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by Alan Alper, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:00:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    With its key automotive sector stuck in neutral, QAD Inc. used its recent Explore user conference to give mid-tier customers far and wide some extra octane to accelerate into IT's passing lane. Coming off some recent challenging quarters, the ERP vendor rolled out three modules for its year-old, SOA-based GXE enterprise applications suite. The new modules are said to enable geographically dispersed mid-tier manufacturers to more easily detect, administer, and adapt to demand signal changes. Moreover, the Carpinteria, CA, company met earlier promises by unveiling usability enhancements for its ERP applications built on Microsoft's .NET framework. As part of its Microsoft embrace, QAD is now offering SQL Server as a lower-cost-of-ownership alternative to the Oracle Corp. and Progress Software Corp. databases it already offers. A new demand management engine and related tools are aimed at helping manufacturers optimize inventory planning and promotions management. New rule- and role-based order management tools are focused on helping GXE customers more easily accommodate changes in how and where products are built, assembled, delivered, and, most importantly, accounted for. A new configurator module, meanwhile, is positioned to help engineers and sales representatives more efficiently adapt their products to ever-expanding market requirements. [Click to continue] |
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