Baan, the leading provider of industry-defining enterprise application solutions for industrial enterprises, has been placed in the Visionary Quadrant in Gartner's Application Integration Vendor 2Q03 Magic Quadrant.
Gartner is a leading technology research and advisory firm and its 2Q03 Magic Quadrant for integration broker suites summarises 23 vendors' vision and ability to execute in the application integration market.
"We believe that Baan's positioning in the Visionary quadrant in Gartner's Application Integration Magic Quadrant is true recognition of our continued commitment to delivering the open and integrated solutions that industrial organisations require," commented Guido Dik, Director of Product Marketing Integration and Collaboration Technologies at Baan.
"Through our innovative iBaan OpenWorld solutions, we're moving application integration beyond the traditional technical level to a more business-focused approach that helps reap competitive advantage for these customers," said Dik.
iBaan OpenWorld is a powerful integration framework that helps organisations integrate various processes, data, people and IT applications into a sound business infrastructure.
"While many vendors focus on effective data transfer, iBaan OpenWorld can help organisations integrate and support their business processes across the entire enterprise - both intra-company and inter-company," added Dik.
According to Jane Thomson, managing director of Softworx, sole distributor of the Baan product range in sub-Saharan Africa, Baan's placement in Gartners' Visionary Quadrant is proof that Baan's long-term strategy to offer open component-based solutions is gaining real mind-share within the application integration market space.
"This further confirms that we are on track to achieve our mission of understanding our customers business needs and deliver interoperable, collaborative and process-centric applications for the industrial sector."
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Baan
For more than 25 years, industrial enterprises with complex make, move and service requirements have relied on Baan to help them improve their business performance. Baan is focused on delivering industry-defining enterprise application solutions and services to discrete manufacturers in the industrial machinery and equipment, electronics, automotive, and aerospace and defence sectors. With its unrivalled domain expertise in targeted vertical industries, Baan makes it possible for customers to achieve lowest total cost of ownership and fastest time-to-value from their enterprise solutions.
Baan has 6 500 customers worldwide and installations at more than 21 000 customer sites and is part of the Development Division of Invensys plc. For more information, please visit www.baan.com.
Softworx
Softworx, a leading South African business applications solutions provider, specialises in providing complete business solutions based on a powerful combination of leading-edge products and consultancy. Softworx offers a range of world-class solutions, which leverages off its e-commerce complement, including: application service provider (ASP), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM). The common thread with all Softworx implementations is the guarantee of rapid deployment with measurable benefits resulting in sustainable long-term relationships with its customers.
Softworx's differentiator is its guaranteed delivery, which means it can focus on its customers' success, rather than the number and size of solutions sold. Additional information is available at www.esoftworx.co.za.