QAD Interoperability

A typical manufacturing company relies on many enterprise applications for its day-to-day operations. The information that drives its business has to be shared – not only across these applications, but often with other businesses. Yet many companies rely on inefficient and costly approaches to moving their valuable data back and forth. Such approaches frequently involve extra cost and risk, and can hamper the evolution of an enterprise’s IT architecture. Some of the more common risks include:

• Manual Data Entry – Employees manually key data from one system into others – an expensive, slow and very error-prone process.
  
• Custom Developed Interfaces – Developers create interfaces for specific data integration requirements. These programs duplicate business logic and are tied to specific application releases, which creates a maintenance burden.
  
• Direct Database Updates – This process circumvents the business logic of the application, as data is written directly to the database.

This is a high risk strategy because there is no validation of the data and no updates to potentially related tables, which opens the door to further errors.

QAD Interoperability solutions provide a configuration toolset that enables enterprise and trading partner applications to seamlessly interoperate with QAD Enterprise Applications. This robust toolset leverages standard QAD business rules, simplifies the upgrade process and enables integration without coding for QAD Enterprise Applications. QAD Interoperability solutions include:

• QAD QXtend – Application-to-Application Integration (A2A) for near real-time integration
  
• QAD EDI eCommerce – Business-to-Business Integration (B2B) for data sharing between trading partners
  
• ACOM Document Management – Create, manage and deliver complex business documents according to your business needs
  
• Optio Output Management – Customize documents for distribution via print, email, fax and the Web
  
• Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite – A flexible integration platform that enables end-to-end EDI capability including communications, translation and business process transformation.

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