e-Ventus Baan® Users Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 2May 2007

Need Visibility Into Your Supply Chain?
Visit us at Booth #108 at SSAU and find out how!

We are preparing for our participation in Mosaic 2007, the SSA Global User Meeting in Anaheim, CA on June 25 -27th. As a sneak preview of e-Ventus activities, we have been selected to present on the four topics listed below. Please stop by to learn more and ask questions.

* Using the Internet to Empower the Supply Chain/TECH-01/Pacific Room/Monday 9:30 AM-10:30 AM /

* Using XBRL to Facilitate Financial Reporting/TECH-03/Pacific Room/Monday 2:00 PM-3:00 PM/

* e-Collaboration – Enabling Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Throughout the Supply Chain/SCM- 04/Harbor Room/Monday 3:30 PM-4:30 PM/

* The Basics of Lean Manufacturing/MFG-07/Salon VII/VIII/Tuesday 2:15 PM-3:15 PM/

Additionally, Edwin van der Borg, CEO of Migration Labs LLC, will be our guest at the booth. Edwin will demonstrate easybaan® and be available to answer questions. You will also want to stop by our booth and register to win the Schwinn Stealth 1000 Electric Scooter ($500 value). We look forward to seeing you there.

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In this issue (contents below)
 After The Fall: Business Continuity Services From e-Ventus
 An Easy, Cost-Effective Way to Migrate to ERP LN from Baan IV-V
 Baan Constraint Planning
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After The Fall:
Business Continuity Services From e-Ventus

e-Ventus offers complete business continuity services, from offsite data backup to complete real-time server failover.

* BackIT - Backup your data offsite, where you can easily and securely retrieve it when needed.

* HostIT - Whether you need a co-location solution to host your own equipment, or dedicated server hosting, e-Ventus has the solution.

* MirrorIT - The ultimate in redundancy! Complete real-time data backup with true online server redundancy.

Don't loose your valuable ERP data - contact us now for a solution to meet your needs.
Find out more.... www.e-ventus.com
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* An Easy, Cost-Effective Way to Migrate
to ERP LN from Baan IV-V

Many Baan IV and V users are looking ahead to ERP LN®. ERP LN offers enhanced features and functions not found in older Baan versions. From Finance to Service, ERP LN is Baan at its peak, yet at its easiest-to-use level. easybaan®, from Migration Labs LLC, is a bundled solution that contains a pre-configured ERP LN® environment to reflect your business processes and flows. A proven standardized migration methodology customized to each unique client is used to ensure what you value in Baan IV-V® is preserved and enhanced with ERP LN.

Here is how easybaan and ERP LN can help your company:

* easybaan identifies the individual requirements of your company and the way you use Baan today.

* easybaan converts live data, not just static data.

* Gap analysis in easybaan is used to ensure that you will have ERP LN fitted to the way your company does business.

* easybaan utilizes a step-by-step approach providing measurable successes.

* easybaan enables your key users to be trained in ERP LN with your current Baan IV-V® data at the start of the implementation.

* easybaan migration methodology include strong ROI and the ability to cleanse and optimize your Baan IV-V® data while being migrated to ERP LN.

* Success becomes clearly apparent at the beginning of the project allowing management so see value.

Visit e-ventus at booth 108 at SSAU on June 24th through the 26th. See easybaan live and in action at our booth.

A "Special Preview of easybaan" can be seen on June 4th at 1:00 PM EST and June 18th at 1:00 PM EST on the web. Contact cgonzalez@e-ventus.com in advance to join in or to find out more information about easybaan. e-Ventus is the exclusive North American distributor for
easybaan. See www.migration-labs.com


* Baan Constraint Planning

Baan Constraint Planning provides planning functionality that takes into account capacity and material constraints. "Finite" planning takes in to account the capacity of production in work centers. A planning method called "Infinite" planning takes in to account that production is unlimited.

Baan Constraint Planning provides Master Production Scheduling (MPS) with an integrated capability with finite and infinite planning methods. MPS plays a key role in the MRP II logistical planning and control of internal and external flows of goods in a manufacturing environment.. You can select different planning strategies for different parts of your production system with Constraint Planning.

Constraint Planning provides the following advantages

* Optimizes the constraint resources from costs and cash flow, customer service, and inventory

* Coordinates sales and production

* Coordinates the availability of material and capacity

* It becomes the "driver" of the flow of goods, or "input" to the MRP


For more information, contact us at www.e-Ventus.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:: cgonzalez@e-ventus.com
:: http://www.e-ventus.com
:: (216)643-1900 Ext. 1150

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