TailorPro:

QAD & Progress Modernization

From just two applications of TailorPro, our projected one year total cost avoidance is over $63,000.

- Atlantis Plastics

Do Your Business Systems Really Meet Your Business Needs?

Our customers say “Yes!” They use TailorPro® to achieve the new and changing functionality in their systems that their business requires. The benefits of TailoPro are significant and long-term: cost savings, improved internal control and added value as your own systems better serve your business needs.

TailorPro Makes Your System More Effective

Adaptation possibilities are unlimited. Use the tools to insert or capture critical information in a process. Validate the sales order details based on unique business rules. Generate a warning or error when an inventory transfer violates an internal policy. Display training information the first three times a user executes a transaction. Our development tools have been used worldwide with resounding success for adapting QAD® and other Progress Software® (Progress) applications to meet customers’ unique business needs.

Get Integration Insight

TailorPro has proven versatility for resolving business needs. We love the challenge of new ways to apply it to new systems. Let us show you how easy it can be to integrate your unique business requirements into the natural flow of your business systems. Request a demo to find out how TailorPro can meet your business needs.

Progress Users: As there are many varied Progress applications, we suggest that interested Progress users simply request a demo.

QAD users: Read more below about the value of achieving a better fit between your business system and your enterprise requirements with the implementation of TailorPro.

 About TailorPro

“Our experience with ProStar has been excellent...listened to the needs from not only a software perspective, but a business perspective and helped us design what we needed to do to make it work for us."

- Argon Medical

TailorPro® lets your business define your system software, not the other way around. You know your business is unique. We know your system software must adapt to the unique behaviors that support your business. Unfortunately, most software systems are designed the other way around – in order to fit your work to their design, they limit the processes and functions of how your business can be organized. If you wanted to use QAD®, you had to do it the QAD way. Not anymore.

TailorPro adapts QAD and other Progress applications to your unique and changing business requirements, with no changes to QAD source code, with the cost-effective Developers' Toolkit. Get expert advice for systems integration.

Non-Invasive Customizations

The more accurately your business system matches your business processes, the more effectively everyone can use the system to achieve critical objectives. Every business performs standard tasks in slightly different ways, from order entry to pricing to shipping. Also adding to the challenge, these unique procedures change over time. No standard package can meet every customer’s needs - you need a customized system.

Prior methods:

  • Required intrusive modifications to the core application software and database.

  • Expensive to perform the first time.

  • Force “version lock” and hinder application of service packs and upgrades.

  • Must be re-done even to apply a software patch.

Not anymore! With TailorPro, you are now able to enhance and adapt an application to match existing processes without creating invasive and costly customizations.

TailorPro enables you to handle your changing business needs on an ongoing basis by modifying the screens, business rules and data structures of the application; without any modification to source code or to the production database. Changes using TailorPro can be done in-house or by our Services team in a way that is both efficient and cost effective.

Get what you need.

TailorPro is more than an incremental improvement in methodology. With our adaptation engine the process shifts from “What will IT let us do?” to “What makes business sense for us to do?”

With TailorPro you really can have Your System, Your Way.

Want to see it work for you? We love to give demos of solutions in action! Challenge us to show you how TailorPro is relevant for your business: Get your TailorPro demo today.

 QAD Solutions

Is your QAD® as effective as possible? The majority of TailorPro® customers use our tools in a QAD environment, successfully using standard “vanilla” QAD applications to adapt to their business’s unique and changing requirements. Every QAD customer can benefit from the solutions to this technology: see what our customers have to say.

TailorPro works seamlessly with all of the QAD versions and user interfaces, including SE and EE, from ChUI and GUI to Desktop and .Net UI.

You make the rules.

TailorPro’s context-sensitive implementation allows various behaviors to be turned on or off based on your specific needs. These adaptations include support for the user’s language requirements. Any language supported by Progress can be used within TailorPro.

Common TailorPro adaptations that leverage standard QAD more effectively:

  • Change surcharges at time of shipment.

  • Integration of data from external systems to new processes.

  • Controls to implement business policies and procedures.

  • Insert or capture critical information in a process.

  • Validate sales order details based on unique business rules.

  • Generate a warning or error when an inventory transfer violates an internal policy.

  • Display training information the first time a user executes a transaction.

QAD support & upgrades

TailorPro’s non-invasive customizations do not hinder the application of patches, service packs, and upgrades. They reside entirely outside the QAD source code and database schema, and they can be easily and individually turned on and off while the upgrade is tested.

Our customers experience:

  • More clarity and speed with support interactions.

  • Less anxiety and concern that a customization is at the root of a system problem.

  • The freedom of no longer being stranded on aging versions.

Get better at what matters®!

Join the TailorPro customers who are already adapting their standard QAD implementation to meet their business requirements and users’ needs. Click here to get your customized TailorPro demo.

 Benefits of TailorPro

Rapid payback on investment in TailorPro with initial application. Further upgrades will not require changes to the TailorPro solutions. - NetShape Technologies

Do you want to maximize your IT budget? Of course you do. And we know it – any investment has to be justified in terms of what it delivers for the cost. Most software ROI (return on investment) is calculated in the 1½ to 3 year time frame. Our customers typically measure their ROI for TailorPro® in weeks to single digit months.

The initial costs for TailorPro are low, the development times are rapid, and delivery is straightforward. Learn what we can do for you.

Business benefits of TailorPro:

  • Get your unique business needs met.

  • Define your solutions away from, “What can IT do?”, into, “What makes business sense to do?”

  • Increase revenue with the adaptations themselves.

  • Save time and eliminate confusion with simplified business processes.

  • Improve compliance with enforced procedures throughout your organization.

  • Get easier management with standardized and validated data entry in the ways your company requires.

  • Improve customer interactions by making additional data available during transactions.

  • ROI is extremely efficient, most of our customers break even in 1-6 months. Get going right away with TailorPro today.

IT benefits of TailorPro:

  • Developers often deliver TailorPro adaptations in less than 25% of the time required by traditional customization methods. That’s what our customers tell us!

  • Simplified compliance with IT audit requirements; adaptations are self-documenting and context sensitive.

  • Easy patching and upgrading to new versions of QAD® and other Progress applications, because TailorPro doesn't require the discovery and re-implementation of complex or embedded customizations.

  • Save time with upgrades of applications like QAD, when done with TailorPro they take a fraction of the effort of upgrades done by means other than TailorPro.

  • Adaptations can be easily turned on and off, simplifying troubleshooting and vendor support. In our thirteen years of providing TailorPro, we have never had a failure of a TailorPro adaptation after testing and release to production.

Savings are at your doorstep.

The best benefit by far is that rather than struggle just to maintain customizations that are already deployed, all this frees up IT resources . With these additional resources, IT can better serve users and better meet your organization’s objectives. Find out today how your organization can profit from TailorPro.