QAD, INFOMAN Forge Partnership
                                                    Philippine Star, C3-Networks
 - April 4, 2005
                                             
                        
                            
                     QAD Inc., a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturers, announced that Information Managers Inc. (Infoman) has become a QAD distributor and added QAD's manufacturing solution, the MFG / PRO, to its product portfolio.
                   
       
                      QAD solutions help manufacturers manage their core business processes. QAD's enterprise applications incorporate more than two decades of manufacturing expertise, enhanced by a team of global service professionals who help customers address their business needs and solve their challenges.      
                                    
                  The MFG / PRO eB2 software is a comprehensive supply chain-enabled enterprise solution that includes manufacturing, sales and distribution, and financial management applications within an open systems environment.      
       
                 QAD has significantly increased the functionality of MFG / PRO eB2, expanding QAD's ability to be a supplier of powerful, industry-specific e-business solutions.       
          
                  
               Additionally, a new Web-based user interface, QAD Desktop 2, expands the ability of users to integrate MFG / PRO eB2 into their business practices.
                         
                            
                                      
                Rapid installable, MFG / PRO eB2 provides single-site companies or multinational organizations with a fully integrated enterprise solution that sets new standards for connectivity, functionality and ease-of-use.
                         
       
                       MFG / PRO eB2 delivers quick results because it is built from the ground up to meet the needs of the industries QAD serves. Because of QAD's Q-Advantage implementation methodology, it has one of the fastest implementation records in the business.
                           
       
                  "QAD's proven MFG/PRO enterprise resource planning and supply chain management solution and our IT expertise make a winning combination that will let us better meet our customers' needs", said Bernard Yu, CEO of Infoman.
                           
       
                 "Our partnership with QAD allows us to offer a complete end-to-end solution for the manufacturing industries that complements our existing Progress solutions", he said.
                           
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