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Direction For the Future

Tony Winter – Chief Technology Officer, QAD, & Brandon Gibbs – Technical Account Mgr for Strategic Accounts, Progress Software

QAD & Progress

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The following is intended to outline QAD’s general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, functional capabilities, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functional capabilities described for QAD’s products remains at the sole discretion of QAD.

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QAD & Progress Direction For the Future

Business Making Progress


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• 30 years of Experience- NASDAQ: PRGS- Headquarters: Bedford, MA- Customer Sites: Over 140,000- Offices: 90

Worldwide- Revenue: $530M +- Employees: 1800+ - Founded: November 1981

• Global Presence- Deployed in 175

countries worldwide

Progress Software Snapshot


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• Progress community $5B total annual revenue

• 5 Million users worldwide• 1,500 Partners deliver 5,000 unique

business applications• VAR Business 5-star rating for partner

program• PSC and its application partners add 600K

new users each year

Progress Customer & Partner Base


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• 60% of Fortune 500 manufacturers use Progress technology

• Progress serves the leaders in many markets- 4 out of 5 of the world’s largest in electronics- 3 out of 4 of the world’s largest in medical- 4 out of 5 of the world’s largest in beverage- 2 out of 4 of world's largest in food- 16 out of 25 of the world’s largest auto suppliers

• Over 250 SaaS Providers using Progress technologies today to deploy, manage or integrate over 700 SaaS applications

Progress Customer & Partner Base


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• Partners for over 27 years• Progress and QAD product road maps are

very closely aligned• QAD continues to take advantage of new

Progress technologies• Thank you for your loyalty and business!

Progress & QAD


Flexible

Open

Reliable

Scalable

QAD’s Requirements for a Technology Platform


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Auditing via Enhanced Controls updatePerformance w/Type II areas

Via the Database…

Via the Servers…

AppSvr is Business Services Layer for entire appBackend database options via DataServers

OpenClient used to support .NET UI and QXtendWebSpeed in Customer Self Service (CSS) &

Manufacturing

Via the Clients…

OE Architect for development productivity

Via the IDE…


QAD & Progress Deliver Business Value

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Core Business Logic for QAD EEOOABL with QXtend

Client Principle Object with Auditing

Via the ABL…

37 and counting

Via Platform Support…

OE Replication used to protect On Demand customers

Via Data Management / Replication Tools…

ODBC access for Analytics and Service & Support

Via SQL Compliance…

Interoperates with QXtend

Via Sonic Enterprise Service Bus …


QAD & Progress Deliver Business Value

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Continuously anticipate problematic events and re-prioritize the supply chain to optimize product delivery

Investigate potentially fraudulent activity while it’s happening and prevent it from spreading

Dynamically up-sell based on customer activity, context and location

…organizations need to improve their overall situational awareness…Gartner calls this “Operational Responsiveness” …


The New Imperative: Not What is Happening, But What Will Happen?

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Continuous Business Process

Improvement

Immediate Sense-and-

Respond

Real-time Business Visibility

Continuously improve your business’

Operational Responsiveness


Progress Delivers Operational Responsiveness

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• OpenEdge is the leading application platform for simplifying the delivery of responsive business applications in the cloud

OpenEdge: Our Vision


Agility

Process improvement

Visibility

Business empowerment

Easier customization of applications

More use cases

Reduced cost of development

Modernization of existing applications

End users’ requirements Developers’ requirements


The New Requirements of Business Applications

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The New Business Application Architecture


To build business process applications, a business process-enabled application development platform is needed.

Business Process ApplicationTraditional Application

DBMS

Application

DBMS

Application

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What is a Business Process?


Metrics & Measurements

Workflow Description

Business Rules

InformationPeople and Systems

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QAD & Progress Partnering to Utilize the Progress Savvion BPM for You


BPABusiness Process

Analyses

Business Analysts

BPEBusiness Process

Execution

Application Developers

BPIBusiness Process

Improvement

Business Managers

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QAD Visions Increase Responsiveness and Reduce Costs


Service & Support

Shipping

CSR

Customers

Operational Responsiveness with OE BPM


OpenEdgeRobust DBMS and business language for automating steps in business processes

Savvion BPM SuiteLeading BPM suite for defining, executing and monitoring business processes

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OpenEdge BPMEnabling the development of business process applications

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QAD & OpenEdge BPMApplication Integration

Presentation Layer

Services Layer

Business Layer

Data Layer

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• First to market with business process-enabled application development platform

• Integration with OpenEdge

• Built on market-leading Savvion BPM technology

• Ability to enhance existing OpenEdge

• Aligns with QAD’s vision of connecting people and process

Why OpenEdge BPM & QAD?


• Out-of-box adapters- Database integration- Web services

integration- JMS integration- Email integration- QAD integration- SAP integration- Documentum

integration- Microsoft Office- Progress Actional- Progress Apama- Progress Sonic

• Adapter framework

Existing Systems Can Be Modernized Into Business Process Applications


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• Progress is investing heavily into OpenEdge• Progress & QAD partnership is as strong as

ever• Progress’ investments into innovative

technologies continue to bring value to QAD and their customers

• The future is bright!

Summary


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Metrics Affected


Benefits

Maximize use of existing capital investment, with better response time

Eliminate non-value add process steps

Improve communication with the entire supply chain

Anticipate problems to improve responses

Better user adoption

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• Attend General Session - QAD Technology Foundation and Interoperability - Wednesday at 9:00 AM - Speaker: Tony Winter

Next Steps


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• Tony Winter [email protected]• Brandon Gibbs [email protected]

Questions & Answers


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