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  "erp",
  "enterprise",
  "field-service"
 ],
 "deployment": "hybrid",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "IFS presents IFS Cloud as its composable platform for ERP, assets, service, field work, projects, manufacturing, supply chain, and industry workflows.",
   "source": "https://www.ifs.com/products/ifs-cloud",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "platforms",
   "note": "Current IFS Cloud documentation covers the browser-based Cloud Web client and maintained mobile business applications for iOS and Android.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "IFS Cloud is a commercially licensed enterprise platform delivered as managed cloud or customer-operated remote deployment.",
   "source": "https://www.ifs.com/products/ifs-cloud",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "IFS Cloud exposes tenant APIs and their specifications through the built-in API Explorer.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "Projection and entity endpoints are HTTPS REST services used by external integrations and Cloud Web.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[1]",
   "note": "IFS projection and Entity Service APIs expose OData v4 entities, queries, CRUD, actions, functions, and state transitions.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/060_development/050_development_tools/002_developer_studio/030_reference/930_entity_service_apis/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[2]",
   "note": "API Explorer exports OpenAPI v2 and v3 plus OData service documents for account-specific projections.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[3]",
   "note": "IFS Cloud Interoperability exchanges standardized CloudEvents and asynchronous messages with IFS.ai services.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/030_administration/030_integration/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "IFS prefers OAuth 2.0 client credentials for non-interactive integrations and scopes the resulting bearer token through IAM client and permission configuration.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/010_get_started/300_authentication_and_authorization/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Premium, integration, standard, and entity APIs collectively cover supported business scenarios and lower-level entity CRUD, but consumers must prefer stable API classes and activate entity services deliberately.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/060_development/050_development_tools/002_developer_studio/030_reference/930_entity_service_apis/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.cli.exists",
   "note": "Remote deployments include command-line build, fetch, validation, installer, database, middle-tier, and delivery scripts for Windows and Linux.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/070_remote_deploy/010_installing_fresh_system/200_installing_ifs_cloud/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting",
   "note": "IFS supports projection and entity modeling, workflows, application and custom events, REST actions, and IFS Connect routing and transformations.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/030_administration/030_integration/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.webhooks",
   "note": "Application or custom data-change events can evaluate conditions and call external APIs through REST event actions and IFS Connect.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/030_administration/090_automation_optimization/320_events/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export",
   "note": "OData, CloudEvents, IFS Connect messages, connectivity outboxes, migration jobs, and file transports provide structured export paths.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/030_administration/030_integration/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import",
   "note": "OData writes, REST and message connectors, connectivity inboxes, CSV or Excel migration, files, and database migration jobs provide governed import paths.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/030_administration/030_integration/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "The account-aware API estate is broad, metadata-rich, read/write, event-enabled, OpenAPI-exportable, OAuth-secured, and explicitly classified for lifecycle stability; projection coupling, activation, and release-specific support prevent a top score.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.cli",
   "note": "IFS supplies substantial scripted lifecycle automation for remote deployments, but managed-cloud customers do not operate it and it does not expose ordinary ERP transactions.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/070_remote_deploy/010_installing_fresh_system/200_installing_ifs_cloud/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current 26R1 API Explorer, API class, deprecation, and specification reference.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current 26R1 entity-service integration guidance.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/060_development/050_development_tools/002_developer_studio/030_reference/930_entity_service_apis/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current 26R1 IFS Connect, Connectivity, and CloudEvents integration index.",
   "source": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/030_administration/030_integration/",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
 ],
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  "last_verified": "2026-08-17",
  "volatility": "high",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/060_development/050_development_tools/002_developer_studio/030_reference/930_entity_service_apis/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/030_administration/030_integration/"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://www.ifs.com/products/ifs-cloud",
 "id": "ifs-cloud",
 "license": "commercial",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": "unknown"
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "oauth2-client-credentials"
   ],
   "coverage": "full",
   "docs": "https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/26r1/040_tailoring/300_extensibility/020_api_explorer/010_navigate/",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest",
    "odata",
    "openapi",
    "cloud-events"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": true
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "odata-json",
    "openapi",
    "cloud-events",
    "xml",
    "csv",
    "files"
   ],
   "import": [
    "odata-json",
    "xml",
    "csv",
    "files"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [
    "projections",
    "entity-service-apis",
    "custom-events",
    "workflows",
    "ifs-connect"
   ],
   "webhooks": true
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": "unknown",
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "unknown"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. OData projections, entity services, workflows, custom events, REST event actions, IFS Connect, CloudEvents, data migration, and deployment scripts provide supported alternatives to controlling IFS Cloud Web or its mobile business apps.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom",
    "mobile-native"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": "unknown",
   "languages": [],
   "official": "unknown"
  }
 },
 "name": "IFS Cloud",
 "platforms": [
  "web",
  "ios",
  "android"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "sap-s4hana",
   "oracle-netsuite",
   "dynamics-365-business-central"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "IFS",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 8,
   "cli": 5,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": null,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "IFS Cloud exposes a broad integration and automation layer across ERP, enterprise asset management, service management, and field service. Its projection APIs are OData v4 REST services, with tenant-local API Explorer access to OpenAPI v2, OpenAPI v3, OData service documents, deprecation status, layer, and IFS support class. Premium and integration projections are the preferred stable interfaces; standard projections often serve IFS Cloud Web, while activatable Entity Service APIs expose lower-level CRUD and state transitions when a supported business API does not cover the use case. IFS IAM uses OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, with client credentials preferred for unattended integrations. IFS Connect adds file, FTP, SFTP, mail, HTTP, REST, routing, transformation, queues, and application messages. Application and custom events can run workflows or external REST calls, and IFS Cloud Interoperability exchanges standardized CloudEvents with IFS.ai. Data migration and connectivity inbox or outbox paths support bulk and legacy interfaces. Remote deployments expose repeatable build, fetch, validation, installation, and delivery scripts, but these are lifecycle tools rather than a general business CLI. API class, release compatibility, projection coupling, tenant activation, grants, OAuth client setup, and remote versus managed deployment determine the practical surface. No official client SDK, first-party MCP, repeatable RPA result, or computer-use result was established.\n"
 }
}