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The Definitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface

The Definitive 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
benefits of QAD Enterprise Applications.
QAD .NET UI provides:
• Improved user experience with QAD
Enterprise Applications
• Powerful customization
• Reduced training time
• Great integration with Microsoft Office
• Easy deployment and updates
Did You Know
Excel integration allows export of browses directly to Excel.

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.

The Definitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface
The QAD .NET User Interface: Make the Switch Today
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 productivity.
Human Engineered for
Maximum Results
QAD .NET UI makes QAD Enterprise
Applications more effective
than ever. With a consistent lookand-feel
and more control over
navigation and data viewing, the
QAD .NET UI delivers greater satisfaction
and better results.
QAD .NET UI uses Microsoft’s .NET
technology as the foundation for
this feature-rich user interface and
is human-engineered for usability
and flexibility. Within the
QAD .NET UI, transaction programs,
lookups and browses
are available as .NET screens,
with powerful capabilities.
Effective, Easy, Simple:
Functional Sophistication
QAD .NET UI improves user
experience, reduces customization
costs, provides increased
simplification, and with QAD .NET
UI Process Maps you can enjoy
greater compliance and reduced
errors. User Customization let’s you
control access whether you want
to control access to data by role,
configure screens by adding or
removing fields 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.
Workflows and automation help
eliminate non-value added steps
used in everyday functions and
with the new QAD .NET UI, users
learn processes faster. Stay compliant
with Enhanced Controls
and enforce segregation of duties
with roles-based security.
Did You Know
Supporting documents can be dragged and
dropped in the attachment area with .NET UI.

Operational
Metrics
Custom metric reports
present real time data
to the user.
Serves as a companion to
QAD Business Intelligence.
Data helps visualize
anomalies
Did You Know
.NET UI provides single click access to any next step operation.

The Definitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface
Benefits of QAD .NET User Interface (UI)
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 fields
to screens
•Validation can be associated
to fields
Greater Compliance and
Reduced Errors
• Process Maps connect business
processes to the software
• Operational Metrics highlight
anomalies
• Document attachments
remove ambiguity
Simplification - Configurable
screens remove complexity
• User defined menus
• User defined links
• Configurable browse layout
Reduced Customer Training Time
• Conforms to the familiar
Microsoft Office 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
Did You Know
Process Maps link a business process directly to the software.

Browses
Search criteria can
be saved
Easily drill down
Links to external resource
Advanced search
Did You Know
Favorites allow one click access to screens, browses, and collections.

The Definitive Guide to QAD .NET User Interface
The power of the browses, the filtering capabilities, as well as some of the reporting
that we’re 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.
Did You Know
Operational Metrics lets you develop custom metrics and thresholds.

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 fields to screens
Validation can be
associated to fields
Preview of modified
screens available
Uses the same template
logic implemented for
simplified screens
Did You Know
.NET UI allows you to tailor the browses for specific tasks.

Ready Now Program: Upgrade Now for No Cost
QAD Ready Now: Uplift to .NET UI
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 productivity.
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 customer’s 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
Did You Know
Configurable screens can be tailored to see what is needed for a user’s task.

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 fields 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
Configurable Screens
Admins can easily add fields to screens
Validation can be associated to fields
Preview of modified screens available
Uses the same template logic implemented
for Simplified Screens
Improved UI
Familiar metaphors
Document Attachment
Attach any type of file to a record via
drag and drop
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Did You Know
Operational Metrics help visualize anomalies.