QAD Inc. (Nasdaq:QADA) (Nasdaq:QADB), a leading provider of enterprise business software and services for global manufacturing companies, announced today that QAD President and Chairman of the Board Pam Lopker has been named one of the 2016 Women of M2M by Connected World magazine.

Honorees were selected for their enduring work, which includes taking extraordinary risks and breaking new technological ground for their respective products, services, and markets. A full list of winners, along with in-depth profiles of this year’s honorees, appears in the April/May 2016 issue of Connected World.

“I am honored to be included as one of Connected World’s 2016 Women of M2M,” said Lopker. “I am fascinated by the value being unlocked by manufacturers as they connect the machines on their shop floors to the Internet of Things. Our goal at QAD, not only through QAD Cloud ERP, but also through new services like QAD Automation Solutions, is to make the transition to machine-machine communication and the Internet of Things faster, simpler and less costly for our customers.”

Lopker founded QAD in 1979 with the primary intention of helping manufacturers leverage technology to operate more efficiently and to provide supply chain visibility, at a time when multiple disparate software solutions were required to run a manufacturing supply chain. Lopker realized that the industry needed an integrated solution that could address the critical needs of a manufacturer. She built software exclusively for the industry by combining her deep expertise in manufacturing, supply chain processes and software coding.

The 2016 WoM2M honorees will be acknowledged at a dinner celebration culminating the first annual meeting of The Peggy Smedley Institute, Monday, April 4 in San Francisco, Calif. The Peggy Smedley Institute, founded by Connected World editor Peggy Smedley, offers a full-day of education and networking on Internet of Things topics for enterprise leaders with an emphasis on smart cities, energy, transportation, mobility, retail, manufacturing and engineering.

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 35 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 in the cloud, on-premise, 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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About Connected World Magazine

Connected World is the business and technology publication that provides the intelligence industry titans need and the guidance consumers crave. It’s all about M2M and IoT. See connectedworld.com.

About The Peggy Smedley Institute

The Peggy Smedley Institute is about education and networking enterprise professionals within smart cities, energy, utilities, infrastructure, and manufacturing, and developing a contextual understanding of the IoT (Internet of Things). Sessions will focus on IoT, as it relates to the emergence of novel concepts in innovation, manufacturing, maintenance, repair, service, and so much more. Learn more at http://connectedworld.com/peggy-smedley-institute/.

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