Sponsors at Explore

Eagle has been a strategic partner of QAD since 1992 and serves the QAD community exclusively. Eagle's automated data collection (ADC) solution, RF Express™ for QAD Enterprise Applications, leverages each customer's QAD investment with real-time access to fault-proof information across a site or across the world.

Over 800 QAD customers around the world have chosen Eagle to meet all of their bar coding, RFID and automated data collection needs. These are just a few of the reasons:

Fit with QAD

• Seamless integration with QAD, true real-time data validation, Progress based solution with an architecture that is identical to QAD's
• Supports both On Premise and On Demand deployments

Value

• Fault-proof data accuracy, real-time access to information, global footprint, vertical expertise

A 21st Century Solution

• A variety of client interfaces, including those to Android devices and Apple's iPad®, iPhone® and iPod Touch®, support a wide variety of handheld scanners and shop floor terminals
• Eagle’s .NET interface provides a user experience consistent with QAD's– without batch or web service limitations
• Eagle’s data collection solution provides backup connectivity options when needed
• Site-specific or user-specific requirements are available in standard product: thousands of easily changed standard configurable options make it possible to tailor transactions to individual site requirements

Sales, support, Project Management, complete project delivery and execution are available worldwide.

Progress Software has long provided QAD with the foundation for a scalable and reliable platform. Deployed in over 2,500 QAD customers and 300,000 users worldwide, Progress OpenEdge offers you the lowest total cost of ownership. QAD users benefit because Progress is easy to deploy, manage, and administer, and our tools give you the flexibility to easily extend the application. Come visit us at the lounge of the expo center, and find out why over 5 Million users worldwide have come to rely on Progress OpenEdge to run their mission critical applications.

QAD Alliance Partner since 1998, Radley’s technology platform has not remained in the nineties but is paralleling QAD’s key technology directions into the future. Using QXtend for QAD-supported transaction updating, Radley’s .NET automated data collection solution can do what is not even possible with legacy terminal emulation technology; Radley’s client/server architecture can work in off-line mode if network connectivity is lost; validates directly against the QAD database so maintaining duplicate data is unnecessary. Radley's Portable Client provides flexible configuration without customization to meet the unique requirements of each QAD installation. Increase efficiency by consolidating multiple QAD transactions into just a few scans. Radley’s solution suite includes modules for Time and Attendance & Labor Tracking captures time, labor and material; Label License Plating and Product Traceability modules support diverse requirements, labeling tools support internal or supplier labeling; also a graphical Productivity Monitor provides real-time visibility to the shop floor.

As a QAD Alliance partner and Global Consulting Partner of the Year, BravePoint has been helping QAD customers successfully implement, upgrade, and enhance QAD’s applications since 1990. BravePoint can easily provide the resources you need to satisfy your customers and improve your bottom line. Our consultants are business people who understand technology and we successfully service all versions and platforms of QAD.

BravePoint has over 100 QAD customers using our ProMonitor, ProD&L, Pro2SQL, and Automation/Deletion Utilities, helping them simplify, automate, and maintain their entire QAD investment at peak return and performance. With reference resources like the QAD and Progress books by Dan Foreman and Scott Dulecki, our online video training library, and classroom training on-site or at your desktop, BravePoint makes it easy to run your business with QAD. Go to BravePoint.com/qad to learn more about BravePoint and how we can make you and your company more productive.

Strategic Information Group (Strategic) is a QAD channel, services and technology partner. Strategic provides QAD consulting services and software validation products to companies looking to better leverage their investment in QAD. With more than 20 years of experience successfully delivering QAD implementations, upgrades, training and technical services, Strategic serves all manufacturing markets and company sizes from start-ups to multinationals.

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way customers live and work.

HP offers a complete technology product portfolio. They provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. HP offers consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps match the right products, services and solutions to customers' specific needs.

PICS is a QAD Business Consulting and Software Development company providing innovative solutions to QAD customers since 1995. In addition to a full line of QAD consulting and technical services, PICS also offers a broad range of QAD complementary software including a Document and Process Management software solution called DocLib.

