Jan Baan created the Baan Corporation in 1978 in Barneveld, Nederland, providing administrative and financial consulting services. Jan Baan entered what was to become the ERP industry. A few years later, Paul Baan, Jan’s brother, joined the company. It is the largest software family firm in Dutch history. After some accounting scandals, some losses occurred and Baan was sold to Invensys, a firm from UK.
In 2003 poor market performances of Baan ERP led Invensys to sell Baan to SSA Global Technologies. Since that moment, the promoted brand was SSA Baan.
With 44 implementations in 25 years and zero failures, SSA Baan implement projects on time, staying in the budget and plan for the short, medium and long term plans.
Future plans are involving the product’s lifecycle management, to elevate customer service level from order acquisition through manufacturing and subsequent service and maintenance. Another goal is to increase flexibility in order-driven manufacturing.
HP and SSA Global made a product together to offer the best in class end-t-end ERP solutions. Baan is a really sophisticated system, and its “Milestone Deliverables” philosophy has no failure. This is an ERP system that is responding to customer demands with flexibility, not holding back.
Baan is helping the firms to achieve manufacturing excellence. The specialists are saying that no other ERP system offers the breadth and depth of support for order-driven, project-based discrete manufacturing. From made-to-stock to engineer-to-order and from flow line technology to lean manufacturing, Baan recovers all the requirements. Full product lifecycle management enables you to elevate customer service levels from order acquisition through manufacturing and subsequent service and maintenance.
Here are the main activities than Baan is developing now and in the future:
- Improve operational efficiency
- Gain better control of processes
- Increase user productivity
- Improve communication and collaboration
- Enhance performance and scalability
- Leverage IT infrastructure and information assets
- Reduce costs
Discrete manufacturing operations systems are the most difficult to manage; Baan delivers comprehensive support for it, extending the traditional ERP footprint of finance, sales, purchasing, and manufacturing into freight management, warehouse management, and after-market service support.
The designers are an important goal for the future: to make Baan more easy to implement, easy to own, and most importantly, easy to adapt to changing environments, with a dynamic enterprise modeler that enables business processes to be recorded in the system and fully integrated components that allow changes to be reflected immediately in user roles.
The system will run on a variety of platforms, from low cost Linux / MySQL to multi – CPU. Multi—tier data centers, providing further flexibility.
From the very beginning, ERP solutions are growing permanently, they have more than 10 years experience and all this time developed more powerful versions. The future is open to new huge innovative resources, to offer effective and very complex solutions.
ERP solution will develop and implement the most effective software programs for small middle and growing companies. ERP solutions will cover the most various fields (production, distribution, media, consultancy, and financial services) for successful business.
