Performance Made Enriched: Announcing QAD Enterprise Applications 2007.1

QAD continues to build applications that further its marketplace vision for the Perfect Lean Market - the ultimate lean, just-in-time, network of shared information and processes. The Perfect Lean Market is a collective goal among QAD customers, partners, employees and others. A large enabler of that vision is the on-demand capabilities of QAD solutions such as QAD Supply Visualization (SV) and QAD Transportation Management System (TMS), as well as the enriched capabilities of additional solutions in the incremental QAD Enterprise Applications 2007.1 product release.

QAD 2007.1 provides:

• Greater deployment flexibility with lesser initial capital investment
• Greater clarity into your business and performance metrics
• Greater visibility into your supply chain, shipping and transportation requirements
• Stronger integration and unity across the overall suite

The Value of QAD On Demand
QAD 2007.1 is deployable on demand, on premise and on appliance, providing customers with infrastructure, operations, integration and application management support alternatives. With QAD On Demand, customers are offered "deployment independence," that is, multiple options for implementing QAD Enterprise Applications, saving them both time and money.

QAD On Demand allows customers to realize significant value across their business in the following key areas:

• Reduced capital expenditure
• Pre-defined implementation and support costs
• Rapid implementation
• QAD 2007 solutions and process maps
• Access to experienced industry resources
• Proactive and monitored 24x7x365 support

QAD On Demand provides customers a faster time-to-benefit from selection of QAD Enterprise Applications through the go-live. Through pre-defined application and environment setups and common business practices, a customer can be up and running with their QAD 2007.1 environment more quickly and with less strain on internal resources. The added benefit is this method allows QAD customers' intellectual resources to remain focused on core business drivers instead of non-core business activities. And thirdly, QAD On Demand is delivered turnkey, with minimal initial capital investment, appealing to decision makers and resulting in higher return on investment.

Performance Made Enriched
QAD 2007.1 showcases the evolution of five key QAD solutions including the user friendly QAD .NET User Interface (.NET UI) and the on-demand capabilities of QAD Supply Visualization (SV) and QAD Transportation Management System (TMS). Highlights of the incremental QAD 2007.1 release are as follows:

• QAD Transportation Management System
• Track & Trace Supplier Portal is key
• New product interface for Desktop Shipping capability (On Demand)
• New US import capability
• QAD Supply Visualization
• QAD On Demand offering
• Key aspect is its integration with QAD TMS track & trace
• QAD Business Intelligence 2007.1
• QAD .NET UI 2007.1
• QAD QXtend 2007.1

For more information on the enriched functionality of the QAD Enterprise Applications 2007.1 product release and the latest on-demand opportunities, please visit the QAD Web site