With DocLib, QAD Customers can:

• Eliminate the labor costs associated with a manual filing process by storing documents in a Secured DocLib Database
• Reclaim expensive office space and reduce the cost of off-site storage facilities
• Achieve regulatory compliance with e-signature, document check-in, check-out and a complete audit trail history.
• Replace paper based systems with structured, workflow processes that are integrated with email
• Generate multiple QAD transactions from a single scanned document

DocLib is seamlessly integrated with QAD’s Enterprise Applications and provides the QAD community with an opportunity to further leverage their investment in QAD to generate tangible and measurable cost savings.

Logan Consulting with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, has been active in the QAD community since 1993 making it one of the oldest and most experienced QAD Service Alliance Partners. Seasoned Logan Consultants will help your company get the most out of your QAD investment. Along with our proven methodology for implementations and upgrades, our business management consultants will provide relevant advice to help you develop lean streamlined business processes. In today’s economic climate, companies are faced with requirements to eliminate waste, increase efficiency and reduce costs. Among these issues are the following:

• Concern that your implementation does not support your current business model.
• Unreliable MRP data, forecasts or inventory levels often caused by offline spreadsheet and other systems along with employee turnover.
• Unable to get real-time management reporting that is so vital in pinpointing where the waste and excess cost impact your business.
• Systems that are running too slow or require too much administration, leading to unnecessary overhead, both in terms of employees and hardware infrastructure.
• We help clients address these issues and many others through implementations, business process reengineering, training, assessments, development and database tuning.

Built on QAD® applications, RCM Technologies’ Enterprise QAD Solutions unit provides high quality, cost-effective business solutions and services that enable customers to meet and exceed their objectives. QAD® applications manage the core business processes of your enterprise, with industry–specific design functionality. As an authorized Sales and Services Channel Partner of QAD,® RCM leverages the expertise of their staff and proven methodologies to assist clients in implementing QAD® applications.

For almost two decades, RCM has been recognized as a leader in providing QAD® applications for business solutions. By understanding industry trends, challenges, and issues, RCM extends the capability of QAD® Enterprise Applications and maximizes a client’s investment.

BizNet Software, Inc. is a market leader for Excel® in-memory reporting and business intelligence. BizNet’s award-winning Excel Business Information Suite is the most innovative and intuitive reporting solution on the market, creating a user-friendly, drag & drop environment with live, real-time access to the most accurate and current data. Its patent-pending ‘In Memory Analytics’ provides a supreme level of performance not seen with other reporting tools and allows the user to take advantage of dynamic, multi-dimensional drill downs based on what they are exploring. Founded in 1996 to take the mystery out of databases, BizNet focuses on Microsoft Excel® reporting solutions guided by financial and business professionals with a real-world understanding of corporate financial, operational, and technical requirements. With over 6,000 users and 200 partners, BizNet Software achieved record sales in 2011 with expansions in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. For more information, please call 888-803-5227 or visit www.biznetsoftware.com.

Preactor International is a world leader in production planning and scheduling software used by a wide range of businesses. Frequently integrated with ERP, MES and Supply Chain Management solutions, Preactor’s breakthrough technology is used by more than 2,500 small, medium and large multinational companies located in 65 countries.

The current trends in manufacturing are towards lowering inventory levels to reduce costs yet still be able to respond to shorter lead times to satisfy customer demand.

‘Preactor for QAD’ is aimed specifically at QAD’s target markets and includes Preactor 400 APS and a two-way integration with QAD. ‘Preactor for QAD’ will help existing and future users of QAD where they need detailed scheduling and optimised sequencing in their plants. This empowers the planner. It automatically generates optimized schedules for production based on business objectives and the real constraints of the production process and provides unparalleled visibility on what will happen in the future – a crystal ball for the plant.

More than 100 QAD customers use Preactor and there are many references and cases studies showing the benefits and ROI.

LiveSource is a cloud-based eSourcing tool that combines the power of advanced supplier management with the global reach of the world's largest manufacturing marketplace — MFG.com. LiveSource helps companies discover, collaborate and work with qualified global suppliers, resulting in smarter spending, reduced product costs, shorter delivery times, and a more flexible supply chain, all without adding IT infrastructure costs.

Optimized for use with all versions of QAD, Minisoft eFORMz features powerful forms generation, print management and document archiving functionality all in a single software solution. eFORMz converts standard QAD print output into attractive, functional forms and reports that can be distributed via print, fax, and email. Populate forms directly from QAD print streams or extract data directly from Progress, SQL, MySQL or Oracle databases.

