QAD Introduces Fully Embedded Business Process Management in QAD Enterprise Applications

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QAD Introduces Fully Embedded Business Process Management in QAD Enterprise Applications

New QAD BPM Solution Free for QAD Customers on Maintenance

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- QAD Inc. (NAS: QADA) (NAS: QADB) , a leading provider of enterprise software and services for global manufacturers, today announced QAD Business Process Management (BPM) solution fully integrated with Enterprise Applications.


Free to customers on QAD maintenance for QAD Enterprise Edition (QAD EE) or Standard Edition (QAD SE) solutions, QAD BPM offers enterprises a faster, better and more intelligent way to visualize and automate business processes. QAD BPM empowers organizations to identify and follow conditional decision points throughout the business process. With QAD BPM, companies gain greater visibility across the entire organization to identify and optimize end-to-end performance.

Delivering much more than a workflow solution, QAD BPM is helping customers to drive enterprise performance, operational excellence and build business process agility into their organizations. QAD BPM is a combination of management practices, policies, metrics and software tools designed to help organizations document, automate, manage, analyze and improve processes.

QAD BPM can help organizations become more agile in a number of ways:

  • Create business process models that drive process execution

  • Assign task responsibilities/ownership to individual users/roles

  • Automate execution of the business process

  • Reduce process execution time

  • Operational metrics show the status of active processes

  • Improve visibility of active processes

  • Analyze process execution metrics

  • Identify bottlenecks

  • Model process modifications

  • Support process improvement

Achieving Compliance and Innovation on a Daily Basis with QAD BPM

Keeping up with complex compliance, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements can be very costly and time-consuming. Using QAD BPM, organizations can help keep these costs under control.

"In today's real-time business environment, organizations need to be prepared to transform challenges into opportunities that align with their strategic goals," said Bill Keese, SVP research and development at QAD. "QAD BPM helps customers identify and take action on unforeseen opportunities that were previously siloed in day to day operational processes. By harnessing the power of BPM technology as a competitive advantage, your entire enterprise can become a more agile, effective enterprise."

For more information on QAD BPM and QAD Enterprise Applications, visit www.qad.com.

About QAD

QAD is a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies specializing in automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life sciences products. QAD applications provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time. For more information about QAD, telephone +1 805-566-6000, or visit the QAD web site at www.qad.com.

"QAD" is a registered trademark of QAD Inc. All other products or company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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