What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness?
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is both a benchmark and a baseline that’s valuable for manufacturers to know when it comes to measuring productivity. Below are the key benefits of this metric,...
Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2022
QAD is excited to announce the general availability of QAD Adaptive ERP 2022, the latest version of QAD’s next generation ERP solution that includes the Adaptive User Experience (UX) and the QAD Enterprise...
How Secure is Your Data on World Backup Day?
March 31st is annual World Backup Day, a date chosen to keep people from becoming an April Fool the following day with lost files and data. Jokingly created in 2011 by...
QAD Named Top 10 Most Powerful ERP Vendor
It’s time to celebrate! CIO Magazine recently named QAD one of the 10 most powerful ERP vendors on the market today (hey, we’re not surprised!). We’re honored and excited – and...
SaaS, In-House and the Growing Need for APIs
In the olden days—say five to 10 years ago, enterprise business systems ran in-house. Although they might use an outside service to do it, if a company needed multiple solutions, they...
SaaS Diffusion and the Improvement of Business Capabilities
Have you jumped into the deep end of SaaS yet? Maybe you’re saying, I’m in up to my ankles now, that’s far enough, I’ll get the agility benefits we talked about...
Alexander Graham Bell and the Evolution of Communications
This year, March 3rd marks the 175th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s birth and a fine time to explore his multiple contributions to science, technology, and most of all, communications. Thanks...
The (Delayed) Rise of the Robotaxi
Your day of work is done, and it’s time to head home. But, instead of heading to the parking garage or trying to hail down a taxi in downtown rush hour,...
What is the State of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing?
It’s said change is the only constant, and the manufacturing industry is proof. It’s an industry that faces consistent disruption, causing manufacturers to be in a permanent state of adaptation. They...
What is an API and Why is It Important in Business?
If you’ve been doing any research on business systems or general technology, you’ve probably seen a lot of chatter about application program interfaces (APIs). The very name sounds complicated and extremely...