Aberdeen Group, a leading firm of technology analysts, published QAD On Demand Gives Manufacturers the Tools They Need to Become Global, its latest Analyst Insight report, announced QAD Inc, a leading provider of enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. In the report, Aberdeen cites QAD as a pioneer in delivering a complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution in a Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) delivery model.

“Some ERP providers have been ahead of the curve in acting on this willingness,” Aberdeen stated in its report. “QAD was among the first to offer ERP in the SaaS model with QAD On Demand.”

An SaaS solution, QAD Enterprise Applications On Demand delivers all of the functionality of QAD’s On Premise applications, while reducing the total cost of ownership. QAD manages and administers all the software, systems and infrastructure in a secure, reliable data center complying to SAS (News - Alert) 70 standards for security and delivering availability greater than 99 percent, thereby mitigating many of the IT and financial risks associated with ERP implementation and operation.

Aberdeen (News - Alert) identifies various reason for citing QAD as a pioneer in ERP solutions. Among the reasons most often cited by respondents in a 2010 Aberdeen survey were: a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), the reduced cost and effort of upgrading and lower up-front costs.

“QAD On Demand is priced to address some of these cost factors,” noted Aberdeen in its report. “If you consider all of the associated costs of running an on-premise solution, including hardware, software and supporting staff, the all-inclusive price of QAD On Demand is lower than the average cost of a traditional licensed on-premise solution.”

 “We’re extremely pleased by the outlook expressed in the Aberdeen Analyst Insight report,” stated Gordon Fleming, chief marketing officer at QAD, in a press release. “It validates the value that QAD On Demand provides our customers and corroborates our own market adoption expectations. In fact, we expect significant adoption in the coming year among customers planning global expansion and smaller companies requiring a robust, yet affordable ERP option.”

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Edited by Jaclyn Allard