QAD RD Hackathon Dr Thomas Blumer QAD Director

QAD R&D Hackathon Dr. Thomas Blumer QAD Director Knowledge Management

Agenda • • Hackathon Process Background Information Recorded Demos Q&A

Hackathon Process 3

Hackathon • A hackathon is a gathering where programmers collaboratively code in an extreme manner over a short period of time. While working on a particular project, the idea is for each developer to have the ability and freedom to work on whatever he/she wants. 4

HACKATHON 2015 • 3 days, all of R&D • Theme : Focus on Mobile Applications • A moment to step away from the current mainstream work and to bolster creativity and innovation - Creative ideas – Bottom-up vision vs Top-down - Create showcase mobile apps, but not to be released as standard product 5

“Mobile” and “Internet of Things” into Channel Islands 6

2015 Hackathon All Hands Call Timeline

Frameworks choice between : • QAD-provided environment - QRA + Anacapa APIs + Progress Telerik framework • Own choice (no QAD support) - Any other framework of choice - All other QAD APIs • SI APIs, EAM APIs, BLF APIs, … - (or emulate any API) 8

Participation - R&D (31 teams) - Services GRC (1 team) - Maintenance T 3 (2 teams) - Marketing (1 team) - Dyna. Sys (1 team)

Enthusiasm – blog, pictures and videos https: //qdn. qad. com/display/RDW/2015/10 10

Great Projects ! 11

Mobile Usage • We saw projects leveraging - Camera Bar Code reader Voice Location services Device contacts Touch 12

Types of Projects Functional Technical • • Public clouds • REST API • Push notification Connect to CI Sales Orders Requisitions TAM Serialization Manufacturing Work Orders • Financials • EAM 13

Project Overview (eye-chart) • Automate mobile functional testing • Automate mobile performance testing • BPM Manager Approval • Deploy QAD apps with Docker and use of public cloud • Deployment Event Tracking/Subscription • Eclipse plugin • Enterprise App License Status • Expose REST APIs • Fast query service to support browses, metrics and KPIs • Foundation Hackathon Support Recap • Geolocation Service for CRM Contacts • Hook up QAD to an existing Mobile App • Inbound Material Records • Interactive contacts • Keeping data on client up-to-date • Legal Document Status • Maintenance Records • • • • • • Manager Approvals Managers Alerts and Exceptions Managers Metrics and Dashboards Mobile Inbox Mobile requisition entry Mobile TAM Promotions Offline data usage Product Image Capture and View Quality Shop Floor Records Sales Rep Available to Promise Sales Rep Customer Information Sales Rep Mobile Sales Order Security admin app Serialized Pack View Shop Floor Time and Attendance Shop Floor Work Center Summary Supply Chain Geo-Coding and Visualization Visual Production Line Scheduling Hook up QAD to an existing Mobile App 14

Hackathon 2015 Best App Using QRA & Telerik DEVELOPERS Winner ARRESTED Phone app • Telerik Platform • Anacapa 15

Hackathon 2015 Best App Non-QRA/Telerik Framework Winner TEAM TIGER Phone app - We. Chat platform - Anacapa 16

Background Information 17

Slack

Some Metrics

Challenges • Not properly assessing the background of attendees - Background varied quite a bit (from no HTML to Pro level) - Required teaching basic Mobile and basic HTML 5 concepts - Initial Webinar was not as helpful as anticipated • Start-up documentation somewhat unclear • Extra complication in trying to reach on-premise resources with cloud tools

Formula for Repeatability? Support from Progress is important, but as important is Social Dynamics at QAD • Motivation from CTO (Tony) • Available time - Fairly expensive for QAD in developer hours - Fairly cheap for Progress – 1 -2 close to 100% time, 1 -2 50%, many <20% Winning Arrangement: • Face-to-face for the teams, w/ social motivation - They already know each other; they know how to work together • But virtual for mentors

Takeaways • • Tested and chosen Progress Telerik Platform Great support from Progress! Set the mobile strategy Tested the open API infrastructure 23

Demos 24

Demos • • • Arrested Developers 5: 00 Smooth Operators 4: 30 Hackateam 6: 00 Dyna. Sys 5: 30 Antwerp 5: 30 Marketing’s spin 5: 00

Q&A Dr. Thomas Blumer Director Knowledge Management tfb@qad. com 26