Use eFORMz to produce packing lists, 1D, 2D, QR barcodes, purchase orders, invoices, checks, shipping labels, bills of lading and more.

eFORMz works with all versions of QAD running on Windows, Linux, HP/UX or AIX.

Avalara is the leading provider of web-hosted sales and use tax management services. Avalara provides end-to-end tax management solutions to businesses of all sizes and transform the sales, use and VAT tax process for customers with cost-effective state-of-the-art solutions. With its innovative, patented technology, Avalara helps companies from every industry eliminate the complexity of tax management by automating and providing accurate tax calculation, painless administration, effortless reporting and timely remittance.

The AvaTax cloud-based service keeps you current with up-to-date taxation statutes and tax rates so you never have to make a tax rate decision again.

Freedom Technologies has been a QAD Product Partner since 1998, offering QAD customers the ability to leverage their QAD investment while extending their manufacturing operations. Freedom’s Error Proof® is a premier flexible, scalable and robust Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution interfaced to QAD through QXtend. Error Proof® MES provides a collection of production input from automatic and human interface data collection devices, making this data available to QAD Enterprise Applications. Freedom Technologies’ Error Proof® software applications are designed for monitoring, managing and controlling production line operations plus ensuring the accuracy of the manufacturing and shipping procedures. Error Proof® can be implemented in various degrees; from uncomplicated PO Receipt, Transfers, WIP tracking, etc., to a QAD Enterprise Applications integrated solution throughout a manufacturing company. With Error Proof®, the solution selected today to meet simple data collection needs can grow and become more complex as a company’s requirements mature.

Unicorn HRO is a Payroll, HR and Benefits Services provider specializing in tailored solutions in support of clients’ business success. For growing businesses, Unicorn is an ideal partner to ensure that a company’s payroll needs are met, regulatory requirements are satisfied and software applications that enable HR departments to perform at their best. Unicorn can also provide insurance for both your company as well as your employees.

Trubiquity’s TRUedx EDI solution provides a highly secure, on-demand exchange for outsourcing all EDI-related tasks. Designed to meet industry-specific EDI requirements, it enables seamless integration to QAD’s eCommerce/ERP system. With built-in support for all common communication protocols and standards, it provides the ability to exchange data with both EDI and non-EDI enabled trading partners anywhere, anytime regardless of system configuration.

A QAD partner since 1996, ACOM has developed outstanding solutions especially for QAD users. ACOM’s solutions integrate with your existing QAD system to extend its capabilities; they dramatically improve your organization’s efficiency by automating your previously manual, paper-based processes...and significantly decrease the costs and errors associated with your paper documents and paper checks.

For over 30 years, ACOM’s solutions have automated the payment and document management processes for more than 4,000 organizations across all industries worldwide.

Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA) provides the broadest range of innovative technology solutions to give a “digital voice” to a company’s physical assets. Our extensive portfolio includes bar code, receipt, card, kiosk, and RFID printers and supplies, as well as real-time location solutions. Zebra’s enabling technologies extend visibility into company operations for more powerful business intelligence.

FACTIVITY Inc. has been a QAD Product Partner for over 10 years offering the first and only touch screen Progress based MES system allowing QAD users to leverage their existing investment. Our focus on factory floor productivity begins with and easy-to-install User Interface (IU) designed to improve factory floor productivity in a paperless real-time fashion. Our entire suite of software solutions integrates with QAD directly via Progress software or through CIM or QXtend. The floor workers can use RF bar code devices for inventory transactions such as receiving/shipping as well as PC workstations for WIP tracking. The system helps control both labor and material variances with or without lot control. Our Human Machine Interface (HMI) provides machine monitoring to improve asset utilization by automating the up/down time and machine counts and providing a Web View of OEE for executive awareness to factory floor effectiveness. Easy-to-use and scalable, your company can select a solution today to meet simple data collection needs and then expand in a pay-as-you-grow cost effective manner.

