The Baan Company
is one of the world's leading providers of
scaleable enterprise business software solutions. It has
more than 3,000 customer systems implemented in 5,000
sites worldwide. At the core of the Baan Company is a
continuous effort to reduce software complexity and increase
customer value. Baan makes this possible through its Baan
Series products, which feature component open architecture
and integrated business application functionally.
History The Baan Company is a profit making
, public limited company. Founded in the Netherlands
in 1978 by Jan & Paul Baan, The Baan Company
shipped its first information systems in 1982. It now
has dual headquarters in Putten, The Netherlands,
and Reston, Virginia, United States of America.
It also operates direct and indirect sales channels in
80 countries.
Since 1995, the Company has significantly expanded its
sales and service presence in North America, Latin
America and certain European and Asian markets.
To date, more than 2,000 of its enterprise systems have
been implemented at approximately 4,800 sites around the
world. The Company's net revenues have increased from
$226.7 million in 1995 to $679.6 million in 1997. The
number of employees has more than doubled from 1,618 employees
on December 31, 1995 to 4, 254 on December 31, 1997.
Baan operates in a skills and labour intensive market,
focusing on Development Education and Maintenance
of Software Products. Baan has three main international
service centers in the world. They are in the USA,
Netherlands and India.
In India, Baan has four thrust areas.
- Software Development (40% of total development)
in Hyderabad and Mumbai Centres.
- Education and Training in Hyderabad.
- Maintenance and Customer Care in Hyderabad and Mumbai
- Marketing in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.
Of the main business software products, Baan ERP,
Baan Customer Relation Management (CRM) which integrates
Baan Front Office Product and initiatives in E-enterprise,
Baan Supply Chain Systems and Baan Corporate
Office (CODA), Baan's Dynamic Enterprise Modeling
Strategy Execution (DEMSE), Baan-On-Board are
notable ones.
The Baan Company offers complete solutions that are
specially designed to meet the needs of key vertical
markets. These solutions are built with Baan's best-in-class
Baan series components and are tailored to the needs
of every industry. Today Baan offers industry solutions
for Aero space and Defence, Automotive, Consumer
packaged goods, Electronics, Engineering and Construction,
Forest precuts, Heavy Equipment, Primary Metals, Project,
Semicondutor and Speciality Chemicals.
Baan Company has been certified by CMM under
Level-2. In 1994, Baan got a quality certification
under ISO 9002.
Address:
Road
# 2, Banjara Hills, Hyderbad- 500 033.
Phone: 360 7299/ 360 7355
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