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Direction For the Future
Tony Winter – Chief Technology Officer, QAD, & Brandon Gibbs – Technical Account Mgr for Strategic Accounts, Progress Software
QAD & Progress
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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.
Safe Harbor Statement
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Business Making Progress
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• 30 years of Experience- NASDAQ: PRGS- Headquarters: Bedford, MA- Customer Sites: Over 140,000- Offices: 90
Worldwide- Revenue: $530M +- Employees: 1800+ - Founded: November 1981
• Global Presence- Deployed in 175
countries worldwide
Progress Software Snapshot
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• Progress community $5B total annual revenue
• 5 Million users worldwide• 1,500 Partners deliver 5,000 unique
business applications• VAR Business 5-star rating for partner
program• PSC and its application partners add 600K
new users each year
Progress Customer & Partner Base
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• 60% of Fortune 500 manufacturers use Progress technology
• Progress serves the leaders in many markets- 4 out of 5 of the world’s largest in electronics- 3 out of 4 of the world’s largest in medical- 4 out of 5 of the world’s largest in beverage- 2 out of 4 of world's largest in food- 16 out of 25 of the world’s largest auto suppliers
• Over 250 SaaS Providers using Progress technologies today to deploy, manage or integrate over 700 SaaS applications
Progress Customer & Partner Base
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• Partners for over 27 years• Progress and QAD product road maps are
very closely aligned• QAD continues to take advantage of new
Progress technologies• Thank you for your loyalty and business!
Progress & QAD
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Flexible
Open
Reliable
Scalable
QAD’s Requirements for a Technology Platform
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Auditing via Enhanced Controls updatePerformance w/Type II areas
Via the Database…
Via the Servers…
AppSvr is Business Services Layer for entire appBackend database options via DataServers
OpenClient used to support .NET UI and QXtendWebSpeed in Customer Self Service (CSS) &
Manufacturing
Via the Clients…
OE Architect for development productivity
Via the IDE…
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QAD & Progress Deliver Business Value
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Core Business Logic for QAD EEOOABL with QXtend
Client Principle Object with Auditing
Via the ABL…
37 and counting
Via Platform Support…
OE Replication used to protect On Demand customers
Via Data Management / Replication Tools…
ODBC access for Analytics and Service & Support
Via SQL Compliance…
Interoperates with QXtend
Via Sonic Enterprise Service Bus …
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QAD Performance Tests on Real Data
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Continuously anticipate problematic events and re-prioritize the supply chain to optimize product delivery
Investigate potentially fraudulent activity while it’s happening and prevent it from spreading
Dynamically up-sell based on customer activity, context and location
…organizations need to improve their overall situational awareness…Gartner calls this “Operational Responsiveness” …
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The New Imperative: Not What is Happening, But What Will Happen?
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Continuous Business Process
Improvement
Immediate Sense-and-
Respond
Real-time Business Visibility
Continuously improve your business’
Operational Responsiveness
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Progress Delivers Operational Responsiveness
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• OpenEdge is the leading application platform for simplifying the delivery of responsive business applications in the cloud
OpenEdge: Our Vision
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Agility
Process improvement
Visibility
Business empowerment
Easier customization of applications
More use cases
Reduced cost of development
Modernization of existing applications
End users’ requirements Developers’ requirements
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The New Requirements of Business Applications
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The New Business Application Architecture
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To build business process applications, a business process-enabled application development platform is needed.
Business Process ApplicationTraditional Application
DBMS
Application
DBMS
Application
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What is a Business Process?
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Metrics & Measurements
Workflow Description
Business Rules
InformationPeople and Systems
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QAD & Progress Partnering to Utilize the Progress Savvion BPM for You
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BPABusiness Process
Analyses
Business Analysts
BPEBusiness Process
Execution
Application Developers
BPIBusiness Process
Improvement
Business Managers
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QAD Visions Increase Responsiveness and Reduce Costs
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Service & Support
Shipping
CSR
Customers
Operational Responsiveness with OE BPM
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OpenEdgeRobust DBMS and business language for automating steps in business processes
Savvion BPM SuiteLeading BPM suite for defining, executing and monitoring business processes
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OpenEdge BPMEnabling the development of business process applications
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QAD & OpenEdge BPMApplication Integration
Presentation Layer
Services Layer
Business Layer
Data Layer
Com
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• First to market with business process-enabled application development platform
• Integration with OpenEdge
• Built on market-leading Savvion BPM technology
• Ability to enhance existing OpenEdge
• Aligns with QAD’s vision of connecting people and process
Why OpenEdge BPM & QAD?
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• Out-of-box adapters- Database integration- Web services
integration- JMS integration- Email integration- QAD integration- SAP integration- Documentum
integration- Microsoft Office- Progress Actional- Progress Apama- Progress Sonic
• Adapter framework
Existing Systems Can Be Modernized Into Business Process Applications
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• Progress is investing heavily into OpenEdge• Progress & QAD partnership is as strong as
ever• Progress’ investments into innovative
technologies continue to bring value to QAD and their customers
• The future is bright!
Summary
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Metrics Affected
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Benefits
Maximize use of existing capital investment, with better response time
Eliminate non-value add process steps
Improve communication with the entire supply chain
Anticipate problems to improve responses
Better user adoption
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• Attend General Session - QAD Technology Foundation and Interoperability - Wednesday at 9:00 AM - Speaker: Tony Winter
Next Steps
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• Tony Winter [email protected]• Brandon Gibbs [email protected]
Questions & Answers
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