BAAN

Presented by : Pratiksha Pinky

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 Infor ERP, and companies are still its products.

Architecture Of ERP
ERP mostly have a 3 tier architecture (BaaN has) ie. 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 seperate depending on the needs of the enterprise.
ERPs are very complex & huge systems catering to all kinds of functionalities and industries - one can easily get lost in a software of this kind.

Products Of BAAN
BAAN ERP Sales order management Procurement Inventory Warehousing Project Management Manufacturing

Baan Front Office

Sales Management Marketing Management Call Center Product Configuration BaanMaintenance BaanService

Products Of BAAN
BAAN Corporate office Accounting Finance(AR,GL,AP ) Human Resource Management BAAN SCS Supply Chain Management Demand Forecasting Manufacturing(MPS,CRP) Distribution(SalesPurchase-Inventory etc) Transportation(Fleet Management, Fuel Control)

BAANs 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 localisation needs to be developed.

 BAAN - Strength
~ Easy to use and implement ~ Very strong Manufacturing & Supply chain ~ Comes with India Localisation (Excise, ST, Octroi etc)

BAAN -Customers

In India, BaaN sites include L&T, Dabur, Godrej & Boyce, Samsonite, BlueStar, Pantaloon, Vulcan, Unichem, Rallis, Goa Shipyard, Bharat Bijlee, Birla Yamaha, Fedders Lloyd, Kirloskar-Copeland etc - more than 100 companies in India.

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 90s.

Technological Benefits
Dynamic enterprise modelling Open system hardware, O/S, RDBMS Full cross functional integration Supply chain management Fully integrated with ERP system Linkage with the Enterprise Information system Faster use of effective functionality

Analysts say cause of Baans problems are:

Baan is trying to establish untested, indirect sales model Integration of a number of acquired companies and products General slow down in the market

Resourses Required
The software cost for BaaN is licence based and on top of it one has to pay an annual maintenance fee for as long as we use the software. This AMC includes new fixes which cater to localisation content arising due to finance budgets (Ex. the cess introduced this year), known bugs, introduction of new functionality etc.

The Hardware costs include the kind of application server one uses and the kind of setup you have(discussed above). Apart from this the kind of Operating System(OS) one uses, the choice of database and the number of users using the application adds to the cost. One also needs to factor in on the AMC costs for OS and Database.
BaaN runs with Oracle, Informix, SQL Server etc.