Monday, June 22, 2026
Innovation + Technology

Innovation + Technology

purchasing, procurement, integrated supplier management, supplier management

An Introduction to QAD’s Purchasing Capabilities

Every company desires to make their purchasing process more efficient. For those individuals that have been involved with procurement, we know that this is often a lofty goal as days can...
world wide web, WWW, manufacturing, disruption

How the World Wide Web Disrupted Manufacturing

Disruptive technologies have become the standard in manufacturing, so much so that it’s easy to forget the unprecedented rate of change we’ve all become accustomed to, and that it all began...
EQMS, EQMS 2022, Quality Management System, Quality Management

Introducing QAD EQMS 2022

QAD is proud to announce the release of the 2022 version of QAD EQMS, our Enterprise Quality Management System. In this release we address the workforce shortages and absenteeism caused by...
innovation, invention, commercialization, SaaS

Innovation – “the Commercialization of an Invention”

Hopefully by now, as a manufacturing enterprise or business serving the global supply chain, you are into SaaS up to your knees. You have more flexibility, you are building capabilities in...
what is OEE, overall equipment effectiveness, OEE

What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness?

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is both a benchmark and a baseline that’s valuable for manufacturers to know when it comes to measuring productivity. Below are the key benefits of this metric,...
Adaptive ERP, 2022 Release, Product Launch

Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2022

QAD is excited to announce the general availability of QAD Adaptive ERP 2022, the latest version of QAD’s next generation ERP solution that includes the Adaptive User Experience (UX) and the QAD Enterprise...
world backup day, data backup, data security

How Secure is Your Data on World Backup Day?

March 31st is annual World Backup Day, a date chosen to keep people from becoming an April Fool the following day with lost files and data. Jokingly created in 2011 by...
most powerful ERP, CIO Magazine, ERP, Cloud, ERP vendors

QAD Named Top 10 Most Powerful ERP Vendor

It’s time to celebrate! CIO Magazine recently named QAD one of the 10 most powerful ERP vendors on the market today (hey, we’re not surprised!). We’re honored and excited – and...
Growing need for APIs, APIs, API architecture, SaaS, Cloud solutions

SaaS, In-House and the Growing Need for APIs

In the olden days—say five to 10 years ago, enterprise business systems ran in-house. Although they might use an outside service to do it, if a company needed multiple solutions, they...
SaaS, SaaS diffusion, business capabilities

SaaS Diffusion and the Improvement of Business Capabilities

Have you jumped into the deep end of SaaS yet? Maybe you’re saying, I’m in up to my ankles now, that’s far enough, I’ll get the agility benefits we talked about...