# Baan

> Baan (Baan Company N.V.) was a Dutch ERP software vendor founded in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands
> by Jan Baan. It is no longer an operating company: acquired by Invensys in 2000, sold to SSA Global
> in 2003, and absorbed into Infor in 2006. The product line continues as Infor LN. Baan publishes no
> first-party API, developer portal, SDK, or specification of its own.

## Status

- Status: acquired / defunct as an independent brand
- Successor product: Infor LN (https://www.infor.com/product-summary/erp/ln/)
- Successor company: Infor Global Solutions
- Legacy domains: baan.com and baan.nl — HTTP only, blanket 301 to the Infor LN product page
- API surface: none. Programmatic access to the Baan lineage is delivered through Infor LN REST APIs
  and the Infor ION API gateway on Infor's developer platform, not by Baan.

## Background

- Baan Corporation (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baan_Corporation
- Baan on Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baan
- Battery Ventures lists Baan Company as an exited investment: https://www.battery.com/list-of-all-companies/

## Notable technology (historical)

- Dynamic Enterprise Modeler (DEM) — business-process-driven configuration of the ERP suite
- Baan Tools — the 4GL development environment used to extend and customize the suite
- Component-based ERP architecture, strong in discrete manufacturing and project industries

## Artifacts in this profile

- apis.yml — the APIs.json profile for this company
- security/baan-domain-security.yml — probed DNS/TLS posture of the legacy Baan domains
- well-known/baan-well-known.yml — probed /.well-known/ surface (none; all paths redirect)

## Notes for agents

There is nothing to call here. Do not attempt to construct Baan API requests. If a user asks for Baan
ERP integration, route them to Infor LN REST APIs / Infor ION API under Infor, and treat "Baan" as a
legacy name for that product line.