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, ViaWest provides a unique set of colocation, managed hosting solutions, and comprehensive services to mid-sized and enterprise level businesses. As a super-regional service provider ViaWest maintains 16 enterprise-class data centers. ViaWest currently serves thousands of customers nationwide including Frontier Airlines, The Denver Broncos, Chipotle, and Northrop Grumman. The company was also recently named 'Technology Company of the Year' 2008 by CSIA, and One of 'Colorado's Top 10 Companies to Work For'.

MPS Associates (MPS) is a Northeast US based professional services and software development organization dedicated to providing customer specific, value-added information system solutions. MPS’ staff is comprised of experienced, senior-level professionals with a history of successful project execution, on time and on budget.

MPS is proud to offer the following products and services to the QAD customer base:

• QAD application and technical services
• Preactor for QAD™
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• MFG-Validate™

Virtela Technology Services Incorporated is the world's largest independent managed network, security and cloud services company. Virtela offers an award-winning suite of services—including managed networks, security, application acceleration and proactive infrastructure management—to mid-market and Fortune 500 customers around the world. Virtela offers unparalleled geographic reach to more than 190 countries through its partnerships with more than 500 carriers.

Virtela is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with globally distributed Network Operations Centers in the U.S., India and the Philippines. For more information, please call +1 (720) 475-4000 or visit www.virtela.net.

Broom Street Software is an enterprise software solutions provider made of up highly experienced technical professionals. Their newest technology (Mobile Desk) include APPS for iPhone, iPad, Android and Web Portals to retrieve and update your QAD data anytime/anywhere. Their skills allow them to accelerate application development, construct solutions and provide implementations in a variety of markets for the QAD® system. They effectively assist their clients with the challenges relating to enterprise planning, customization, system installation, training, documentation and support. They deliver the results you need in many areas including resource planning, inventories, and shipping. They draw upon years of experience in discrete and repetitive manufacturing practices, distribution systems, inventory control methods, finance practices, and quality tracking/control systems. In addition to their full range of QAD services and products, they offer solutions for most IT infrastructure requirements.

After 18 years of QAD and IT Service and Support...they are still "Sweeping Away The Competition...".

QAD User Groups are exclusive gatherings of QAD's most innovative, creative users in a specific region. They provide easy access to QAD product, service and industry specialists. With up-to-the-minute information on QAD Enterprise Applications and QAD Global Service offerings, QAD User Group members gain an edge for their business that translates to return on investment (ROI). QAD currently has the following North American User Groups: West Coast (WeCUG), Southeast (SEUG), and Midwest (MWUG). QAD also has Europe, Middle East and Africa User Groups.

As a member of a QAD User Group, you can:

• Share information with your business and industry peers
• Leverage your direct connection to QAD Research and Development
• Drive ROI for your enterprise; add value to your team
• Network with the best and brightest in the QAD user community
• Build your business; build your career

Credit Card Integration (“CCI”) for QAD™, from ProStar Software, is QAD’s recommended solution for any company that needs to accept credit cards for customer payments integrated with the QAD applications. CCI seamlessly provides all the functionality, data elements, business logic and screen adaptations for the complete credit card cycle from Sales Orders through AR Cash Applications.

If your business accepts customer payments by credit card, your business must handle that sensitive data securely! CCI delivers all of its functions in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (“PCI-DSS” v2.0).

Now you can process credit card orders securely and efficiently for every version of QAD and all UIs, including CSS, and including use by customers in the On Demand environment.

See us at Explore in San Antonio and ask for a demo for Credit Card Integration for QAD. See for yourself how much you can improve your credit card processes to reduce your costs, improve your customer service and eliminate liability by complying with PCI-DSS.

Cforia Software delivers a comprehensive Lean Accounts Receivable Solution including Credit, Collections, Deductions, Auto Cash Application, Customer Self-Service and Interdepartmental Collaboration. Cforia specializes in seamless near real-time integrations across multiple QAD and other AR data sources for Shared Service Centers, Business Intelligence and Financial Reporting across all divisions and ERP systems.

Cforia will reduce DSO, increase productivity and cash flow by automating Accounts Receivable. This easy to use snap-on application leverages a rules and letter engine to drive extra and timely customer touches. Extensive new data points, KPI’s and short pay workflows allow for dirty/clean filtering of AR for root cause analysis, identifying credit risk and accurate cash forecast.

Cforia’s design enables quick implementations with minimal IT involvement. The ROI for a Cforia AR Automation project is typically three to six months.