QAD Honoured at 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards

June 3, 2011 - PRLog -- QAD Inc. (NASDAQ- QADA, QADB), a leading provider of enterprise business software and services for global manufacturing companies, today announced that Network Products Guide (NPG), an industry leading technology research and advisory guide, has honored several QAD products, personnel and one of its customers  in its 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards.

This premier information technology (IT) awards program honoring industry and peer achievement. QAD recipients earned top honors in NPG’s Executives and Management Teams, Best Products and Services, and Best White Paper categories.  

NPG named 20-year veteran of the IT industry and QAD customer Mike Booke, vice president of Global Information Technology at Capital Safety, CIO-IT Executive of the Year. Booke leads the global use of technology as a business differentiator for Capital Safety Group, most recently driving initiatives with QAD Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, including Business Intelligence and Supply Chain.

MaryAnn Guthrie, director of Research and Development, Customer Management for QAD, earned the coveted Research and Development Professional of the Year award. Guthrie has served at QAD for over 12 years in a career spanning over 25 years in Information Technology. By defining the strategic goals of the QAD Customer Management organization in alignment with corporate intra- and inter-departmental goals, Guthrie has lead the team to deliver innovative solutions that exceed market requirements.  

In its Best Products and Services category, NPG presented QAD two awards for Solutions for Manufacturing: Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for Asset Management and Shop Floor Planning and Scheduling Workbenches.

QAD Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is an integrated plant operations solution that enables manufacturing companies to manage assets from inception through operations and replacement to run their equipment at the lowest cost and operate their plants, seamlessly.

QAD Planning and Scheduling Workbenches provides planners and schedulers with simultaneous visibility to schedules and all supporting data needed to control and collaborate across the production and materials planning space.

Additionally, NPG honored QAD’s whitepaper “QAD for Serialization and ePedigree: New Opportunities for Life Sciences Manufacturers” in its Best White Papers category. This white paper explains why life sciences companies must understand the implications of serialization and ePedigree, and has been downloaded extensively.

“We’re very proud of all of our award recipients, and in particular to see one of our customers honored,” said Gordon Fleming, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for QAD. “QAD is committed to delivering excellent products and services for global manufacturers, in our pursuit to helping every customer become an ‘Effective Enterprise’. These awards validate everyone’s commitment and effort on customer focus, innovation and excellence.”

About QAD
QAD is a leading provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications for global manufacturing companies. QAD applications, including SaaS ERP provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time.  Manufacturers of automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life science products use QAD applications at approximately 6,100 licensed sites in more than 90 countries and in as many as 27 languages.  For more information about QAD, telephone +1 805 684 6614, or visit the QAD Web site at www.qad.com.

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Note to Investors: This press release contains certain forward-looking statements made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, evolving demand for the company's software products and products that operate with the company's products; the company's ability to sustain license and service demand; the company's ability to leverage changes in technology; the company's ability to sustain customer renewal rates at current levels; the publication of opinions by industry and financial analysts about the company, its products and technology; the reliability of estimates of transaction and integration costs and benefits; the entry of new competitors or new offerings by existing competitors and the associated announcement of new products and technological advances by them; delays in localizing the company's products for new or existing markets; the ability to recruit and retain key personnel; delays in sales as a result of lengthy sales cycles; changes in operating expenses, pricing, timing of new product releases, the method of product distribution or product mix; timely and effective integration of newly acquired businesses; general economic conditions; exchange rate fluctuations; and, the global political environment. In addition, revenue and earnings in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software industry are subject to fluctuations. Software license revenue, in particular, is subject to variability with a significant proportion of revenue earned in the last month of each quarter. Given the high margins associated with license revenue, modest fluctuations can have a substantial impact on net income. Investors should not use any one quarter's results as a benchmark for future performance. For a more detailed description of the risk factors associated with the company and the industries in which it operates, please refer to the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2011 ended January 31, 2011.

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Founded in 1979, QAD has been recognized as a leading provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software applications for global manufacturing companies. Today, QAD enterprise applications leverage advances in Internet and enabling technologies to provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time.

QAD enterprise applications are focused and optimized for select manufacturing industry segments: automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life sciences.