{"id":7316,"date":"2019-01-10T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-prod.qad.com\/blog\/?p=7316"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:57:50","slug":"qad-enterprise-platform-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/qad-enterprise-platform-hackathon","title":{"rendered":"QAD Enterprise Platform Hackathon Captures Partners\u2019 Imaginations"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7320″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]QAD hosted its first QAD Enterprise Platform hackathon at the QAD Teamwork event in Budapest, November 5 – 8, 2018. The objective of the hackathon was to introduce the development capabilities of the <\/span>QAD Enterprise Platform<\/span><\/a> to a number of attending partners in a hands-on fashion, including training and the actual building of an app.<\/span>
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The hackathon included one day of QAD Enterprise Platform training. Then, partners formed 10 teams with each team consisting of three or four developers. Each team had one day to define and create an app. The teams presented their apps, and a winner was selected by a group of QAD judges, including Bill Keese, senior vice president, research & development, Tony Winter, chief technology officer, Carl Pyckhout, director of software engineering, Stefan Brands, senior software engineer, and Don Springer, R&D release foundation product manager. The app scoring was based on the business case for the app, best use of QAD Enterprise Platform capabilities, completeness of the app and the quality of development.<\/span><\/p>\n

and the Winner is…<\/span><\/h2>\n

Congratulations to the winning team from partner ISYS-ON!<\/span>\u00a0Ferenc M\u00e9sz\u00e1ros, team leader of product development from ISYS-ON Information Consulting Ltd., describing the QAD Enterprise Platform said, \u201cIt is very easy to develop on the platform. End users can create and develop extensions on their own in only a few hours. They can perform development tasks with only a few clicks, like creating new data tables, loading initial data, generating new maintenance forms with configurable screens, browses and adding KPIs, just to name a few of the most important features.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participants at the QAD Teamwork Hackathon were quite impressed with the ease of use and intuitive functionality of the QAD Enterprise Platform. Vaclav Macha, consultant\/lead programmer with Minerva \u010cesk\u00e1 Republika, a.s. said, \u201cWhat came as the greatest surprise was the flexible, swift and straightforward development approach; where from imagination to realization, only one day was required to build and deploy working, real-life usable applications.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Ron Racine, senior technical consultant with Strategic Information Group remarked, \u201cThe QAD Enterprise Platform is truly a game changer for both customers and partners. This was clearly shown during the hackathon where we had minimal training and a very short development window, yet the teams created surprisingly useful and full-featured applications that blended seamlessly with the other QAD functions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Check out ISYS-ON’s full presentation below.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]