Delivery installation, off your team's calendar.

LifeInstaller schedules and runs IFS Cloud delivery installs — unattended, every environment, every time — for the deployments IFS's own tooling doesn't cover.

Built for Partner Hosted, Customer Managed, and On-Premises environments — anywhere IFS's own Environment Studio doesn't reach.
25.2.8 installed 5.22.0 next up 5.23.0 queued PROD EXL-CLD-PRD DB backup required Scheduled 02:00 UTC Evergreen UAT EXL-CLD-UAT No backup required Scheduled 21:00 UTC Evergreen CFG EXL-CLD-CFG Installing… Started 20:04 UTC In progress One delivery. Three environments. Zero people watching a progress bar.

IFS Cloud is hosted four different ways. Only one of them has tooling for this.

Environment Studio, IFS's own delivery installation tool, only runs on IFS Managed Cloud. Everywhere else, the process is still manual.

Served by IFS

IFS Managed Cloud

Environment Studio already automates delivery installation here.

LifeInstaller

Partner Hosted

A hosting partner runs the infrastructure. This is where LifeInstaller was built to work.

LifeInstaller

Customer Managed

The customer's own IT team hosts and maintains the environment.

LifeInstaller

On-Premises

Infrastructure lives on the customer's own site, fully self-managed.

These environments never got the tooling that made evergreen possible.

IFS built the evergreen model around frequent, low-risk updates. Outside IFS Managed Cloud, every one of those updates is still a manual job: someone finds the delivery, downloads it, places the files correctly, runs the installer, and waits.

That's fine once. It's a real cost repeated across every customer, every environment, every year.

  • 01 Download the delivery from Build Studio by hand
  • 02 Extract it, place it in the right folder structure
  • 03 Run the installer, stay present for ~2 hours
  • 04 Repeat separately for Prod, UAT, and CFG
  • 05 Repeat again for the next delivery, and the next

The actual cost, in hours.

A typical customer takes 10 deliveries a year — release updates, service updates, CRIM installs — across 3 environments. That's the real workload behind "keeping customers current."

10
deliveries / year
×
3
environments
=
30
installs / year
×
2h
per install
60
hours of execution time, per customer, per year — before scheduling, file handling, or watching it finish.
600 hrs
across 10 customers
1,200 hrs
across 20 customers
1,500+ hrs
across 50 customers

What actually happens

Four steps, and only one of them ever needs a person.

1

Schedule the delivery

Pick the environment and delivery; LifeInstaller shows only what's actually eligible to install next.

2

Backup runs first

On production, a database backup is required and verified before anything else proceeds.

3

Installer runs unattended

An agent on the management server downloads, extracts, and runs the install — day or night.

4

Logged and verified

Full install logs land in the portal automatically, with a record of every activity.

One tool, benefiting both sides of the relationship.

Hosting partners get their time back. Customers get environments that are actually kept current — which was always the point of evergreen.

For your team

  • Installs run overnight, not during billable hours
  • No senior consultant tied up watching a progress bar
  • One backlog covers every customer, not one script per customer
  • A clear activity record for every install, for QA and reporting

For your customers

  • Environments stay current with less coordination overhead
  • A required backup step before every production install
  • Fewer manual steps means fewer places for mistakes
  • Visibility into what was installed, when, and by whom

Evergreen was never the hard part. Installing it was.

IFS designed Cloud around continuous, incremental updates instead of risky annual upgrades. LifeInstaller is the piece of tooling Partner Hosted, Customer Managed, and On-Premises environments were missing to make that actually practical — not just a philosophy customers hear about, but something that happens automatically, on schedule, every time.

Let's talk about your customer book.

Tell us how many customers and environments you manage, and we'll show you what LifeInstaller looks like for your team specifically.

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