The Defnitive Guide to QAD .

NET User Interface

QAD .NET User Interface (UI) is a fresh, intuitive,
easy-to-use user interface that helps QAD
users improve productivity and maximize the
benefts of QAD Enterprise Applications.
QAD .NET UI provides:
Improved user experience with QAD
Enterprise Applications

Powerful customization

Reduced training time

Great integration with Microsoft Offce

Easy deployment and updates
Did You Know
Excel integration allows export of browses directly to Excel.
The Defnitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface
Process Maps
Living business process
documentation.
Links customer business
process directly to
the software.
Enjoy greater compliance
and reduced errors
Did You Know
With .NET UI links can be created to outside resources, like a Web site.
Did You Know
Supporting documents can be dragged and
dropped in the attachment area with .NET UI.
Are you ready to make the switch
to QAD .NET User Interface (UI),
the user interface for QAD Enter-
prise Applications? Start taking
advantage of the power of QAD
.NET UI to simplify your life and
increase productivity.
Human Engineered for
Maximum Results
QAD .NET UI makes QAD Enter-
prise Applications more effective
than ever. With a consistent look-
and-feel and more control over
navigation and data viewing, the
QAD .NET UI delivers greater satis-
faction and better results.
QAD .NET UI uses Microsofts .NET
technology as the foundation for
this feature-rich user interface and
is human-engineered for usability
and fexibility. Within the
QAD .NET UI, transaction pro-
grams, lookups and browses
are available as .NET screens,
with powerful capabilities.
Effective, Easy, Simple:
Functional Sophistication
QAD .NET UI improves user
experience, reduces customiza-
tion costs, provides increased
simplifcation, and with QAD .NET
UI Process Maps you can enjoy
greater compliance and reduced
errors. User Customization lets you
control access whether you want
to control access to data by role,
confgure screens by adding or
removing felds or rearrange
windows within a workspace
to match business process
or preference.
Easily manage accounting and
reporting functions with support
for multi-company, multi-currency,
and multi-tax capabilities at the
local, regional, and global level.
Workfows and automation help
eliminate non-value added steps
used in everyday functions and
with the new QAD .NET UI, users
learn processes faster. Stay com-
pliant with Enhanced Controls
and enforce segregation of duties
with roles-based security.
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The Defnitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface
Did You Know
Operational
Metrics
Custom metric reports
present real time data
to the user.
Serves as a companion to
QAD Business Intelligence.
Data helps visualize
anomalies
.NET UI provides single click access to any next step operation.
Did You Know
Process Maps link a business process directly to the software.
Enhanced Navigation
One click between screens
Living business process
documentation directs
user in the system through
Process Maps
Favorites provide quick access
to frequently used screens
Reduced Customization Costs
Self services reporting through
Browses and Collections
Admin can easily add felds
to screens
Validation can be associated
to felds
Greater Compliance and
Reduced Errors
Process Maps connect business
processes to the software
Operational Metrics highlight
anomalies
Document attachments
remove ambiguity
Simplifcation - Confgurable
screens remove complexity
User defned menus
User defned links
Confgurable browse layout
Reduced Customer Training Time
Conforms to the familiar
Microsoft Offce conventions,
reducing training time
Run terminal within the .NET UI,
based on user preference
Easier Access to Information
Browses provide persistent
pivotable like functionality
and formatting
Collections create meaning-
ful links between parent and
child screens
Export to Excel provides easy
export for additional analysis
Benefts of QAD .NET User Interface (UI)
The Defnitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface
Did You Know
Favorites allow one click access to screens, browses, and collections.
Browses
Search criteria can
be saved

Easily drill down
Links to external resource
Advanced search
Operational Metrics lets you develop custom metrics and thresholds.
The power of the browses, the fltering capabilities, as well as some of the reporting
that were looking forward to doing, are going to be big pluses in QAD 2010.
Tom Nickel, IT Manager, Raypak Inc.

We like the fact that you can open multiple windows within the .Net UI, multiple tabs,
and have several different maintenance programs, browses and report programs
open at the same time.
David Leach, Director of ERP Business Systems, Furniture Values International
Our users were impressed with the smoothness going from one process to another.
Ian Kyle, Manufacturing Systems Support, Lush Cosmetics, Inc.

The Defnitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface
Did You Know
.NET UI allows you to tailor the browses for specifc tasks.
Excel Integration
Export browses directly to Excel
Formatted like browse
results page
Search conditions passed in
separate Excel worksheet
Configurable Screens
Administrators can easily
add felds to screens

Validation can be
associated to felds

Preview of modifed
screens available

Uses the same template
logic implemented for
simplifed screens
Did You Know
Confgurable screens can be tailored to see what is needed for a users task.
Did You Know
Are you ready to make the switch to QAD .NET User
Interface (UI), the user interface for QAD Enterprise
Applications? Start taking advantage of the power
of QAD .NET UI to simplify your life and increase pro-
ductivity.
Reduced Cost
Offered at $0 cost to customers on maintenance
Reduced Time
System Assessment Questionnaire, 1 day install
per environment, 5 days System Administrator /
Users training
Reduced Risk
The application is not intrusive to the current
installation of MFG/Pro
Provides a stepping stone to a full upgrade
QAD trains your users and customization and
personalization complete
What the program includes:
System Assessment:
Customer questionnaire on hardware,
deployment architecture, 3rd party products
and customization

Software:
Pre-tested and validated software (.NET UI
version 2.9) for the customers MFG/PRO
version and service pack
Installation:
Remote installation to development and
production systems by QAD services
Training Material:
On Demand training materials provided by
QAD for system administrators and users
Support:
Standard support for customers on maintenance
Ready Now Program: Upgrade Now for No Cost
QAD Ready Now: Uplift to .NET UI
Operational Metrics help visualize anomalies.
Did You Know
QAD Ready Now!: Uplift .NET UI Capabilities
Process Maps
Living business process documentation

Links customer business process directly
to the software
Operational Metrics
Develop custom metrics and thresholds
Visualize anomalies
Browses
Search criteria can be saved
Ability to drill down
Links to external resource
Advanced searches
Favorites
One click access to screens, browses,
and collections
Collections
Group related browses and programs
Main browse drives the felds selected
in the other browses and programs
Allow data to be automatically retrieved,
searched on, and carried when navigating
from one collection function to another
Excel integration
Export browses directly to Excel
Formatted like browse results page
Search conditions passed in separate
excel worksheet
Confgurable Screens
Admins can easily add felds to screens
Validation can be associated to felds
Preview of modifed screens available
Uses the same template logic implemented
for Simplifed Screens
Improved UI
Familiar metaphors
Document Attachment
Attach any type of fle to a record via
drag and drop
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