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IFS Cloud - Next-Generation Service Management Demystified (26R1)

  • May 20, 2026
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Alexander Heinze
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NGSM Demystified  describes changes and additional capabilities related to Service Management (NGSM) in IFS Cloud 26R1. People with experience in 25R2 should focus on chapters marked with 26R1☀️ and 26R1↗️.

Chapters with 🖋️ provide new or additional details for features that were already available in previous releases.

Features that rely on AI are marked with ✨.

IFS Cloud newcomers will also find explanations of some common platform capabilities.

 

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For the first time I had to zip the document as it exceeded the attachment size limit. 358 pages cover:

  • Terminology
  • Getting Started
  • IFS.ai Copilot 2.0 for Service
  • Request Management
  • Bundle Tasks
  • Request Contracts
  • Service Organizations, Access Groups, and Resources
  • Service Contractor Management
  • SLA Management
  • Service Catalog and Standard Tasks
  • Service Commercial Rules for Pricing and Costing
  • Recurring Services
  • Service Campaigns
  • Service Projects
  • Location data
  • Availability Patterns
  • Skills
  • Miscellaneous Resource Allocations
  • Product Structure
  • Service Object
  • Warranties
  • Knowledge Management
  • Structured Failure Management
  • Service Notes
  • Event Management
  • Portals
  • Service Execution Portal
  • Lobbies
  • Time Zone Management in NGSM
  • General IFS Cloud Capabilities
  • Object Properties
  • Integration APIs

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Demystified Trilogy, IFS Cloud - Scheduling demystified (26R1) and IFS Cloud - MWO Service demystified (26R1).