Hi all,
We're on IFS Cloud (managed SaaS, hosted by IFS, 25R2) and we're evaluating enabling Analysis Models (Tabular) with self-hosted BI infrastructure. We've been working through the technical docs but, before committing, we'd love to hear from people who've actually been through it.
Docs we've been looking at:
- Scenario 3 (BI infra in Azure, customer-managed): https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/25r1/050_reporting/010_analytics/010_analysis_models/000_am_tabular/000_biinfrasetup/010_infra_setup_azure/
- Scenario 2 (Azure, IFS Cloud Remote): https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/25r1/050_reporting/010_analytics/010_analysis_models/000_am_tabular/000_biinfrasetup/009_infra_setup_azure_2/
- Scenario 6 (on-prem): https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/25r1/050_reporting/010_analytics/010_analysis_models/000_am_tabular/000_biinfrasetup/020_infra_setup_onprem/
A few questions for anyone who has deployed this in production — either managed service (IFS-hosted + Azure BI) or on-premise:
- Did you stand up the full stack (Azure SQL DW + Data Factory + SSIS-IR + Azure Analysis Services), or did you manage to simplify any part of it? Anything you'd skip in hindsight?
- Upgrade maintenance — how much effort is it to keep the models/packages working across IFS Cloud releases? Are the models/packages of IFS working smoothly or did you have to maintain them somehow ?
- Did anyone consider (or actually use) their own ETL against IFS data instead of the packaged SSIS flow, and how did that go support-wise?
Any lessons learned, gotchas, or rough timelines would be hugely appreciated. Happy to share back what we end up doing.
Thanks!
