QAD Integration Platform

Robust integration can be a critical component of a manufacturer being able to focus on growth rather than simply surviving another day:

Extendable - Use standard connectors along with non-intrusive extensibility, enabling every system and integration to fit your needs
Efficient - Centralized message streaming allows publishing and subscribing systems to change with minimal cascading impact
Secure - Keep your data and systems safe from external threats without sacrificing functionality
Recognized and Supported - Empower your organization to get the support it needs from QAD, your own staff and a wide range of partners

System Diversity - No system or solution provider can cover every need so every organization ends up with a different mix of vendors and products
Data Management - Many solutions depend on data that resides in multiple applications or requires external interactions; manual entry is error-prone and time-consuming
Numerous Consequences - Integrations can be complex and can lead to security breaches, lost or duplicated data and version locks across multiple applications when implemented incorrectly
Expensive to Correct - Integration failures are often caught after they occur, resulting in a multiplication of issues and related resolution costs

Capabilities

Industry Standard

The QAD Integration Platform utilizes Boomi, a proven and analyst-recognized platform

Controlled

Manage, secure and develop from a single portal, promoting integration best practices and standards

Ready to Connect

QAD Adaptive Applications are architected for integration with capabilities exposed through REST APIs

Robust

QAD has facilitated integrations across all functional areas for diverse purposes:

Connections within an enterprise, application-to-application (A2A)
Communication outside of an enterprise like application-to-government (A2G), business-to-business (B2B), and regulatory compliance
End-to-end EDI capabilities and services

Manufacturers often struggle obtaining comprehensive business insights because of separate applications. Similarly, manufacturers’ attempts to continuously improve processes and practices stall due to isolated solutions and systems. Manual data entry workarounds can result in financial and operational data errors that are expensive to resolve and, in the worst-case scenario, become visible to the customer. Custom-built home-grown integration proves difficult to maintain as the connecting solutions, systems and in-house IT staff change. Multiple integration solutions increase costs and interfere with the ability to make desirable application upgrades. Rigid integration prevents manufacturers from responding rapidly to new business opportunities and lowers business flexibility by slowing down the use of new deployment choices, like cloud.

QAD Integration leverages a leading best-of-breed cloud integration platform to help manufacturers increase overall business effectiveness through better data, process and application integration. This results in more flexible yet dependable integrations that are easy to build and maintain.

Make better decisions by improving data accuracy, mapping availability and synchronization
Increase customer satisfaction and operational effectiveness by reducing error-prone data entry
Improve audit performance by effectively meeting data governance requirements
Lower integration costs and risk by reducing dependence on home-grown and redundant third-party integration solutions
Reduce time, cost and risk of new integrations through a comprehensive set of standard connectors
Easily and securely connect solutions to support evolving application portfolio strategies
Choose “zero deployment” global integration to reduce deployment time and management cost
Integrate using standards-based protocols and open standards
Connect manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and finance processes to eliminate costs that stem from error-prone manual steps
Work with a proven team of global integration experts to help with training, implementation and support

QAD Integration Platform provides standard integrations within QAD Adaptive Applications along with a complete set of integration capabilities, community, and connectors.

Connect and integrate anywhere, globally, not just with other applications but with social networks, web services and custom-built apps, using the secure and scalable integration platform
Manage, secure and develop from a single portal, promoting integration best practices and standards
A large set of pre-developed connectors reduces integration development time, improves quality and supports reusability
Easy to use graphical data and process mapping simplifies building complex or custom integrations
Fully trained QAD and partner experts ensure quality professional services and support

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