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Baan and HP Expand Partnership to Deliver Enhanced Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions

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Baan Company and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have expanded their seven-year relationship in technology and service, furthering Baan's commitment to providing joint HP customers with a strong solution for multi-site, multi-national manufacturing. This new alliance recognizes Baan's leadership as a worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software provider, enabling customers to move from proprietary systems to a distributed, open systems architecture suitable for global business. The partnership will provide customers with a flexible solution to accommodate changing business needs and technologies.

Key Takeaways:

  • Baan and HP have expanded their partnership to a global level, recognizing Baan's leadership as a worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software provider.
  • The partnership will deliver a higher degree of customer satisfaction through tighter technology links and streamlined pre- and post-sales requirements management.
  • Nearly half of Baan's customers, including ABB, Boeing, Hitachi, Oki Manufacturing, Philips Medical Systems, Northern Telecom, and Snap-On Incorporated, rely jointly on Baan and HP for a flexible solution.
  • Baan's commitment to the HP platform is long-standing, with the company using the HP 9000 for its own development environment.
  • The partnership will provide dedicated development teams to deliver optimum performance of Baan's ERP applications on the HP 9000 platform.
  • The companies will jointly integrate between Baan applications and HP's Service Guard software to ensure high availability of TRITON/HP 9000 for mission-critical environments.
  • Baan and HP will jointly integrate between Baan applications and HP OpenView, a complete environment for application, system, and network management essential for multi-site operations.
  • The partnership will deliver cooperative sales and marketing programs for strategic accounts and key vertical markets.
  • Customers will have access to HP's Professional Services Organization, which provides consulting and services for information technology architecture, benchmarking, and customization of high-availability and other HP software solutions.

Statistics:

  • Baan has more than 1,300 customers in over 47 countries worldwide.
  • Baan's TRITON family supports multiple relational databases and is available in more than 20 languages.
  • HP had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year.
  • HP has 102,300 employees and is the world's leading supplier of open enterprise computing.
  • Baan operates from dual corporate headquarters in Ede, The Netherlands, and Menlo Park, California, and has 1,300 employees worldwide.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, "Baan and HP Expand Partnership to Deliver Enhanced Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions", Dec 11, 1995
  • Baan Company website, http://www.baan.com
  • Hewlett-Packard website, http://www.hp.com

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