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A REPORT ON

GROUP NUMBER-II

SUBMITTED BY DHRUBA JYOTI GOGOI(DC2010MCA5002) JENIFA AFRIN AHMED(DC2010MCA5008) RAKTIM ROY(DC2010MCA5009) OLI KAKATI(DC2010MCA5014) KHRAIMCHANNARZARI(DC2010MCA5027) MANMI BORA(DC2010MCA5028)

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CONTENTS

o Introduction

o History

o Product version

o Supported Platform and Database (Server)

o Standard Modules

o Baan Virtual Machine bshell

o Infor Baan ERP Services

o References

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INTRODUCTION
Baan was a vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that is now owned by Infor Global Solutions.Baan or Baan ERP was also the name of the ERP product created by this company.

History
The Baan Corporation was created by Jan Baan in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands, to provide financial and administrative consulting services. With the development of his first software package, Jan Baan and his brother Paul Baan entered what was to become the ERP industry. The Baan company focused on the creation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Jan Baan developed his first computer program on Durango F-85 computers in BASIC language. In the early '80s, Baan Company began to develop application on Unix computers with C and self-developed Baan-C language, whose syntax was very similar to BASIC language. Baan gained its popularity in the early nineties. Baan software is famous for its Dynamic Enterprise Modeler (DEM), technical architecture and its 4GL language. Baan 4GL and Tools nowadays is still considered to be one of the most efficient and productive database application development platforms. Baan became a real threat to market leader SAP after winning a large Boeing deal in 1994. It went IPO in 1995 and became a public listed company in Amsterdam and US Nasdaq. Several large consulting firms throughout the world partnered to implement Baan IV for multi-national companies. It acquired several other software companies to enrich its product porfolio, including Aurum, Berclain, Coda and Caps Logistics. Sales growth rate was once claimed to reach 91% per year. However the fall of the Baan Company began in 1998. The management exaggerated company revenue by booking "sales" of software licenses that were actually transferred to a related distributor. The discovery of this "creative" revenue manipulation led to a sharp decline of Baan's stock price at the end of 1998. In June 2000, facing worsening financial difficulties, law suits and reporting seven consecutive quarterly losses and bleak prospects, Baan was sold at a price of US$700 million to Invensys, a UK automation, controls, and process solutions group to become a unit of its Software and Services Division. Laurens van der Tang was the president of this unit. With the acquisition of Baan, Invensys's CEO Allen Yurko began to offer "Sensor to Boardroom" solutions to customers. In June 2003, after Allen Yurko stepped down, Invensys sold its Baan unit to SSA Global Technologies for US$ 135 million. Upon acquiring the Baan software, SSA renamed Baan as SSA ERP Ln. In August 2005, SSA Global released a new version of Baan, named SSA ERP LN 6.1. In May 2006, SSA was acquired by Infor Global Solutions of Atlanta, which was a major ERP consolidator in the market.

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Product version

Triton 1.0 to 2.2d, 3.0 to last version of Triton is 3.1bx, then the product is renamed to Baan Baan 4.0 (last version of BaanIV is BaanIVc4 SP30) & Industry extensions (A&D) Baan 5.0 (last version of BaanV is Baan5.0 c SP26) Baan 5.1, 5.2 (for specific customers only) SSA ERP 6.1 /Infor ERP LN 6.1 / Infor10 ERP Enterprise

Supported Platform and Database (Server)

Server Platform:
Windows Server, Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AS400(Obsolete), OS390 (Obsolete)

Database:
Oracle, DB2, Informix, MS SQL Server, MySQL (Obsolete since year 2010), Bisam (Obsolete), Btam (Obsolete)

Standard Modules
Baan IV modules:
Common (tc), Manufacturing (ti),
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Finance (tf), Distribution (td),

Project (tp), Process (ps),

Transportation (tr), Constraint Planning (cp), Baan DEM ( tg)

Service (ts), Tools (tt),

Enterprise Modeler (tg), Utilities (tu),

ERP Ln 6.1 modules:


Enterprise Modeler (tg), Common,Taxation (tc), Financials (tf), Project (tp), People(bp), Enterprise Planning (cp), Central Invoicing

Order Management (td), Electronic Commerce (ec), Manufacturing (ti), Service (ts), Tools (tt).

Warehouse Management (wh), Freight Management (fm), Quality Management (qm), Object Data Management (dm),

Baan Virtual Machine - bshell


Bshell is the core component of Baan application server. It is a process virtual machine to run Baan 4GL language. Bshell were ported to different server platforms and make Baan program scripts platform independent. For example, a Baan session developed on Windows platform can be copied to Linux platform without re-compiling the application code. Bshell is similar to nowaday's Java VM or .Net CLR.

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Infor Baan ERP Services


e-Emphasys has over 1,000 man-years of experience in the implementation, development, customization and support of Baan ERP, working with releases from Baan Trition to the most current Infor LN. Our extensive experience includes project management, migration, training, integrations with legacy or other ERP systems, barcoding solutions, CRM, Business Intelligence, archiving and other services. Our talented professionals provide a deep pool of Baan ERP expertise to ensure your project's success and our 100% positive referral from e-Emphasys clients testifies to our past performance. Implementation

e-Emphasys executes implementations based on many years of experience implementing ERP solutions at companies ranging large to midsize and small. e-Emphasys brings a proven project management methodology and change management experience, which are prerequisites for successful system implementations. ERP implementation - on time and on budget - is ensured with our StepFastesq methodology.

Development & Customization

Customization, while not preferred, can be necessary for organizations to meet their unique business needs. With e-Emphasys' extensive Baan development and customization expertise, software development is performed within a standard software development methodology to ensure that every project is a success. With our offshore development center, eEmphasys provides a high quality and cost-effective solution to address all your customization and development needs.

Managed Services

Managed Services enable companies to use their core IT staff to concentrate on strategic activities, instead of IT support or development activities. e-Emphasys provides Managed Services to customers using our True source model. This enables companies to focus on their business issues, and leverage the large e-Emphasys skills and knowledge base to manage their IT services.

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Integration Services

e-Emphasys has more than 100 man-years of experience in developing integration solutions, particularly using Baan Openworld. e-Emphasys has developed integration solutions from web portals, to Baan ERP, to generic adapters for multiple ERPs. Business Intelligence(BI)

e-Emphasys is a leading provider of Microsoft enterprise business software solutions for the small, mid-size and enterprise markets. As a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, e-Emphasys provides Microsoft Business Intelligence services to its customers. Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) solutions improve performance by driving better decision making, through familiar interfaces tha users work with every day. Powered by the flexibility and horsepower of Microsoft SQL Server and delivered through the trusted Microsoft Office and SharePoint systems, Microsoft BI solutions work together to provide value to users across your organization.

References

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baan_Corporation www.ez-process.net/.../Baan%20section/.../U7099A in.linkedin.com/pub/hitesh-chouhan-baan-erp/8/345/13a

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