written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . june 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message qad inc type public nasdaq qada nasdaq qadb industry computer software founded carpinteria california 1979 headquarters 100 innovation place santa barbara california 93108 key people pamela lopker chairman of the board and president karl f. lopker ceo products erp qad enterprise applications qad cloud erp number of employees 1 540 january 2014 website www.qad.com qad is a software company that provides enterprise resource planning erp software to manufacturing companies around the world . 1 contents 1 company overview 2 history 3 qad enterprise applications 4 qad cloud erp 5 references 6 external links company overview edit the company s product suite is called qad enterprise applications known as mfg pro prior to 2007 . qad cloud erp is the software as a service saas or cloud computing model of qad s product suite enterprise applications . qad sells its products and services to companies in six main manufacturing industries automotive consumer products high technology food and beverage industrial equipment and life sciences . as of december 2013 qad software is in use at 5 300 manufacturing sites in more than 95 countries . for the full year ended january 31 2015 total revenue was 295.1 million . 2 history edit qad was formed in 1979 by pamela lopker who remains qad president and chairman today . qad initially developed proprietary software applications for manufacturing companies in southern california . in 1984 qad launched its flagship product mfg pro . mfg pro was built using the progress software corporation s fourth generation language 4gl and relational database . mfg pro was one of the first software applications built for manufacturers following the apics principles . mfg pro was also one of the first applications to support closed loop manufacturing resource planning mrp ii as well as operating in the newly emerging open systems arena . qad software supports lean manufacturing principles and inter operates with other systems via open standards . in 2003 a product called supply visualization was first hosted in multi tenant configuration for qad customers and those customers suppliers making qad an early player in providing saas software for manufacturing . supplier portal previously called supply visualization and supply chain portal continues to allow customers and their authorized suppliers to share information about inventory scheduling purchase orders shipments kanbans and much more . 1984 qad launched its flagship software mfg pro now known as qad enterprise applications . 1987 qad created the first business application that ran on unix . 1997 qad stock began trading as of its initial public offering ipo on august 6 . 2006 qad launched its next generation user interface called . net ui . 2006 qad acquired precision software a company delivering transportation global trade and supply chain management software to businesses around the world . 2006 qad acquired bisgen ltd. a uk based company whose product is tailored to the unique sales force and marketing automation needs of manufacturers . 2006 qad acquired fbo systems inc. a georgia based company and leading provider of enterprise asset management eam products and professional services . 2007 qad renamed its core product suite from mfg pro to qad enterprise applications . with the launch of qad enterprise applications 2007 qad pioneered hybrid deployment with the ability to deploy the application either on premises on appliance or on demand saas . 2008 qad launched a significant enhancement to its core suite with the release of the enterprise edition of qad enterprise applications . 2008 qad acquired fulltilt solutions product suite including perfect product suite an enterprise pim solution that addresses the growing need for product centric master data management mdm for internet enabled commerce . 2012 qad acquired cebos a provider of enterprise wide quality management and management system standard software and services . 2012 qad acquired dynasys one of the european providers of collaborative demand & supply chain planning solutions . dynasys provides business decision making software including forecasting planning optimizing and performance analysis . qad enterprise applications edit qad enterprise application is designed to streamline the management of manufacturing operations supply chains financials customers technology and business performance . 3 qad cloud erp edit qad cloud erp formerly known as qad on demand is the software as a service saas deployment option for qad enterprise applications . under this model qad provides individual instances of qad enterprise applications for each company . users simply connect via the internet or a private network . qad provides all of the it management for servers database and applications ; all customers do is use the application . new users and sites can be connected whenever and wherever required . qad s enterprise applications architecture allows customers to choose to deploy their systems in a blended configuration . in the blended deployment customers may elect to deploy to some of their sites using qad cloud erp integrated or not with their on premises solutions . this unique capability is useful for companies making structural changes such as mergers or acquisitions or who are strategically moving their it systems to the cloud . qad cloud erp is delivered in three standard editions general life sciences and automotive . 4 references edit qad corporate profile 1 archived copy . archived from the original on november 8 2010 . retrieved november 3 2010 . http www.qad.com on demand software external links edit official website qad cloud erp qad explore customer conference precision software a division of qad inc. 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