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Enhancing Customer Collaboration
With QAD’s Managed EDI
Carlos García – Global EDI Services Director, QAD
Ewan Friend – Managing Director, Data Interchange
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Session Objectives
■ Get a basic understanding of
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What is QAD Managed EDI
High level architecture
Solution components
New available functionality
Delivery model
Introduce Partnership with Data Interchange
Product demonstration
The value proposition
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Agenda
■ Background
■ QAD Managed EDI
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What is QAD Managed EDI
High level architecture
Solution components
New available functionality
Delivery model
Introduce Partnership with Data Interchange
Product demonstration
The value proposition
Summary
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Background
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Background
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Today EDI is a key customer requirement
Used in all QAD verticals
Business critical
From an strategic point of view, QAD
wanted to
 Complement EDI eCommerce
 Provide a complete EDI solution
 Provide an “on demand” EDI solution
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QAD Managed EDI
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What is QAD Managed EDI?
■ A complete set of services that complement
and expand QAD’s current EDI solution to
provide a complete end-to-end EDI solution
■ Standard QAD EDI offering for
 QAD On Demand
 QAD On Premise
■ QAD Managed EDI is composed of
 An EDI Translation and Communication Service
■ Complemented with Application Managed
Services for EDI eCommerce
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Basic EDI Architecture
On Demand
On Premise / On Demand
VAN
TP
EDI
QAD
EDI
SNF
Station
EDI
eCommerce
QAD
Direct
Communication
Translation
QME Base Support Service
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ERP Integration
AMS for EDI eC
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Delivery Model
■ QAD Managed is provided by
 QAD Global EDI Services
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Is the single point of contact for the customer
Initial Implementation
On-going support services
QAD takes full responsibility for all the EDI aspects (End-toEnd)
 A partnership with Data Interchange
− Provides supporting software in the background
− Completes integrated service delivery
■ Integrated with QAD
 Incident reporting through the QAD Support Portal
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The QAD EDI Services Team
■ Team of experienced professionals
 Up to 20 years of experience
■ Located in the US and EMEA
■ EDI Competence Center located in
Barcelona
■ 40 EDI Professionals
 With deep field expertise
 Deep knowledge of QAD Applications
■ Languages covered
 English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese,
German, Italian
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Service Security & Availability (I)
■ Service availability during 2012
 Availability for 99.9982%
 Down time less than 62 minutes during the last 12
months
■ Service monitored 24x7
 EPIC errors (including file processing errors)
 EPIC system monitoring (hardware)
 Communications availability
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Service Security & Availability (II)
■ Application errors are analyzed and routed
 Previously found – non critical – mail alert
 Previously found – critical – mobile alert
 Not previously found – critical – mobile alert
■ Hosting infrastructure
 Non-critical – mail alert
 Critical – mobile alert
■ Communications channel
 Monitored every 5 minutes from the outside
− On failure is placed on retry
− After a period routed through mobile alert
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Connectivity
■ Thousands of connections available
■ No VAN interconnection costs
 DINET, Sterling Commerce, Covisint, IBM, GXS, Inovis,
Indra, Intesa, Easylink (AT&T), BT Infonet, Map, BT
EDI*NET, T-Systems, EDS, Telefonica, EDIServ,
Multilateral
■ Direct connections to any partner supporting
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AS2 (http and https)
OFTP and OFTP2 over ISDN and TCP/IP
X400 (P1/P2 connections)
SMTP (Outbound)
ENX and ANX
TCP/IP
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Translation capabilities
■ Thousands of connections available
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ANSI X12
EDIFACT
VDA
ODETTE
EANCOM
TRADACOM
■ Other non-EDI formats supported
 XML
 CSV
 Flat files
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QAD Managed EDI to date…
■ QAD Managed EDI has been piloted
 With 22 different QAD customers
 Covering EMEA and NA
 Covering the following verticals
− Automotive
− Foods & Beverage
− Life Sciences
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Trading Partners Connected
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Additional Services
■ Supplier on boarding
■ Application Managed Services for EDI
eCommerce
■ Proactive monitoring
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The QME Dashboard
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Partnership with Data Interchange
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Data Interchange - Introduction
Introduction
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Data Interchange - It’s now time to get going……
Its time to get going
www.DataInterchange.com
www.datainterchange.com
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Product Demonstration
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The Value Proposition
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The Value Proposition
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End to End Solution
One Step Shop Concept
Fully integrated with QAD Applications
Completes QAD’s On Demand offering
Allows customers to
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Increase focus on core business
Limit the effect of limited internal resources bandwidth.
Minimize backlog of high-priority IT Projects
Benefit from EDI without requiring any EDI knowledge
Improve the effectiveness of existing EDI links with
customers and suppliers
■ Standardize a global approach for EDI deployment
and support
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Full Session Title
Summary
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Summary
■ Completes EDI eCommerce to an End to
End EDI solution
■ Available for On Demand and On Premise
customers
■ Fully integrated with QAD Applications
■ One step shop concept
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Questions & Answers
■ Carlos García: cgz@qad.com
■ Ewan Friend:
ewan.friend@datainterchange.com
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Next Steps
■ For further information contact:
 your QAD account manager
 global_edi@qad.com
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