CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 June 2008
Product News
QAD to Resell PTC® PLM Solutions to Customers in Automotive, High Technology, Industrial Equipment and Life Science Industries
QAD Inc. announced it has joined the PTC Channel Advantage™ Program, enabling QAD to deliver the PTC product suite to its customers. The partnership is especially significant for manufacturers who already use QAD Solutions to run their global business processes and would like to further improve efficiencies around product development by adding complementary PLM solutions.
QAD Enterprise Applications, a comprehensive set of integrated business solutions designed for a new generation of software users, are already installed at some 6,100 customer sites in more than 90 countries. As a PTC Channel Advantage Reseller, QAD will now be able to introduce the PTC Product Development System (PDS) to customers in the Automotive, High Technology, Industrial Equipment and Life Sciences industries.. The integral PTC PDS is comprised of Pro/ENGINEER®, Windchill®, Arbortext®, Mathcad®, and ProductView™ products, which have been designed to work together to help companies optimize their product development processes.
“By combining QAD’s enterprise software expertise with PTC’s leading product development solutions and expertise, our customers can gain significant competitive advantage through this partnership,” said Pam Lopker, president and founder of QAD. “We view it as another important step toward realizing our vision for the Perfect Lean Market for manufacturing – a frictionless supply chain where efficiency is optimized and waste is eliminated.”
This partnership will offer a “one-stop-shop” for QAD customer ERP and PLM needs. With the addition of PTC product development solutions to their existing QAD implementation, customers will be able to realize shortened project cycles, significant cost savings, improved product quality, increased customer satisfaction and enhanced market positioning. QAD’s strong international presence, deep knowledge of manufacturing industry processes, and its ability to now also provide customers in its targeted vertical markets with a comprehensive PLM solution that complements their enterprise manufacturing solutions, is a prime advantage of this partnership.
”PTC recently announced its plans to broaden its reseller network to expand its reach into manufacturing companies of all sizes around the globe,” said Paul J. Cunningham, executive vice president, Worldwide Sales, PTC. “We believe that customers who choose to use QAD Enterprise Applications in conjunction with PTC’s product development solutions will benefit from increases in overall product development efficiencies and as a result improve time-to-market, control costs and drive competitive differentiation.”
By way of this agreement, QAD becomes a “Total Solution Provider” for PTC solutions. Together, QAD and PTC can provide strategic business solutions, data management services, enterprise services, training and conversion services to customers worldwide. PTC’s Channel Advantage Program was recently chosen out of a multitude of vendor programs by VARBusiness Magazine to be named a 5-Star Partner Program. This award recognizes vendor partner programs which have the most comprehensive offerings for their markets and technology sets.
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