QAD, a prominent information and communication technology (ICT) vendor, relies on a network of sales channel partners to sell and distribute its offerings across its customer base, without relying on direct sales. According to proprietary analysis in GlobalData’s QAD Partner Ecosystem Profile, the business process applications, cloud computing, and consulting services categories account for 77.4% of the total partner engagements, as of March 2024. Buy the profile here.Buy the profile here.

QAD Inc (QAD) provides cloud-based enterprise resource planning software solutions. The companys enterprise applications support the operational requirements of manufacturers in the areas of manufacturing, supply chain, customer management, service and support, analytics, business process management, and integration. Its portfolio also comprises software for quality management, supply chain management, global trade, and transportation execution, transportation management, and B2B interoperability. QAD serves diverse industries, including food and beverage, automotive, life sciences, consumer products, high technology, and industrial products. It markets and licenses products through a direct sales force across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. QAD is headquartered in Santa Barbra, California, the US.

As depicted in the chart above, QAD's partner engagements are focused on serving clients across North America, which accounted for 50.7% of their overall partner engagements, followed by Asia-Pacific with a share of 24%, according to GlobalData's report.

Construction, financial markets, and communications/service provider emerged as the top three industry verticals, that QAD is focusing on serving via its partners. These verticals together contributed 29.7% of the total vertical-specific partner engagements, with construction leading the partner engagement distribution with a share of 10.3%.

The table below covers prominent partners of QAD based on GlobalData's proprietary scoring framework, which analyzes partner engagements on multiple parameters including revenue band, employee band, partnership certification, partner vertical and geography focus, among others. The majority of QAD 's partners belong to the "Solution Partner (Implementation / Deployment)" application category.

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GlobalData’s Partner Network Database tracks partner ecosystem of IT vendors. The database offers granular details on official partners of the IT vendors spread across the geographies. This analysis considers only partners details that are sourced from company website, press releases, CXO commentary from the publicly available sources and excludes all terminated and rumoured partner deals.