IFS Achieves 25% ARR Growth in Q1 2026 Financial Results
IFS announced its Q1 2026 results with a 25% YoY growth in ARR and 24% in cloud revenue. The growth highlights a shift in enterprise AI from decision support to autonomous operational execution across workflows and assets.
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Whether to utilize AI in industrial operations is no longer up for debate. The question being asked is who can operationalize AI at scale with industry-specific capabilities and an enterprise-grade platform. IFS's financial results clearly provide the answer.
April 22, 2026, London, UK – IFS, the leading provider of industrial AI software, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2026, reporting a strong start to the year with Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growing by 25%. The Q1 results reflect how organizational operations continue to change as AI scales from supporting decision-making to executing tasks across assets, workflows, and entire operations.
Q1 2026 Highlights
Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR): Up 25% year-over-year
Cloud Revenue: Up 24% year-over-year
Net Retention Rate (NRR): 114%
Recurring Revenue Ratio: 84% of total revenue
Growth in the quarter was driven by new customer acquisitions, solution expansion within the existing customer base, consistently high retention rates, and the expanding use of AI across business processes. Some of the billion-dollar enterprises that adopted IFS.ai in Q1 include Aramex, Coca-Cola, China Airlines, Drydocks World, First Solar, JVCKenwood, LATAM Airlines, Miele, and ShinMaywa Industries.
Creating Commercial Value through Enterprise-Wide AI Adoption
In Q1 as well, user companies continuously expanded the scope of IFS solutions across sites, assets, and business processes. Notably, the very nature of how companies operate is beginning to change. There is an ongoing shift from using AI for individual task support, as in the past, to more autonomous operations, allowing systems to handle planning, decision-making, and business execution with minimal human intervention, even in complex environments.
This change is particularly pronounced in the asset-intensive and service-driven industries that IFS focuses on. In these sectors, utilization, coordination, and agility are considered extremely crucial. Currently, AI is deeply embedded in the execution layer of mission-critical processes and operations, contributing to improved productivity, reduced inefficiencies, and the realization of rapid, consistent outcomes.
Mark Moffat, CEO of IFS, commented:
"There is a clear shift from AI supporting operations to actually executing them, and this is changing the way our user companies operate. Through targeted investments, strategic partnerships, and industry-specific capabilities that solve real-world challenges, we provide the agility to respond to the next wave of global growth. As our Q1 results demonstrate, IFS is the industrial platform that makes AI work in the real world, and its value is higher than ever."
Matthias Heiden, CFO of IFS, commented:
"We have achieved a solid start to 2026 in line with our strategic plan. ARR grew by 25%, and with new customer acquisitions, high retention rates, and continuous expansion within our existing customer base, the full-year outlook is positive. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, all regions contributed to growth, which reflects our customers' trust in IFS's innovations and the actual Return on Investment (RoI) they realize."
Platform Expansion in Q1
IFS continues to make strategic investments in its platform, expanding capabilities in the supply chain, logistics, and utilities sectors. This supports the realization of more autonomous and integrated operations.
IFS Softeon
Following the completion of the Softeon acquisition in March 2026, IFS enhanced its warehouse and supply chain execution capabilities, further improving the coordination between planning and real-time operations.
IFS.ai Logistics
Announced in March following the acquisition of 7Bridges, IFS.ai Logistics connects transportation planning, execution, and financial outcomes, allowing companies to manage complex logistics networks with greater precision and automation.
IFS.ai Operational Intelligence
Integrates asset and operational performance management into a single data foundation to detect failures before they occur. Following strong adoption in the energy sector, IFS is rolling this out to all industries, and demand is rapidly expanding.
These initiatives are against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions, glo
April 22, 2026, London, UK – IFS, the leading provider of industrial AI software, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2026, reporting a strong start to the year with Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growing by 25%. The Q1 results reflect how organizational operations continue to change as AI scales from supporting decision-making to executing tasks across assets, workflows, and entire operations.
Q1 2026 Highlights
Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR): Up 25% year-over-year
Cloud Revenue: Up 24% year-over-year
Net Retention Rate (NRR): 114%
Recurring Revenue Ratio: 84% of total revenue
Growth in the quarter was driven by new customer acquisitions, solution expansion within the existing customer base, consistently high retention rates, and the expanding use of AI across business processes. Some of the billion-dollar enterprises that adopted IFS.ai in Q1 include Aramex, Coca-Cola, China Airlines, Drydocks World, First Solar, JVCKenwood, LATAM Airlines, Miele, and ShinMaywa Industries.
Creating Commercial Value through Enterprise-Wide AI Adoption
In Q1 as well, user companies continuously expanded the scope of IFS solutions across sites, assets, and business processes. Notably, the very nature of how companies operate is beginning to change. There is an ongoing shift from using AI for individual task support, as in the past, to more autonomous operations, allowing systems to handle planning, decision-making, and business execution with minimal human intervention, even in complex environments.
This change is particularly pronounced in the asset-intensive and service-driven industries that IFS focuses on. In these sectors, utilization, coordination, and agility are considered extremely crucial. Currently, AI is deeply embedded in the execution layer of mission-critical processes and operations, contributing to improved productivity, reduced inefficiencies, and the realization of rapid, consistent outcomes.
Mark Moffat, CEO of IFS, commented:
"There is a clear shift from AI supporting operations to actually executing them, and this is changing the way our user companies operate. Through targeted investments, strategic partnerships, and industry-specific capabilities that solve real-world challenges, we provide the agility to respond to the next wave of global growth. As our Q1 results demonstrate, IFS is the industrial platform that makes AI work in the real world, and its value is higher than ever."
Matthias Heiden, CFO of IFS, commented:
"We have achieved a solid start to 2026 in line with our strategic plan. ARR grew by 25%, and with new customer acquisitions, high retention rates, and continuous expansion within our existing customer base, the full-year outlook is positive. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, all regions contributed to growth, which reflects our customers' trust in IFS's innovations and the actual Return on Investment (RoI) they realize."
Platform Expansion in Q1
IFS continues to make strategic investments in its platform, expanding capabilities in the supply chain, logistics, and utilities sectors. This supports the realization of more autonomous and integrated operations.
IFS Softeon
Following the completion of the Softeon acquisition in March 2026, IFS enhanced its warehouse and supply chain execution capabilities, further improving the coordination between planning and real-time operations.
IFS.ai Logistics
Announced in March following the acquisition of 7Bridges, IFS.ai Logistics connects transportation planning, execution, and financial outcomes, allowing companies to manage complex logistics networks with greater precision and automation.
IFS.ai Operational Intelligence
Integrates asset and operational performance management into a single data foundation to detect failures before they occur. Following strong adoption in the energy sector, IFS is rolling this out to all industries, and demand is rapidly expanding.
These initiatives are against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions, glo