# Baan

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/baan/  
**Website:** https://www.infor.com/product-summary/erp/ln/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Baan Domain Security** — DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Netherlands, Acquired, Legacy

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/baan/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.