Innovating rail infrastructure

The rail industry has a complex composition, made up of asset owners who own the infrastructure, including railway tracks, signals, tunnels, bridges, crossings, and stations. Transport operators own or hire the carriages and provide travel services to consumers, while construction and engineering contractors build and maintain the infrastructure and trains. Alternatively, companies can be a mix of all three.

As a result of this complex composition, most companies operating in the industry tend to have heavily customized business system architecture built on a financial package with asset management capabilities. This is then supplemented by additional bolt-on software systems, spreadsheets, and project management tools. However, this type of architecture has many flaws, usually bolted together by disjointed APIs and requiring several specialists to manage each platform. It doesn’t provide true operational transparency.

IFS Cloud can offer your company a single, transparent solution that allows you to operate from one version of the truth. This enables you to gain total control of your operations, continue your transformation journey, and move towards a digital approach.

The time to invest in an integrated business system architecture is now. To learn more about how IFS can help you differentiate your business, download this executive summary.