QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADA) (NASDAQ:QADB), a leading provider of cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions and services for global manufacturers, today announced the customer benefits of its strategy to provide a qualified IT infrastructure in the cloud to support life science customers’ software validation requirements.

Global life science manufacturers are required to adhere to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) specified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other global regulatory bodies to ensure products meet a required level of safety and efficacy. QAD Cloud ERP provides clients with a full-featured suite of enterprise applications designed to help them become an effective enterprise where every business process is working at peak efficiency and perfectly aligned with the organization’s strategic goals.

QAD Cloud ERP’s qualified infrastructure for life sciences:

  • Reduces time to validation by eliminating the need to qualify the core environment.
  • Reduces risk by operating in accordance with 18 regulatory-compliant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that ensure the IT infrastructure is in a demonstrable state of control.
  • Lowers overall total cost of ownership.
  • Speeds time to deployment by reducing the number of IT staff required to support the implementation.

“We are seeing tremendous growth in cloud deployments of our solutions in the life sciences industry,” stated Bart Reitter, director, QAD Life Sciences. “In response to that growth we are providing our customers with the documentation and software life-cycle support they require to meet the growing demand for innovative, safe and effective products that improve patients’ lives.”

Learn more about the QAD Cloud ERP qualified IT infrastructure.

About QAD – The Effective Enterprise

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ: QADA) (NASDAQ: QADB) is a leading provider of enterprise software and services designed for global manufacturing companies. For more than 30 years, QAD has provided global manufacturing companies with QAD Enterprise Applications, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that supports operational requirements, including financials, manufacturing, demand and supply chain planning, customer management, business intelligence and business process management. QAD Enterprise Applications is offered in flexible deployment models as on-premise software, in the cloud with QAD Cloud ERP or in a blended environment. With QAD, customers and partners in the automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, industrial products and life sciences industries can better align daily operations with their strategic goals to meet their vision of becoming more Effective Enterprises.

For more information about QAD, call +1 805-566-6000, visit www.qad.com.

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