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.
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.[1]
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 portfolio, including Antalys, Aurum, Berclain, Coda and Caps Logistics. Sales growth rate was once claimed to reach 91% per year.
Product version[edit]
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 SP26.0)
Baan 5.1, 5.2 (for specific customers only)
SSA ERP 6.1 /Infor ERP LN 6.1 / Infor10 ERP Enterprise / Infor LN
ERP Ln 6.1 FP6, released in December, 2009ERP Ln 6.1 FP7, released in January, 2011Infor LN 10.3, released in July, 2013ERP LN 6.1 10.2.1, released 2012 Infor LN 10.4, released 2015Infor LN 10.5, released in June, 2016
Infor ERP Ln 6.1 supports Unicode and comes with additional language translations.
Supported Platform and Database (Server)[edit]
Server Platform:
Windows Server, Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AS400(Obsolete), OS390 (Obsolete)
Database bharathy:
Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, Informix (Obsolete since December 2015), MySQL (Obsolete since year 2010), Bisam (Obsolete), Btam (Obsolete)
Standard Packages[edit]
Baan IV Packages:
Common (tc), Finance (tf), Project (tp),Manufacturing (ti),Distribution (td),Process (ps),Transportation (tr),Service (ts),Enterprise Modeler (tg),Constraint Planning (cp),Tools (tt),Utilities (tu), Baan DEM ( tg)
ERP Ln 6.1 Packages:
PDM BaanIV (ba), Conversion (bc), Enterprise Modeler (tg), Common,Taxation (tc),People(bp), Financials (tf),Project (tp),Enterprise Planning (cp),Order Management (td), Electronic Commerce (ec),Central Invoicing (ci),Manufacturing (ti),Warehouse Management (wh),Freight Management (fm), Service (ts), Quality Management (qm), Object Data Management (dm), Tools (tt), Tools Addons(tl), Development Utilities (du)
Baan Virtual Machine - bshell[edit]
Bshell is the core component of Baan application server. It is a process of 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.