Additional Capabilities for QAD Adaptive

QAD Adaptive Analytics

QAD Adaptive Analytics enables manufacturers to monitor performance against key metrics and indicators in real time. It provides flexible reporting, from simple queries to complex OLAP analysis, with the ability to drill down into detailed data from multiple sources. Champion AI enhances analytics by highlighting trends, identifying anomalies, and recommending actions to improve decision-making and operational performance.

Key Benefits:
 • Drive performance: Track performance against strategic and operational metrics
 • Improve business outcomes: Gain visibility into trends to align operations with goals
 • Reduce risk: Identify potential issues before they impact performance
 • Streamlined reporting: Consolidate data from multiple sources for a single view
 • Custom outputs: Create forms and reports with WYSIWYG formatting

Highlights:
 • Operational Metrics: Single view of enterprise performance with proactive alerts
 • Reporting Framework: Graphical dashboards, structured inquiries, and customizable reports
 • Workflow Alerts: Automated notifications to ensure critical information reaches the right users
 • Business Intelligence: Unified data from multiple sources using integrated ETL, accessible via browser-based dashboards
 • BI Portal: Secure, customizable dashboards for decision-makers with reusable components

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

QAD Adaptive EAM helps manufacturers optimize plant operations by keeping equipment reliable while controlling maintenance and capital costs. It manages planned and unplanned maintenance, calibrations, MRO inventory, and capital projects, supporting both efficiency and cost control.

Key Benefits:
 • Plant Maintenance: Schedule preventive and predictive maintenance to reduce downtime and maximize throughput
 • MRO Management: Optimize inventory across facilities, ensuring critical spares are available while minimizing excess
 • Project Accounting: Track budgets and costs for capital and engineer-to-order projects with real-time visibility

Highlights:
 • Project Accounting: Monitor budgets, spending, and milestones at the project and sub-component levels
 • Plant Maintenance: Comprehensive work order management for planned and unplanned maintenance
 • MRO Management: Balance inventory needs with spending policies and operational requirements

Interoperability Solutions

QAD Adaptive provides multiple layers of integration to enable seamless communication between enterprise and trading partner applications. Standardized business rules and modern APIs simplify integration and upgrades, reducing costs and minimizing custom coding.

Key Features:
 • QXtend: Message-based integration tool with full API support for automated, rules-driven data synchronization
 • Integrated Customization Toolkit: Non-invasive customization framework with tools for tracking, debugging, and upgrading
 • Desktop Integration: Connects QAD with Microsoft Office and Excel for streamlined workflows

EDI & eCommerce

QAD Adaptive supports streamlined B2B communications via EDI and eCommerce, providing end-to-end integration for trading partners. It manages multiple parallel EDI documents, supports Value-Added Networks (VANs), and ensures accurate, automated processing of orders and transactions across the supply chain.

Integrations

QAD Integration Platform powered by Boomi uses RESTful APIs to protect extensions from being broken during updates.

Clean Slate

QAD Streamline methodology focuses on returning customers to a ​“clean slate” by replacing intrusive customizations with upgrade-safe platform extensions.