LU-aware ifs applications cloud archive built for aerospace, defence, energy and construction. Every Logical Unit, every Custom Field, every IFS Document Management attachment preserved as searchable immutable evidence. FAA 14 CFR, ITAR, OSHA PSM, NRC 10 CFR, SOX, GDPR retention.
An idle IFS instance is the most expensive read-only database on Earth. The cloud archive replaces it for a fraction of the cost, with stronger compliance posture and a better user experience.
After migration to Oracle Fusion (or SAP S/4, IFS Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics — the destination doesn't matter), most enterprises keep IFS Applications running for years 'just in case' — for audit, for the occasional finance lookup, for MRO history retrieval, for the FAA inspection three years away. That decision costs real money: IFS licenses, Oracle DB licenses, infrastructure, DBAs, security patching, periodic disaster-recovery testing, an ever-shrinking pool of PL/SQL specialists who can still read the system. Six- and seven-figure annual run rates are typical, with the cost climbing as IFS Applications 7.5/8/9 push further past their mainstream support windows.
The ifs applications cloud archive replaces all of it. Every LU is extracted, schema-preserved, business-semantically indexed and parked in cloud storage with KMS encryption, WORM immutability where regulators require, and a self-serve query layer that any finance clerk, MRO engineer, internal auditor or external regulator can use without IFS expertise. The live IFS instance can be confidently decommissioned, the licenses can be terminated, the infrastructure can be reclaimed — and the historical record is stronger than it was before, because it now lives on patched modern infrastructure with explicit retention rules and a signed audit log of every access.
Syntra ETL has run this pattern for aerospace MRO operators retiring 30 years of fleet history, oil & gas operators preserving OSHA PSM process-safety records for the life of every chemical plant, construction firms keeping completed-capital-project records for warranty and dispute resolution, and government IFS users carrying retention obligations measured in decades.
Everything with retention value, in a form your users can actually use.
Full GL, AP, AR, FA, Cash and Tax Ledger history — typically 7–10 years for active query plus deeper archive for SOX-mandated retention. Drillable from balance to journal to source LU to document.
Asset hierarchy with full lifecycle, work-order history with operations and material lines, maintenance plans, configuration management, mechanic sign-offs. Life-of-aircraft retention for aerospace fleets.
Complete project structure (project → sub-project → activity → milestone), commitments, actuals, forecasts, deliverable acceptance, percentage-of-completion history — preserved for warranty and dispute periods.
IFS Document Management attachments (drawings, specs, certificates, sign-off records, contracts) streamed with hash signatures and indexed by LU+key for FAA/ITAR/OSHA evidence retrieval.
Custom Fields, Custom Events, PL/SQL package documentation captured so the business meaning IFS attached to data survives the decommissioning of the live system.
POs, suppliers, items, BOMs, routings, shop orders, lot/serial — preserved as immutable history for warranty, recall and traceability use cases common in aerospace and process industries.
From kickoff to live archive with IFS decommissioned, typically 16–24 weeks depending on history depth.
LU footprint inventoried, history-volume estimated per LU, regulatory retention rules mapped (FAA, ITAR, OSHA PSM, NRC, SOX, GDPR), per-domain retention policy designed and signed off by compliance leadership.
IFS Oracle DB extracted LU-by-LU with LU-aware joins; IFS Connect, IFS Solution Manager metadata and IFS Document Management archive captured. Output staged to cloud object storage with hash-signed manifests per partition.
LU-aware archive schema instantiated, structured data and documents loaded, business-semantic search index built (free-text, structured-field, document-content search), role-based access controls configured, retention rules applied.
Archive reconciled to source IFS for every LU (record counts, sum totals, hash totals), self-serve query UI UAT with finance, MRO, project and audit user groups, sign-off pack issued.
IFS Applications moves to read-only mode, final delta captured and loaded, archive declared go-live, IFS Applications licenses terminated, infrastructure decommissioned, SOC 2 audit log live.
What the archive looks like once it's running production for years.
Encryption at rest with customer-managed keys (AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP KMS). TLS 1.3 in transit. SOC 2 Type II controls across the platform.
Write-once-read-many storage tier for regulator-required retention (FAA, ITAR, NRC). Even an admin cannot alter or delete records during the retention window.
SSO via SAML 2.0 or OIDC, fine-grained RBAC down to LU level. AP clerks see AP archive, MRO engineers see EAM archive, audit sees everything read-only.
Every read, every search, every export captured with user identity, timestamp, query and result hash. Logs ship to SIEM via standard syslog or CloudTrail integration.
One record can satisfy SOX 7yr, FAA life-of-aircraft, ITAR 5yr and OSHA PSM simultaneously — no duplication, no reconciliation issues.
GDPR erasure honored at field level so personal data is cryptographically redacted while the surrounding business record survives for retention compliance.
