Your fast track to Innovation Excellence

Solutions available on premises or through cloud computing/SaaS

You have the choice between deploying the software on your server or using it through our Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model called IFT Direct.

IFT Direct enables any organization to benefit from the full power of IFT's solutions, without the costs and delay associated with installing and maintaining the software on its own infrastructure.

You select the functionality your organization needs to support its innovation management process, being idea management, stage-gate governance, project portfolio management, roadmapping or others. IFT host the software and database in a fully secured data center. Your people then log in to the solution via a web browser and internet connection, from anywhere, at any time and can start using our best practices automated processes to improve your innovation performance.

IFT solutions are 100% web based, performance tuned and require no other 3rd party software. It comes pre-configured with innovation best practices to cut-down on the implementation time and effort.

Cloud computing
The advantages of IFT Direct SaaS 

Lower IT costs: our SaaS model eliminates your IT costs to support the solution. There is no need to pay for hardware, database software, middleware, data center rack space, administrator training or in-house dedicated IT support.

Faster start-up: using our embedded best-practices, you can be up and running in das and getting results that make an immediate impact on innovation performance.

Expert service and support: IFT Direct includes our own expert technical support for your solution. We can take care of all the details regarding systems management, data back-ups, seamless upgrades and patches, performance tuning and troubleshooting.

Flexible pricing: with IFT Direct, you only pay for the access you need, as a low monthly subscription price per user. So you can start with only a few users on a given process that is your priority and expand over time as required to other business units or innovation processes modules.

Tailored configuration: IFT direct can be configured to meet your specific needs or unique business processes or to be integrated with your other systems. Our experienced professional services team offers advice and training on innovation best practices and customization services to rapidly implement your desired configuration changes.

SaaS team
IFT Direct reliability 

The most common concerns about SaaS solutions used to be their security robustness and performance. IFT Direct offers state-of-the art infrastructures and practices to guarantee the reliability of your solution:

 
Infrastucture 

100% network Up-Time

24x7x365 maintenance & support

Daily and weekly data back-up and retention

Redundant fail over

INetU's SSAE 16 Type II & ISAE 3402 Compliant and PCI-Certified Network

EU Safe Harbor Certified

Managed Firewall

Microsoft SQL Server database tier

Dedicated or shared hardware

SaaS Infrastructure
Application 

Intel Application Server Tier

Https secure connection 128-bit encryption SSL certificates

Load balanced environment

Basic and advanced authentication Management (LDAPS/SSO)

Saas Secured Infrastructure