QAD

QAD
100 Innovation Place
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
(888) 641.4141
www.qad.com

History

Pam Lopker, who remains QAD’s President and Chairman today, originally formed QAD in 1979. In 1984 QAD launched its flagship product MFG/PRO. MFG/PRO was built using the Progress Software Corporation’s Fourth Generation Language (4GL) and relational database. In 2006 QAD launched its next generation user interface called .NET UI. In 2007 QAD renamed its core product suite from MFG/PRO to QAD Enterprise Applications. With the launch of QAD Enterprise Applications, QAD pioneered hybrid deployment, with the ability to deploy the application On Premise, On Appliance or On Demand.

Markets

QAD targets companies ranging in size from $50M to over $1B in revenues. QAD has extensive capabilities and support for companies with international operations.

They have also elected to focus on specific industries and targeting specific functionality for those businesses; these industries include Automotive, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, High Tech, Industrial Products and Life Sciences.

ERP Software Products

QAD Enterprise Applications is a scalable solution with its origins in the industrial and automotive industries, and a long track record in volume-based, batch-oriented industries. The solution can be used to run specific plants of large corporations, but there are also examples of global enterprises that run their complete business on QAD. Over 70% of QAD’s revenue comes from large multinational manufacturers, but this figure includes those accounts where QAD is used as a departmental or single-site solution.

QAD Enterprise Applications is offered on-premises and on-demand. Its Shared Services Domain Architecture allows the separation of physical instances from organizational structure (e.g., legal entities), offers a flexible mix between on-premises and on-demand instances, and helps to consolidate physical instances.

Technology

QAD Enterprise Applications allows customers to use the traditional character-based screen design in parallel with the new .NET-based graphical UI. This can ease change management and allows customers to postpone training to a later phase in an upgrade. The graphical UI can be used on versions as old as MFG/PRO eB2.1 (released in 2001) with SP4, which allows customers to first leverage the new UI while doing a full upgrade later in the life cycle.

Marketing Channels

With offices in 26 countries, QAD does most of its business direct and only uses channel partners in select markets. Fifty percent of its revenue in fiscal year 2009 was generated in the Americas, one-third in EMEA and the rest in Asia/Pacific. QAD mainly sells and services customers directly through its own resources, with the effort supplemented in some regions by third parties.

Midwest Office Location
QAD Central United States
1901 Butterfield Road
Suite 300
Downers Grove, IL 60515
USA

For other QAD office locations: www.qad.com/erp/Global-Offices