QAD :: Performance Made Simple.

A world of rapid technological change is creating new demand for superior application integration that allows disparate business applications to work together, seamlessly. QAD leverages a wealth of current technology to greatly extend the capability of QAD Enterprise Applications to support the extended enterprise and insulate our customers from the often disruptive impact of changing technology.

Progress Software
1. Progress Software and QAD: The unique alliance between QAD and the Progress Software Company allows customers to take advantage of an advanced technology platform at a significantly lower cost of ownership. Progress’ OpenEdge Application Server technology and powerful Advanced Business Language provides the underpinning for flexible and productive software application development. Progress’ leading Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is leveraged to provide the message architecture that empowers and extends QAD’s Service Oriented Business application into a distributed model.
2. About Progress Software
3. The Total Economic Impact Of The Progress OpenEdge™ Platform Forrester Consulting
4. Visit the Progress website
HP
1. HP and QAD: Over the last decade, the QAD/HP alliance has proven itself to more than 50% of QAD’s worldwide customers. These companies rely on the on the synergy between QAD and HP to provide an integrated solution for supply chain management. As a result, QAD has become one of the HP’s top Global ERP Partners.
  
  At the heart of this alliance is an agreement to work jointly at all levels and across all functions, including new product development, marketing, sales and support. HP offers a complete family of HP 9000 systems, HP Integrity Servers and Intel Based NT systems to run from 8 to 1000 MFG/PRO users. HP also offers networking, storage, high availability and system management products and services for MFG/PRO users.
2. Learn more about the HP Integrity Servers
Supported Databases
1. QAD gives customers a choice of operating systems, relevant database platforms, desktop interfaces and other access methods to QAD applications for optimum efficiency of their computer systems. Currently supported databases include Oracle DB and the Progress OpenEdge DB. In addition, QAD recently announced future support for Microsoft SQL Server. Operating systems include all common flavors of Unix, Linux and the Microsoft Windows Server platforms.