An ifs applications cloud archive is a managed cloud service that holds the complete read-only history of an IFS Applications tenant — every Logical Unit, every transaction, every Custom Field, every IFS Document Management attachment — in a searchable, immutable form that survives the decommissioning of the live IFS Applications instance. Syntra ETL's cloud archive is purpose-built for IFS: LU-aware schema so business semantics are preserved (not just raw Oracle tables), Custom Field metadata carried through, IFS document archive with hash-signed retrieval, and self-serve historical reporting for finance, MRO ops, audit and regulators. Used by aerospace, defence, energy, oil & gas and construction enterprises decommissioning IFS Applications 7.5, 8, 9 or 10 after migration to Fusion, SAP S/4, IFS Cloud or another platform.
Three reasons drive every ifs applications cloud archive project. Cost: an unused IFS Applications instance still costs hundreds of thousands per year in licenses, support, infrastructure, DBA effort and security patching — money that vanishes the moment IFS goes read-only and the archive takes over. Risk: aging IFS 7.5/8/9 instances accumulate security vulnerabilities and depend on increasingly rare PL/SQL skills; the cloud archive is patch-managed and runs on modern infrastructure. Compliance: FAA 14 CFR Part 121.380, ITAR/DFARS, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119 PSM, NRC 10 CFR 50, SOX and GDPR all impose multi-year (or life-of-asset) retention obligations that the archive satisfies more cheaply and more durably than the live system ever could.
Everything that has retention value. Structured data from every active LU: Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA, Cash, Tax), Project Management (projects, deliverables, commitments, actuals), Manufacturing (shop orders, BOMs, routings), Supply Chain (POs, inventory, lot/serial), EAM/MRO (assets, work orders, maintenance plans, configuration management), Service Management, HCM. Documents from IFS Document Management: drawings, specifications, certificates, MRO sign-off records, contracts, supporting evidence — streamed with hash signatures and indexed by LU+key. Metadata from IFS Solution Manager: Custom Events, Custom Fields, PL/SQL package documentation, Background Job definitions — captured so future auditors can reconstruct what the live system did and why.
Retention is configured per data domain to match your regulatory and business obligations. Typical patterns: SOX-driven financial retention at 7 years; ITAR/DFARS export-controlled technical data at 5 years post-shipment; FAA 14 CFR Part 121.380 maintenance records at life-of-aircraft + 5 years (commonly 30+ years total); OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119 PSM process safety information for the life of the process; NRC 10 CFR 50 nuclear plant records at decades-scale retention; GDPR personal-data retention per your privacy policy with right-to-erasure honored at field level. Retention rules are versioned, signed and audit-logged. The ifs applications cloud archive can satisfy multiple overlapping retention requirements on the same record without duplication.
Different. A backup is a point-in-time snapshot intended for restore to a live system; it preserves bit-level state but not business meaning, requires the live IFS Applications software to be readable, and offers no end-user query interface. The ifs applications cloud archive is the opposite: business-semantically indexed (LU-aware), independent of the live IFS software (queryable forever after decommissioning), and built for end-user self-serve via a web UI plus REST API. A backup answers 'can we restore this database?' — a cloud archive answers 'what was on PO-12345 and who approved it, three years from now, without spinning up IFS?'.
Yes — that's the primary value. The cloud archive includes a self-serve historical reporting layer: web UI for ad-hoc queries (GL drill-down, AP voucher lookup, work-order history, asset lifecycle, project actuals by activity), saved reports for common audit and operational requests, BI Publisher-style pixel-perfect output for statutory and customer-facing documents, and a REST API for programmatic access from downstream systems. Finance can pull a 12-year-old supplier statement, MRO engineers can retrieve a 25-year-old work-order with attached sign-off certificates, internal audit can run SOX walkthroughs, FAA inspectors can request life-of-aircraft evidence — all without IFS Applications being switched on.
Multi-layer. At rest: KMS-managed encryption (AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault or GCP KMS) with customer-managed keys available. In transit: TLS 1.3. Access: SSO via SAML 2.0 or OIDC, with fine-grained role-based access control down to the LU level (e.g. AP clerks see AP archive, MRO engineers see EAM archive, internal audit sees everything read-only). Immutability: WORM storage tier where regulator-required (FAA, ITAR, NRC) so even an admin cannot alter or delete records during the retention window. Audit logging: every read, every search, every export captured with user identity, timestamp, query and result hash — logs ship to SIEM. The whole stack carries SOC 2 Type II and is ITAR-ready for export-controlled deployments.
GDPR right-to-erasure has to coexist with FAA, ITAR, OSHA PSM, SOX and other multi-decade retention obligations — which conflict at the field level. Syntra ETL's ifs applications cloud archive handles this with field-level redaction: when a verified GDPR erasure request lands, personal data fields (employee names, contact details, personally identifying information embedded in documents) are cryptographically redacted in-place, while the surrounding business record (the work-order, the financial transaction, the asset history) survives intact to satisfy the conflicting retention requirement. The redaction is signed, timestamped and audit-logged so future auditors can prove the GDPR request was honored without compromising the regulator-required evidence chain.
30-minute call. Walk through your IFS modules, history depth, regulatory profile and decommissioning target date — leave with a sized cloud archive proposal and timeline.