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In the year 1998, I started working on Baan IV b2. One of my first end-to-end implementation was a small industrial value manufacturing company called Virgo Engineers Ltd, being fresh out of IIT Bombay, I was full of enthusiasm. Baan became one of the best thing I had learned ever. VirgoBaan Implementation lasted for more than 15 months, during the same, we also worked on few other implementations like Dana Spicer, Thermax Chemicals and so on.
In 2008 again, after a decade I happen to head a Baan implementation project as head of IT (CIO for http://www.mcc.es in India,spanish multinational), after working on most of ERP and BI solution I left that there are some situations where Baan is best.
Baan is one of those companies, where product strength surpassed the strength of company, Baan company went through troubled times for several years and hence was sold multiple times, but anybody who has worked or consulted on Baan can vouch for its strength.
Idea of Baansupport.com came out of following thoughts
- To help companies who are end-users of Baan
- To help Baan implementation companies to come to a common place and share there ideas
- To ensure that Baan implementations( which are in thousands) across the globe keep on reaping benefits of this beautiful ERP system
- In 1998 Baan was globally number 2 ERP company
- At the peak Baan had 13000 enterprise ERP customers
- The largest ERP customers of all times, Boeing is still on Baan for more than 15 years
- Most of the Baan customers do not shift because of product,but out of commercial complusions
- Baan Partner-ecosystem is getting better and better by everyday.
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Baan Quick Guides
Baan Quick Guides are one of the best points to start discovering Baan functionality. Use this area of Baansupport.com to explore Baan Quick Guides. Following links could be invaluable help to anybody working in Baan Tools, Baan Administration, I have found them invaluable for years.
Baan Implementation involves following steps
- Formation of Key User Committee and Steering Committee at the start of Implementation
- User Training
- Conference Room Pilot I
- Customization Requirements
- Conference Room Pilot II
- Customization Requirements