How a major aerospace and defense manufacturer redesigned its enterprise architecture to bring its application footprint from under 5% to as much as 80% inside IFS Cloud.
of the application footprint inside IFS, up from under 5%
of technical debt retired
planning horizons: 5, 10 and 15 years
The Challenge
A major aerospace and defense manufacturer had implemented IFS version 8 fifteen years earlier. Over those years the business slowly stripped core functionality out of the system and pushed critical processes into disconnected workarounds.
By the time the company acted, less than 5% of its total enterprise application footprint was running inside IFS. For an enterprise scale, high stakes operation that demands robust security, absolute precision and zero room for error, the architecture had become completely fragmented.
The Approach
The catalyst was a renewed commitment from the company: stop treating IFS as an outdated legacy tool and invest in it as the central platform for real digital transformation. Coredrive was brought in to lead an extremely comprehensive solution design phase and rethink the entire enterprise architecture ahead of the move to IFS Cloud.
The Solution
- Solution design: a deep design phase that rethought the whole software landscape before a single line of data moved.
- Long horizon architecture: an enterprise architecture built against 5, 10 and 15 year horizons so it stays aligned with long term business goals.
- Architecture redesign: a framework engineered to support the scale of the operation, pulling fragmented processes back into IFS.
- Secure migration to IFS Cloud: a staged path from sunsetting the 15 year old IFS 8 environment, through a highly secure implementation phase, to full deployment in IFS Cloud.
The Results
Consolidation
80%
of the enterprise application footprint inside IFS Cloud, up from under 5%
Core business functionality reclaimed in one modern, unified platform
Long Term Position
15 years
of technical debt and fragmented workarounds retired
Positioned for scalable, secure growth across a 15 year horizon