Good morning all,

We’ve recently had some questions come up over integration licensing, and some bizarre responses around purchasing an ‘Integration Adapter’ for EACH application integrated with?

Has anyone got an information around what an integration adapter is? Previously usage of IFS Integration would be done via IFSConnect, the PL/SQL Access Provider and more recently with the REST API functionality introduced with Aurena. 

Obviously usage of the ‘IFSCONNECT’ user account can introduce security risk (because why would you give a single user account access to perform various activities and then store that credential on a system you’re integrating with or an integration platform such as Boomi?).

To reduce this risk we have created user accounts for specific integrations with only access to the specific actions/companies/sites each deals with, even though this consumes a user license, the cost seems worth it. 

However the addition of an adapter license for each system integrated with seems ridiculous - when the integration functionality is built in to IFS and accounts exist for this purpose. What modern day application works this way?

Any information/experiences anyone can share would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Marcus