuitive, effective, and highly productive user interface for IFS Applications. It also provides platform independency, responsiveness to screen size and orientation, as well as range of new visual controls and design patterns. All contributing to a great user experience.
In addition to the IFS Aurena browser based user interface that also works on mobile devices IFS provides a set of task and role specific native mobile apps for various use case scenarios. These apps provide a user interface specifically designed for mobile use and quite often adds support for offline usage as well.
