Baan Company opens dual corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif

Business Wire, Feb 23, 1995

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1995--Baan Company, a leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for manufacturing, construction and distribution industries, today opened its new corporate headquarters in Menlo Park.

The new office functions as a dual headquarters, complementing Baan's European corporate headquarters in Ede, The Netherlands.

"Establishing a second corporate head office in the U.S. is a fundamental part of Baan's international growth strategy," said David Cairns, Baan Company's chief financial officer and one of the company's three main board managing directors.

"A U.S. presence allows the company's top management to operate across time zones in support of our customers, partners, shareholders and employees. It is tangible evidence of our long-term commitment to global success."

Amal Johnson, president of Baan USA, commented, "Baan continues to execute its strategic plan for building momentum in North America. With the new corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Baan has greater access to the technology that will enable us to continue delivering robust client/server ERP business applications and positions us to work more easily with our key technology partners and customers."

Cairns, Johnson and Doug Sallen, managing director of corporate marketing, will operate from the Menlo Park office. The new headquarters will consist of corporate operations, U.S. sales and marketing personnel and a product development team. Personnel in this office will coordinate product marketing and engineering and will work directly with Baan Company's research and development organization in Ede.

The new address is 4600 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 and the phone number is 415/462-4949.

Baan's TRITON is an innovative, feature-rich Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution based upon distributed client/server, relational database and graphical user interface technologies.

TRITON applications offer the scalability to support the entire spectrum of an organization's business processes, including manufacturing, finance, distribution, service and maintenance operations.

Baan also offers advanced fourth-generation language (4GL) tools, called TRITON Tools, that extend TRITON's capabilities by enabling further application development. In addition, Baan provides Orgware, a set of proven methodologies, services, knowledge tools, and business templates, that enables rapid TRITON implementation and ongoing business improvement, helping customers maximize their return on systems investments.

The Baan Company is a leading supplier of ERP software for multi-national, multi-location corporations in the discrete and process manufacturing, distribution and construction industries.

Founded in 1978 in Ede, The Netherlands, Baan operates from dual corporate headquarters in Ede and Menlo Park. Through a significant investment in research and development, Baan continuously renews TRITON to leverage emerging technologies and business practices to meet the evolving information management requirements of Baan's customers.

The company has an installed base of more than 1,800 corporations in more than 40 countries worldwide. Its worldwide customers include ABB, Boeing, Mercedes-Benz, Noranda, Hitachi, Northern Telecom, Philips and Snap-on Inc.

CONTACT: Baan Company

Doug Sallen, 415/462-4949

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Julie Redard, 617/252-0606