Compaq ProLiant four-and eight-way servers have set a new performance standard for running
BaanERP 5.0c on a Microsoft(R) Windows NT server(R) platform.
(3) Over the years Baan has released six different versions of its ERP system (3GL; Triton, versions 1, 2 and 3; Baan IV; and the recently released
BaanERP).
The implementation factory accommodates four IBM Global Services centers specializing in the delivery of
BaanERP applications covering enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management and e-commerce.
The Baan Company has certified that IBM's AS/400e server is capable of supporting 12,000 concurrent users on the
BaanERP software.
Ever since the $86.6 million Coda acquisition closed in May 1998, Baan has faced difficulties positioning the product as part of the
BaanERP suite.
In January 1998, it accepted a $22m investment from Baan to establish a non-exclusive sales and marketing relationship under which it would provide the human resources and payroll functions for Baan's ERP suite,
BaanERP. However, since then, Baan has been hit by internal problems, coupled with a more general slowdown in the market for ERP systems, and sales of its software have plummeted.
The new OS/390 Print Server include printer data stream transforms that convert the HP-PCL and PostScript data streams commonly supported on non-mainframe applications (such as PeopleSoft or
BaanERP) to the Advanced Function Printing (AFP) printer data stream IBM has always supported on its AS/400s and mainframes and the IBM printers that connect to them.
The suite covers supply chain network modeling and design, extensive collaboration capabilities based on XML and using a rules-based inference engine, and intelligent back-end fulfillment, linking to
BaanERP and manufacturing.
Avro will market AS/400 systems pre-configured with
BaaNERP and Dynamic Enterprise Models for the customer's specific vertical market segment.
OS/390 Print Server will include printer data stream transforms that convert the HP-PCL and PostScript data streams commonly supported on non-mainframe applications (such as PeopleSoft or
BaanERP) to the Advanced Function Printing (AFP) printer data stream IBM has always supported on its AS/400s and mainframes and the IBM printers that connect to them.
To that end, IBM's mainframe division offers customers installing Lotus Domino, SAP R/3,
BaanERP, Oracle Applications, PeopleSoft, Intelligent Miner, Net.Commerce or consolidated Unix or Windows NT print and file serving workloads up to a 75% price cut on OS/390 products used to support those workloads for the portion of the MIPS that is dedicated to these jobs and provided customers buy extra MIPS to cover these jobs.
Webb was talking at the European launch of Baan's Operations Management suite - a modular system that combines elements of
BaanERP with CAPS Logistics' supply chain management (SCM) software.