Steve Lamb - QAD

QAD Enterprise Applications and Mobile Devices

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• Tablet sales expected to surge this year

• iPad to dominate the holiday• Forcast 63.6 M units. 264% jump

from last year• Apple accounts for 73% of tablets

sold• Apple delivers unified user

experience

Gartner: iPad to dominate

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• Google’s Android Predicted – 17% sales

• 3% bump from 2010• Tablet sales will hit 326.3 M by 2015• 45% credited to iPad

• http://usat.ly/qfpiva

Gartner: iPad to dominate

• 16.3 % already own an iPad

• 33.2 % plan to purchase in the next 6 months

• 59.8% plan to use it for work

Survey results of Mobile Employees

InfoWorld - 2010

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• Most popular device• News• Digital Publishing• Netbook sales are dropping• Higher conversion rate for

eCommerce• Adopted for commercial applications

Trends in Industry

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• Financial Services• Retail• Hospitals• All manner of field forces

• 50% of Fortune 100 are evaluating

Where do we see them?

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Where does QAD fit in?

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• iPads• Android O/S • Windows Compact Embedded 7

Types of devices (Tablets)

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Mobile Portal – native QAD BI App for iPad

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Mobile Portal – native QAD BI App for iPad

• Navigate BI dashboards while on the road- Navigate available dashboards- Consult BI charts- Zoom in on charts- Drill down into underlying charts

• Seamless experience between iPad and PC- Graphs content is identical on iPad or on Web

browser, providing a seamless experience when switching between iPad and PC

• Simplified for optimal mobile usability- Since mobile users have a typical different

usage pattern, iPad dashboards are simplified • Graphs only (no grids or other visual items)• No parameter bars

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• Mobile Collaboration- Users can view, browse and search the

collaboration forums and topics- Users can post own new topics or comment

on existing topics

• Seamless experience between iPad and PC- Collaboration Forums and topics are

identical on iPad or on Web browser, providing a seamless experience when switching between iPad and PC

Mobile Portal – native QAD BI App for iPad

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• Android Tablets / Phones- No native App- Android users can access

the standard BI portal in their web browsers if their Android device supports Flash

Mobile Portal – other platforms

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• iPhone & Blackberry- Currently NOT

supported- Future support to be

determined based on customer feedback

Mobile Portal – other platforms

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• VPN – Secure network• Citrix or Terminal Services• BI is in the Apple App store but you

will need BI on your environment

What is required to make this work

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Let’s take a look…..

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Steve Lamb – QADsfl@qad.com610-429-1758

Thank you