EAM versus CMMS: What's Right for Your Company?
Part Three: Analysis of IFS and Intentia
Joe Strub and P.J. Jakovljevic - March 17, 2004

Additional Analysis of IFS and Intentia

Whether due to the same geographic origin or not, one can notice many similarities between Intentia (XSSE: INT B) and IFS AB (XSSE: IFS), in addition to a few differences. Having both been Swedish companies, both exude the domain expert knowledge within the industries of their focus, and both vendors have been congenial and disinclined to exaggerate their capabilities. On the down side, however, these traits are drawbacks in other more flamboyant, marketing-rich markets outside Scandinavia, particularly in the United States, where these vendors occasionally have been regarded as somewhat unexciting or reserved...