Manufacturing Industry
Purity of heart is to will one thing.(Up front)
Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2005 by Parker, Kevin
Rick Russell is CIO at Swiss-owned medical-device maker Medela's operations in McHenry, Ill. He says the site not too long ago ripped out a just-installed Tier 1 enterprise system and replaced it with one from QAD. The main reason for this tremendous turn of events, says Russell, was that the consultants that installed the Tier 1 system weren't up to the task, at least in part because of its complexity.
Enterprise vendors used to focus their efforts on selling licenses, leaving the more mundane business of implementation to systems integrators or consultants. When the Internet bubble burst and license revenue thinned, many vendors threw themselves back into the services arena. QAD, which in its 2005 fiscal year had revenues of about $230 million, is no...
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