Baan Dynamic Enterprise Management

Baan ERP Integration Concept

This also makes strict demands on the information infrastructure, which must be flexible enough to follow the organization's dynamics. In addition, modern information technology also offers important possibilities to support new and fundamentally different types of organizations (process organization, IT as en-abler).

Baan anticipates the above development with its "Dynamic Enterprise Modeling (DEM)" and "TARGET Implementation Methodology" concepts and form an integral part of Baan ERP solution. These Baan components place the implementation of Baan Application in a process control context even more explicitly than in the past.

The concept defines three key objectives:

• Speed, the concept is based on a short and compact implementation cycle, minimizing the implementation effort through the use of modern tools.
• Flexibility, the concept proposes an optimization phases after an initial implementation where the Baan Application configuration smoothly follows organizational changes without the need for a time-consuming and costly effort.
• Integration, the speed and flexibility objectives are realized by a fully integrated Enterprise Modeling tool (Baan DEM Modeler) with the Baan Application. Because of which most of the configuration activities are automated.

The concept of ‘Dynamic Enterprise Modeling’ is based on the definition of line-of-business specific business models which are not rigid, but have the ability to be adaptable to specific requirements and future changes.



 

Dynamic Enterprise Modeling (DEM)

BAAN's key differentiator is a new concept in business management software called Dynamic Enterprise Modeling (DEM). Using Baan's DEM, companies can adapt Baan's software to your changing organizational structure, business practices, and operational procedures. DEM provides tools that simplify and speed up the process of effective reengineering, and BAAN offers reference models that let companies take full advantage of widely-accepted and proven industry-specific business procedures and methods.

The Enterprise Modeler "Toolkit" is used to create and maintain enterprise models, in relation to the ERP software that is used to control a business. The principal purpose of DEM is the implementation and configuration of the ERP software, but it can also be used for Business Process Reengineering. Based on improvements designed in the model, both the business and the use of the ERP software can be optimized.

An Enterprise Model consists of the following components

• The Enterprise Structure Model (ESM), a geographical representation of the sites in a multisite environment, used as an overview of the model and to create the multisite setup in the Baan application.
• The Business Control Model (BCM), which describes how the business functions control the primary flows.
• The Business Function Model (BFM), the Business Process Model (BPM) and the Business Organization Model (BOM), that provide not only a graphical representation of the company business procedures and structure, but that also trigger the customized configuration of the ERP Application in sync with the business reality of the customer.
• The Data Model, or Entity Relation Diagram (ERD), which represents the data structure in BAAN and other applications.



 

TARGET Enterprise Implementation Methodology

Target Enterprise (TE) is the method to manage the Selection, Implementation and Continuous Improvement of Baan ERP solutions, using Dynamic Enterprise Modeling concepts and the principles and techniques of Goal Directed Project Management.

Target Enterprise is characterized by the four elements:

• a structure that distinguishes phases within a Target Enterprise Program and the definition of one or more projects within these phases;
• a focus on change in the area of personnel, system, and organization that is represented within the milestone result paths and the modular setup of the Base Module and different Add-Ons;
• the use of multi-level prototyping principles referred to as simulations performed at different times and on different company levels;
• the use of the Enterprise Modeler and Enterprise Reference Models (tools and templates) to speed up implementations and increase the control over implementation projects.