Advisory and Quality Assurance Services

At QAD, we have a vision to assist every manufacturing company to perform at their best, and to become an ‘Effective Enterprise’. We define an Effective Enterprise as one where every business process is working at peak efficiency and perfectly aligned to the company’s strategic goals. The pursuit of this vision drives the products that we develop, and the approach we take when we engage with our customers.

The business processes and measures that companies strive to achieve in pursuit of the Effective Enterprise differ among companies. For any company to become an Effective Enterprise, it is important that they can define the best practices for their business processes, and measure the efficiency of each business process. To assist in this, QAD has developed solutions, services and metrics that encompass best practices, deliver clear measurement, and can be deployed, simply.

With QAD Advisory and Quality Assurance Services we can quickly evaluate key business & IT processes, identify areas to help customers reduce costs and maximize operating cash flow, with minimal disruption to your company’s business. QAD’s Quality Assurance Services provide a framework to review your current practices and looks for ways to improve these. QAD’s Advisory Services provides your organization best practices and a roadmap to their achievement while taking into account your organizational strategies and requirements.

Using industry-specific best practices, experience, and expertise our consultants will help guide and enable customers to work at peak efficiency, aligned with their strategic goals, thus making them a more effective enterprise.

Core Model Design helps customers to define a core model while putting an emphasis on the use of standard applications.

Custom Solution Development conveys the principles of non intrusive developments for both SE and EE versions of the application and advises on deployment and version control practices.

User Education Plan provides a framework for continuous end user education and assists in developing a program for training new resources and better manages knowledge attrition.

Test Plan Fundamentals advises on best practices for setting up test scenarios and conducting CRPs in order to ensure a successful go-live.

Measuring Project Impact utilizes our proven KPI Framework to provide assistance in the determination and measurement of KPIs to align the application usage with the necessary processes required to support the operation objectives.

Competence Center Development looks to assist customers in the definition and management of service levels for their user support organization and advises on the management and integrity of core models.

Disaster Recovery Service looks at solutions to facilitate disaster recovery and manage system outage risks based on the customer’s requirements.

Data Center Design Service provides an assessment of the architecture in place or plans for technology and infrastructure changes and upgrades.

Interface and Integration Strategy provides a review of planned integration upgrades as well as an assessment of the integration security, stability and performance.

Project Readiness Assessment in conjunction with project readiness assessments performs a risk review and provides mitigation plans for a customer’s intended project.

Implementation Method Assessment looks at the project management and overall methodology that a customer is intending to use.

Solution Design Assessment provides the customer with a review of the intended solution as well as the usage of standard applications and best practice processes.

Core Model Lifecycle Assessment focuses on the level of utilization of standard applications and processes as part of a core model and the intended migration of the underlying systems to newer ERP release.

System Availability Assessment reviews the customer’s system management practices and the overall technical integrity and stability.

System Performance Assessment puts a focus on a review of established performance requirements, SLAs and the potential performance impact of new functionality to be rolled out.

Go-Live Readiness Assessment provides a candid review of the business fit of the solution, the ability to meet the project objectives and the overall go-live risks.

Contact us today:

By Email: services@qad.com
By Request: Advisory and Quality Assurance Services

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