Dan Matthews

Dan is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at IFS R&D, with over 25 years experience of in driving strategic initiatives and teams within the technology, platform, and innovation areas. Dan is deeply engaged in all major technology initiatives for IFS Cloud, as well as acquisitions and product integration strategies. He has started and built multiple key teams in IFS including IFS Labs and IFS Demo Showroom. Dan has a passion and unique ability to understand customers’ realities, connecting those with product and technology strategies, all the way to detailed discussions with developers and architects.

| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | IFS Cloud
Why we should never talk about multi-tenant applications again

I really enjoy talking with customers about the technology strategy and platform that underpins our IFS Cloud enterprise software, and…

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Three ways low-code no-code can increase ROI on enterprise software
low code

Low-code or no-code is something enterprise software companies have been moving towards for obvious reasons—the chief one being that it…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Agilité d'entreprise, Créativité & Innovation, Industries, Technology
Équipements industriels connectés : mythes et réalités

Le marché des équipements connectés industriels dont la technologie repose sur l’IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) est en pleine croissance….

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Second time lucky for role-based user experiences?

History is full of concepts and products that flopped or ended up as nice products used for very limited purposes….

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Family, Windows 10 and Evergreen ERP

As those of you who work in IT will surely recognize, the mere fact that you “work with computers” means…

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Completing the Picture – IFS acquires VisionWaves
IFS | VisionWaves

Today IFS announced the acquisition of VisionWaves. I feel really good about this as the acquisition completes an area where we have been investing strategically. In a way, you could say that we have been piecing together a puzzle over the last few years, and the addition of VisionWaves completes the picture.

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Outstanding business visibility with IFS Lobby

It’s one thing to have current, reliable business information and put it into the hands of the people who need…

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Embedded CRM in IFS Applications 9 gives you an ERP system with CRM functionality

Imagine an enterprise application that combines ERP and CRM in a single package. No more using CRM as a separate…

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IFS Applications 9 takes business agility to the next level
IFS Applications 9

IFS Applications 9 – it’s here, announced today at the IFS World Conference 2015 in Boston! This new version of…

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Oracle OpenWorld Takeaways

It’s been a couple of weeks since Oracle once again invaded San Francisco with their 2014 edition of Oracle OpenWorld. Having had a chance to digest and reflect a bit I walked away with two more, as well as two surprises.

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In-Memory Done Right
memory chips

I believe the approach taken by Oracle is the right one. After all, why would we in the software industry learn new tools and skills to develop against a new database when we can get the same benefits as an incremental update to the databases we know well?

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The Making and Breaking of the Internet of Things
Industry 4.0

2014 will go down in history as the year when the Internet of Things (IoT) hype peaked. Thus the interesting question becomes what will happen next? Will IoT follow the usual pattern of a set-back due to overinflated expectations, only to return later as widely adopted part of our lives? Or will IoT be the exception that goes directly from hype to use?

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