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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:00:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Jan Baan envisions next-generation business process management technology that can help move enterprise applications from being data-centric to business-process centric. |
| Keywords: | business process management, BPM, business-process centric enterprise applications |
Jan Baan says that part of his mission in life is to contribute to the innovation of business operations. He has been lauded for his skills as an entrepreneur, but he admits that it has taken 30 years to hone his management skills. At Baan, he considered himself a visionary in charge of building the culture and overseeing R&D. But you need more than vision in business, which may have contributed to the rise and what some consider the fall of the Baan Co. Founded in 1978, Baan hit a rough financial patch in the 1990s, and, under much scrutiny, its namesake resigned as CEO in 1998. The company was acquired by Invensys in the year 2000, only to be sold to two American investment companies, which merged it with SSA Global, now part of Infor.
After his departure, Jan Baan continued to invest in technology companies, but lived a quiet life out of the public eye. That is starting to change.
Recently, Baan resurfaced with an autobiography, The Way To Market Leadership, My Life As An Entrepreneur. And he is looking to make an impact with Cordys Software, the company he founded in 2001 and now leads as chairman. Cordys specializes in business process management software that relies on Web standards, such as XML, to deliver adaptable components that allow individual users to configure their own application mash-ups to fit business needs.
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