QAD & Progress
Direction For the Future
Tony Winter – Chief Technology Officer, QAD, & Brandon Gibbs –
Technical Account Mgr for Strategic Accounts, Progress Software
QAD & Progress Direction For the Future
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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Business Making Progress
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Progress Software Snapshot
• 30 years of Experience
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NASDAQ:
Headquarters:
Customer Sites:
Offices:
Revenue:
Employees:
Founded:
PRGS
Bedford, MA
Over 140,000
90 Worldwide
$530M +
1800+
November 1981
• Global Presence
- Deployed in 175
countries worldwide
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Progress Customer & Partner Base
• 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
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Progress Customer & Partner Base
• 60% of Fortune 500 manufacturers use
Progress technology
• Progress serves the leaders in many markets
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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
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Progress & QAD
• 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!
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QAD’s Requirements for a Technology Platform
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QAD & Progress Deliver Business Value
Via the Database…
Auditing via Enhanced Controls update
Performance w/Type II areas
Via the Servers…
AppSvr is Business Services Layer for entire app
Backend database options via DataServers
Via the Clients…
OpenClient used to support .NET UI and QXtend
WebSpeed in Customer Self Service (CSS) & Manufacturing
Via the IDE…
OE Architect for development productivity
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QAD & Progress Deliver Business Value
Via the ABL…
Core Business Logic for QAD EE
OOABL with QXtend
Client Principle Object with Auditing
Via Platform Support…
37 and counting
Via Data Management / Replication Tools…
OE Replication used to protect On Demand customers
Via SQL Compliance…
ODBC access for Analytics and Service & Support
Via Sonic Enterprise Service Bus …
Interoperates with QXtend
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QAD Performance Tests on Real Data
16.0
14.0
Execution Time (seconds)
14.0
12.8
13.8
12.8
12.2
11.7
12.0
11.3
11.0
10.0
10.9
9.4
9.8
8.0
8.5
6.0
4.0
2.0
0.0
4
5
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OE 10.2A
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8
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OE 10.2B
Query
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The New Imperative: Not What is Happening, But
What Will Happen?
Continuously anticipate problematic events and
re-prioritize the supply chain to optimize product
delivery
…organizations need to improve their overall
situational awareness…Gartner calls this
Dynamically
up-sell based
“Operational
Responsiveness”
… on customer activity,
context and location
Investigate potentially fraudulent activity while
it’s happening and prevent it from spreading
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Progress Delivers Operational Responsiveness
Real-time
Business Visibility
Immediate
Sense-andRespond
Continuous
Business Process
Improvement
Continuously improve
your business’
Operational
Responsiveness
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OpenEdge: Our Vision
• OpenEdge is the leading application
platform for simplifying the delivery of
responsive business applications in the cloud
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The New Requirements of Business Applications
End users’ requirements
Developers’ requirements
Visibility
Reduced cost of
development
Agility
Easier customization
of applications
Process improvement
More use cases
Business empowerment
Modernization of existing
applications
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The New Business Application Architecture
Application
DBMS
Traditional Application
Application
DBMS
Business Process Application
To build business process applications, a business processenabled application development platform is needed.
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What is a Business Process?
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People and Systems
Workflow Description
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Information
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Business Rules
=
Process
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Metrics & Measurements
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QAD & Progress Partnering to Utilize the
Progress Savvion BPM for You
Application
Developers
Business
Analysts
Business
Managers
BPA
BPE
Business Process
Execution
Business Process
Analyses
BPI
Business Process
Improvement
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QAD Visions Increase Responsiveness and
Reduce Costs
CSR
Shipping
Service & Support
Customers
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Operational Responsiveness with OE BPM
OpenEdge BPM
Enabling the development of business process applications
Savvion BPM Suite
Leading BPM suite for defining, executing and monitoring
business processes
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OpenEdge
Robust DBMS and business language for automating steps in
business processes
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QAD & OpenEdge BPM
Application Integration
Presentation Layer
Common
Services
Services Layer
Business Layer
Data Layer
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Why OpenEdge BPM & QAD?
• 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
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Existing Systems Can Be Modernized Into
Business Process Applications
• 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
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Summary
• 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!
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Metrics Affected
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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Next Steps
• Attend General Session - QAD Technology
Foundation and Interoperability
- Wednesday at 9:00 AM
- Speaker: Tony Winter
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Questions & Answers
• Tony Winter
• Brandon Gibbs
[email protected]
[email protected]
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