QAD Explore 2012
QAD Technology
Tony J Winter
Chief Technology Officer, QAD
QAD Technology
Safe Harbor Statement
The following is intended to outline QAD’s general
product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into
any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver
any material, code, functional capabilities, and
should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions. The development, release, and timing
of any features or functional capabilities
described for QAD’s products remains at the sole
discretion of QAD.
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Our Vision: The Effective Enterprise
Every business process working at
peak efficiency and perfectly aligned
with your strategic goals.
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Technology and Foundation
Twitter
OpenEdge
SOA
RIA
iOS
Social
Networking
ESB
Silverlight
REST
Analytics
Virtual
Converged
Infrastructure
Facebook
Android
.NET
Web
Services
BPM
Cloud
Computing
HTML 5
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Technology and Foundation
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Technology Focus
People
Process
System
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People – Ubiquitous Computing
Vision
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Natural User Interface
Multi-device (mobility)
Personalization
Analytics / BI / Reporting
Global
Realization
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Common API infrastructure
Modularization
Role-based centers
Portal
• Browser-based UI
• Data driven UI
• Dashboards and control
centers
• Social and collaboration
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Intuitive, Informative, Intelligent
• Role-Based Centers
- Speed access and ability
to respond
- Reduce training cost
- Simplify and personalize
• Related reports and
operational metrics
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Monitor, Measure, Message – Customer
Management Example
• Sales metrics
- Overdue orders
- Not shipped on time
in full
• Services metrics
- Open calls by queue
- Fault code analysis
- Engineer utilization
• BI Sales Module
• Alerts
- Sales orders on credit
hold
- Call assigned
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Business Intelligence
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Mobile Offerings
• BI
- Android Tablet
- iPad
• Requisition Approvals
- Android
- iPhone
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Usability
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Process
Vision
• Industry best practices
• Business Process
Management
• Connecting people
• Process consistency
• Simulation
Realization
• Configurable process maps
• Process by:
• Vertical, end-to-end &
supply chain
• Link QAD doc library
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QAD BPM
• Non-intrusive
• Partially intrusive
• Fully integrated
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Process Maps
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QAD Business Process Management
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Systems - Cloud
Vision
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On Demand
Cloud integration & SOA
Streamline software delivery
Plug and play (modules and
3rd party products)
Realization
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QAD On Demand
Virtualization support
Scalability testing
QAD Monitoring
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QAD Store
Product packaging
Integration
Office integration
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Integration
Connectors and
Toolkit for Common
Integration
Cloud
Connectors
link to other
SaaS
applications
Connectors for your
best of breed apps
Excel
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Willingness to Consider SaaS vs On Premise
(Aberdeen)
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QAD On Demand Growth From Q1 FY 2010
First Eight
Customers FY10
Customers FY11
Customers FY12
•33 Customers
•55 Sites
•1270+ users
•66+ Customers
•127+ Sites
•3800+ users
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Deployment Evolution
On Premise
Virtual
Cloud
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QAD Monitoring
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Holistic monitoring framework
Alerting and graphing infrastructure
Technology agnostic
Deployed as a virtual appliance
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QAD Store
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Streamline the delivery of software
Marketing and visualizing information
Storefront or marketplace
Personalization
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QAD Store Walkthrough
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Technology Partner: Progress Software
Jim Miles
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Progress Strategic Advantage
We have valuable assets
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30 years of profitable history
Global ecosystem
Strong customer base
- 1,400 APs
- 350 OEMs
- 3,500 direct end users
- 400,000 indirect end users
- 95% renewal rate
Strong presence within SMB
and departmental presence
within enterprise
 OpenEdge: Multi-tenant,
multi-language on-premise
and Cloud development and
deployment environment
 DataDirect Connect:
Market leading position in
data connectivity
 Apama Analytics and
Decisions: Market leading
platform for fast, scalable realtime analytics
Progress Operating Philosophy
• Customer focus and innovation
• Growth better than market rates
• Operational excellence
Commitment to driving shareholder value
Progress Strategic Plan
Progress Software will be a leading independent
application development and deployment
platform in the Cloud
(Progress aPaaS)
Progress Product Roadmap
FY 12
• Application Development and
Deployment: Management
and monitoring of Cloudbased applications: mobility
framework
• Data Access: Build
connectivity to SaaS
applications: standardsbased access for Big Data,
Hadoop; acquire additional
API’s
• Real-Time Analytics: Cloudready UI; elastic caching;
extend lead in analytic
performance; support new
capital markets use cases
FY13+
• Application Development and
Deployment: Expand multitenancy, Cloud deployment,
mobile platform
• Data Access: Pilot Cloud
connector; continue expansion
of data sources; further enable
Big Data with support of
streaming sources
• Real-Time Analytics: Launch
real-time analytics in the Cloud;
build or acquire predictive
analytics and social media
analytics; create business user
rules interface
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Questions & Answers
Tony J Winter
tww@qad.com
Jim Miles
Strategic Account Executive, Progress Software
jim.miles@progress.com
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Next Steps
• Attend these related sessions:
- .NETUI: New Enhancements 3:15pm (Tue)
- Operating QAD On Demand 1:30pm (Wed)
- QAD BPM 2:45pm (Wed)
• Stop by the Solutions Expo
- Disaster Recovery with OE Replication & QAD
Monitoring 3:15pm (Tue)
- QAD BPM demo session 4:15pm (Wed) – Solutions
Expo
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