29-06-2012, 06:06 PM
BAAN
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Introduction
Jan Baan was the Dutchman who created Baan ERP Software back in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands.
Overtime Baan corporation faced financial problems (caused by the owner himself) and was sold to Invensys and now to SSA Global .
It was begun as a tool for financial and administrative consulting services with a focus on Enterprise Resource Planning.
It is now part of Info ERP, and companies are still its products.
Architecture Of ERP
ERP mostly have a 3 tier architecture (Baan has) i.e. a client which runs on individual user desktops, a database which runs centrally on the server and the Baan application itself which can reside in the same server as database or can be separate depending on the needs of the enterprise. ERP’s are very complex & huge systems catering to all kinds of functionalities and industries - one can easily get lost in a software of this kind.
BAAN’s Future
Baan has been very decentralized but to resolve all of the current issues, they need to centralize which will have a “drastic and costly short-term effect” but ultimately it should let Baan recover.
Continuing to see strength in sales of Baan Front Office Systems
Baan - The Future is SSA GLOBAL Baan has now been merged and will no more have the name Baan. The new version of ERP LN 6.1 as it is named now, has just been released in USA 2 weeks back. It will take more than a year for it to be released in India as the localization needs to be developed.
BAAN Flipside
BAAN though very strong in functionality in Manufacturing and SCM lacks a lot in terms of Finance functionality.
~ It has a thick client making it very difficult to use it via the web.
~ Poor marketing (Have you seen any advertisements in the last 10 years ?) is killing a product which ranked with SAP as the 2nd best in 90’s.