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TEAMWORK 2017 – REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!! 4

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QAD PARTNER PORTAL 5

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Fiscal 2018 Second Quarter Financial Results 6

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Coming Soon: 80 More Reasons Why QAD QMS is a Great Fit for Automotive 6

Industry Diagrams: More of Them and Easier to Access 7

Automotive Newsletter 7

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COMPETITIVE BITS 16

C-Bit: SAP Updates its S/4HANA Cloud – Focus on Manufacturing and Globalization 16

Despite the enhancements to S/4HANA Cloud Manufacturing, the cloud version continues to trail the more full-featured on-premise offering. We should expect SAP to continue to enhance the cloud version several times per year (4 times seems likely) until it catches up with the on-premise version. The next planned update is in November.  17

SAP also cited expansion to globalization capabilities of S/4HANA Cloud, adding subsidiary support for financial reporting, inventory management and production. It also added Sweden and Ireland in terms of regulatory support, 5 new languages taking the count to 25 countries and 15 languages. It also announced a new SAP Cloud data center in Japan. 17

C-Bit: Oracle Announces New Supply Chain and Other Cloud Capabilities 17

C-Bit: Microsoft and Oracle Talk Blockchain Strategies and Plans 17

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