Founded in Sweden, IFS (Industrial and Financial Systems) provides cloud ERP software to complex operations and asset-intensive industries like manufacturing, engineering and construction, aerospace and defense, and energy and utilities. With more than 7,000 employees, their products are used by over 10,000 customers across 80 countries (https://www.ifs.com/).
As is typical with software platform providers, IFS developed a services partner network to assist with implementing and maintaining its solutions. The company has worldwide exposure, and its consulting services partner ecosystem reflects this.
IFS Regional Services Partner Distribution
After cleaning up the data, we found that IFS has approximately 100 services partners spread across different regions. The breakdown of these partners by region is presented below:
Linked to IFS’ origins, half of the company’s consulting partners are headquartered in Europe. Global SIs are IFS partners and this drives the high level of headcount seen with few large players.
IFS Services Partner Distribution by Size
The distribution of consulting partners by size is as follows:
Half of IFS services partners have fewer than 50 employees, and 3/4ths of partners have fewer than 500 team members, showing a high level of fragmentation in this space.
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