Solving Enterprise Problems: The Fully-integrated Solution of IQMS
P.J. Jakovljevic - April 6, 2005

Fully-integrated Plant-level Solution

Superficially, there appears to be little to distinguish IQMS, a small, quiet, privately-held company, from other lower-end enterprise application competitors. Its global presence, annual revenue, profile, and even its products may appear to have features akin, if not alike to its competitors. However, along with targeting a niche market of repetitive manufacturing, particularly for the injection plastics molding/extruding and rubber industries, this Paso Robles, California (US) company has other notable features. In particular, what may be true distinguishing is that IQMS offers applications and services typically expected from much larger, tier one vendors--often going beyond. Namely, the product is so complete that it does not involve third-party products (other than some reporting facilities). Its natively-built features go beyond the customer relationship management (CRM) or HR/Payroll capabilities, which are often found in other products, but only as third party solutions that are embedded, standard configurations leaving customers oblivious to modules’ origins...