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QAD Announces Initial Sponsors for 2016 Explore Customer Conference

December 10, 2015 8:01 AM EST

Progress becomes first Platinum sponsor at QAD’s largest conference

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- QAD Inc. (Nasdaq: QADA) (Nasdaq: QADB), a leading provider of enterprise business software and services for global manufacturing companies, announced today that Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) has become the first Platinum sponsor of QAD Explore 2016. Progress, which was named QAD’s Technology Partner of the Year at Explore 2015, joins Gold sponsor Eagle Consulting & Development Inc., Silver sponsors Factivity Inc., Avalara and ACOM Solutions Inc., and Bronze sponsor Minisoft Inc. as the first companies to sign sponsorship agreements for this year’s event.

“QAD has been an instrumental Progress partner for 30 years, and each year we look forward to participating in Explore,” said Jerry Rulli, Chief Operating Officer, Progress. “The event enables us to hear from customers firsthand about what they’re doing today and where they’re heading tomorrow. The value of this insight cannot be overstated, especially given the rate of change in today’s fast-paced world. We wouldn’t miss it.”

QAD Explore 2016 will take place May 2-5, 2016 at the Hilton Chicago in downtown Chicago. Customers, sponsors, and other members of the QAD community will come together for a week of informative sessions, hands-on training and industry-specific presentations. Attendees will hear from over 70 speakers, including QAD executives and customers, and choose from an extensive agenda of more than 45 workshops and training classes.

Explore 2016 offers five sponsorship levels: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Wireless. Each level of sponsorship, except Wireless, includes a booth at the Explore Solutions Expo, where QAD customers, sponsors and executives network throughout the event. Examples of sponsorship benefits include pre-event blogging, on-site solution demonstrations, event receptions and dinners, depending on the level of sponsorship. The Wireless sponsor provides wireless connectivity for customers at the event.

“Explore is our largest conference of the year and the perfect place to learn about QAD and meet the members of our QAD ecosystem,” said Pam Lopker, President and Chairman of the Board, QAD. “Explore sponsorship provides access to a venue where sponsors can network and form relationships with customers and other QAD partners while they visit your booth and learn more about your products, services and solutions.”

For more information about sponsorship at QAD Explore 2016, please visit: Explore or email: [email protected]. For the latest updates on QAD Explore 2016, follow @QAD_Community on Twitter and look for #QADExplore 2016.

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.

“QAD” is a registered trademark of QAD Inc. All other products or company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Note to Investors: This press release contains certain forward-looking statements made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding projections of revenue, income and loss, capital expenditures, plans and objectives of management regarding the Company’s business, future economic performance or any of the assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are based on the company’s current expectations. Words such as “expects,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “could,” “will likely result,” “estimates,” “intends,” “may,” “projects,” “should,” “would,” “might,” “plan” and variations of these words and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. A number of risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to: risks associated with our cloud service offerings, such as defects and disruptions in our services, our ability to properly manage our cloud service offerings, our reliance on third-party hosting and other service providers, and our exposure to liability and loss from security breaches; demand for the company’s products, including cloud service, licenses, services and maintenance; pressure to make concessions on our pricing and changes in our pricing models; protection of our intellectual property; dependence on third-party suppliers and other third-party relationships, such as sales, services and marketing channels; changes in our revenue, earnings, operating expenses and margins; the reliability of our financial forecasts and estimates of the costs and benefits of transactions; the ability to leverage changes in technology; defects in our software products and services; third-party opinions about the company; competition in our industry; the ability to recruit and retain key personnel; delays in sales; timely and effective integration of newly acquired businesses; economic conditions in our vertical markets and worldwide; exchange rate fluctuations; and the global political environment. For a more detailed description of the risk factors associated with the company and factors that may affect our forward-looking statements, please refer to the company’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and, in particular, the section entitled “Risk Factors” therein, and in other periodic reports the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission thereafter. Management does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements except as required by law.

QAD Inc.
Scott Matulis, 818-451-8918
Public Relations
[email protected]
or
Evan Quinn, 617-869-7335
Analyst Relations
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Source: QAD Inc.



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