Technology Architecture
QAD’s strategy is to choose technology that offers the power to build the best possible solutions for our target markets, and deliver that functionality at the lowest possible cost of ownership for our customers. We strongly believe that within the technology choices we make, we have to give our customers the freedom to choose deployment platforms that best fit their corporate strategies with respect to operating systems, choice of databases, and interoperability and connectivity architectures.
The QAD Open Technology strategy allows organizations to be responsive in how they deploy, optimize, integrate and extend their core processes while safeguarding integrity, security and control.
- Flexibly adapt to new or changing business conditions and processes
- Evolve information systems easily and painlessly as business conditions and functional requirements change
- Accommodate future change while minimizing the cost of ownership
QAD delivers a technology architecture where the client interface and presentation of QAD application data are seamlessly blended and extended to suit end-user requirements without redesigning or reengineering the underlying business logic. The goal of allowing an implementation to be adjusted and tuned for the best possible user experience – be it to the organization, role or specific end user needs – is core to QAD’s usability strategy.
Central to the Open Technology strategy is the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model. This model exposes business functionality to an appropriate degree of granularity to interoperate with any technology that can communicate with the many technical implementations that we support.
These integration capabilities allow other systems to pass data into QAD Enterprise Applications or execute QAD functionality, but also to alert QAD and other systems, through extensive event publishing capabilities, on changing business conditions inside the QAD application suite. This makes for seamless integration of QAD Enterprise Applications in a process that transcends other applications and organizational boundaries, such as the supply chain.
