BaaN's Internet Direction

The need for cost reduction, flexibility of choice, shortened lead times, and shortened production life-cycles drives collaborative design, collaborative planning, collaborative forecasting, electronic commerce (buy-side and sell-side) and Web-based customer service.

The Electronic Shopper is an example of Web-based solutions that will be provided in the future by the new Baan WWWapps initiative. This initiative focuses on Web-based business-to-business supply chain collaboration. WWWapps will be completely focused on Java for the realization of their initiative.

Baan will present both the motivation and choices behind their WWWapps initiative and an overview of the current status and experiences in realizing their web-applications in Java.