New Software Provides Enhanced On-Demand Capabilities Along with Added Functionality Manufacturers Require in Driving Toward the ‘Perfect Lean Market’

CARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QAD Inc. (NASDAQ: QADI), a leading provider of enterprise software and services for global manufacturers, today announced general availability of QAD Enterprise Applications 2007 (QAD 2007), an enhanced version of its flagship enterprise software formerly known as MFG/PRO with functionality that addresses the needs of single-site and multinational organizations.

Leading Asset Lifecycle Management Functionality Gives Customers 360-degree View of Asset Intensive Operations

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., In order to create sophisticated, condition-based maintenance strategies and operations, and eliminate excess and obsolete spare parts inventory, customers around the world have successfully implemented Oracle(r) Enterprise Asset Management. Organizations including Hanover Compressor Company, MTR Corporation Limited, Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., POSCO and Simmons Foods have been able to increase business efficiencies, streamline spare parts management, improve compliance and safety practices and gain a complete, enterprise-wide view of their asset-driven operations with Oracle. 

CHAMPS LOTO is Designed to Automate and Simplify Complex Lockout /Tagout Processes and Transform Any CMMS/EAM into a Full Blown Integrated Safety Management System

CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CHAMPS Software, Inc., a leading developer of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems/ Enterprise Asset Management (CMMS/ EAM) solutions, today announced the availability of its newest and most comprehensive Lockout/Tagout system, CHAMPS LOTO. The system is designed to provide integrated safety management functionality for the entire spectrum of operations and maintenance organizations involved in locking and tagging of equipment.

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Impress Software today announced that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has chosen its Impress for GIS packaged integration application as part of a strategic Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) initiative. Impress for GIS was selected to synchronize PG&E’s asset data in SAP with geo-data in its ESRI and Miner & Miner geographic information systems (GIS). Once the implementation is completed, PG&E expects to have approximately 10,000 users leveraging Impress for GIS.