IFS AB is a global enterprise software company headquartered in Linkping, Sweden, with 2700 employees at offices all over the world. Based in Sweden, it maintains development centrers in Sweden, Sri Lanka and Poland while operating as a multinational corporation through subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific. IFS focuses on four core strategic processes: service & asset management, manufacturing, supply chain and projects. IFS develops, supplies, and implements IFS Applications,
QAD is a software company that provides Enterprise Resource Planning software to manufacturing companies around the world. The company's product suite is called QAD Enterprise Applications. QAD Cloud ERP is the software as a service or cloud computing model of QAD's product suite. QAD sells its products and services to companies in six main manufacturing industries: automotive, consumer products, high technology, food and beverage, industrial equipment and life sciences. As of December 2013, QAD software is in use at 5,300 manufacturing sites in more than 95 countries.
