Baan

Baan (Baan Company N.V., originally The Baan Corporation) was a Dutch enterprise resource planning software vendor founded in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands by Jan Baan and later joined by his brother Paul Baan. Baan built one of the first genuinely component-based ERP suites, known for its Dynamic Enterprise Modeler (DEM), its Baan Tools 4GL development environment, and deep manufacturing and project-industry functionality. At its late-1990s peak Baan served roughly 3,000 customers and posted close to $700 million in revenue, making it one of the leading global ERP providers alongside SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft. Following accounting controversy and a collapse in its share price, Baan was acquired by the British engineering group Invensys in 2000, sold on to SSA Global Technologies in 2003, and absorbed into Infor Global Solutions when Infor acquired SSA in 2006. Baan no longer exists as an operating company or an independent brand: the product line lives on as Infor LN, and the baan.com and baan.nl domains now permanently redirect to the Infor LN product page. Consequently this profile carries no first-party API surface of its own — any modern programmatic access to the Baan lineage is delivered through Infor LN REST APIs and the Infor ION API gateway on Infor's developer platform. Baan Company is listed by Battery Ventures as an exited investment.

Baan is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, Enterprise Software, and Manufacturing.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEnterprise Resource PlanningERPEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSupply ChainNetherlandsAcquiredLegacy

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Crunchbase

Crunchbase

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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description: 'Baan (Baan Company N.V., originally The Baan Corporation) was a Dutch enterprise resource planning software
  vendor founded in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands by Jan Baan and later joined by his brother Paul Baan. Baan built one of
  the first genuinely component-based ERP suites, known for its Dynamic Enterprise Modeler (DEM), its Baan Tools 4GL development
  environment, and deep manufacturing and project-industry functionality. At its late-1990s peak Baan served roughly 3,000
  customers and posted close to $700 million in revenue, making it one of the leading global ERP providers alongside SAP,
  Oracle and PeopleSoft. Following accounting controversy and a collapse in its share price, Baan was acquired by the British
  engineering group Invensys in 2000, sold on to SSA Global Technologies in 2003, and absorbed into Infor Global Solutions
  when Infor acquired SSA in 2006. Baan no longer exists as an operating company or an independent brand: the product line
  lives on as Infor LN, and the baan.com and baan.nl domains now permanently redirect to the Infor LN product page. Consequently
  this profile carries no first-party API surface of its own — any modern programmatic access to the Baan lineage is delivered
  through Infor LN REST APIs and the Infor ION API gateway on Infor''s developer platform. Baan Company is listed by Battery
  Ventures as an exited investment.'
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