User Guide: QAD .NET User Interface - QAD.com

6 User Guide — QAD .NET User Interface
Introduction
QAD products are designed for many types of users with a wide variety of
UI needs: users in the back office need UIs that help them process
electronic paperwork efficiently; users in the front office want dashboard
views of data; and planners for the shop floor need UIs that let them see
how best to juggle tasks and machine assignments.
To support these needs, a UI needs to have the following qualities:
Usability. The UI should enable users to do their jobs quickly and
effectively through a consistent and intuitive model that is convenient
and complete.
Flexibility. Since a single UI cannot anticipate and match each
individual user’s needs, UI elements need to be easily adjusted for
each user or group of users who share a similar role and who do a
similar set of tasks.
Performance. A UI should let users do their jobs quickly and
efficiently.
Ease of deployment and update. Because UI software must often
reside on each client machine, deployment of updates can represent a
major effort for customers. This process needs to be as smooth and
non-invasive as possible.
The QAD .NET UI provides a common framework for multiple QAD
applications. This framework—based on Microsoft .NET technology—
has excellent performance and provides best-practice usability and
deployment features, as well as extensive ways for users to adapt the UI
to their preferred work style.
Since the UI is based on Microsoft .NET technology, it incorporates
familiar UI metaphors, reducing the need for users to learn how to
navigate QAD applications.