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Rapid Implementation of Web Ordering System Enhances Sales and Fulfillment Processes

BARNEVELD, Netherlands and HERNDON, Va., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Baan Company N.V. (Nasdaq: BAANF; Amsterdam: BAAN), a global provider of enterprise business and Internet commerce solutions, today announced that Overland Data Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL), a technology leader in tape-backup products, has implemented and gone live on the Baan E-Sales solution in only 35 days. Overland selected Baan E-Sales to provide its business partners with a powerful Web ordering system that offers customers order and product information, and features tight integration with their fulfillment process.

"Our objectives are to increase sales and improve customer satisfaction by building an Internet commerce system that reused our existing ordering process," said Carlo Saggese, applications manager of Overland. "The Baan E- Sales solution offered a leading Web selling experience and packaged integration that not only leverages our core Baan ERP processes, but substantially reduced implementation risk and allowed us to go live in 35 days."

Overland, with more than 50,000 systems installed worldwide, is the market leader for independent library manufacturers in the under 40 cartridge market. The company is known for its reliable and innovative line of tape libraries and loaders, which have earned numerous prestigious awards and established new standards for automated tape solutions. Overland sells its products through leading distributors, storage integrators, value-added resellers, and several OEM relationships.

Overland uses the Baan E-Sales solution to maintain a multi-media catalog of its products and to offer the convenience of anytime/anywhere ordering to its key business partners. With the implementation successfully completed, business partners will now benefit from fast, accurate response with real-time integration to Overland`s Baan ERP system for price, inventory, available to promise information, and a variety of customer self-service reports. The solution provides Overland the capacity to speed order cycles and to improve customer service.

"Today, leading companies are building more effective Internet commerce sites by tightly linking the Web ordering process with their core fulfillment systems," said Nathan Pieri, director of product management for Baan E- Enterprise. "With Baan E-Sales, Overland has the ideal out-of-the-box solution to extend the power of their Baan fulfillment process to their business partners, enabling faster time-to-market and lower overall cost of ownership."

About Overland

Overland Data, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) is a global supplier of innovative data storage and storage automation solutions for computer networks. The Company`s award-winning DLT LibraryXpress(TM) SmartScale Storage(R) architecture has set new standards for intelligent automated storage and scalability and established Overland as a leader in the mid-range tape storage market. Today, Overland is broadening its product line and technology offerings to address additional segments of the storage market, including the entry-level small- business market, as well as the higher-end enterprise environment. Overland`s patented Variable Rate Randomizer (VR2(TM)) data encoding technology, capable of substantially increasing the capacity and throughput of linear tape formats, is being applied by the Company to Travan tape drives, and has been licensed to Seagate Technology, Tandberg Data and Imation Corp. Overland products, acclaimed for their quality and reliability, are sold worldwide through leading OEMs, including Compaq, IBM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Groupe Bull, commercial distributors such as Ingram Micro, Tech Data Corp. and Bell Microproducts, as well as storage integrators and value-added resellers.

About Baan Company

Founded in 1978, Baan Company (Nasdaq: BAANF; Amsterdam: BAAN) is a global provider of enterprise business solutions. Baan Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services and best-in-class, component-based applications that span an organization`s entire value chain including E- Business and Web Commerce, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, and Corporate Knowledge Management. Deployed at more than 15,000 customer sites worldwide, Baan Company solutions enable organizations to drive strategic business growth, improve business processes, reduce operating complexity, and increase corporate flexibility.

Baan Company has dual headquarters in Barneveld, The Netherlands and Herndon, Virginia, USA and can be found on the World Wide Web at www.baan.com.

Statements in this press release using the words "believes," "expects," "anticipates," and the like are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as such are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect outcomes. Actual outcomes, therefore, may differ materially from the expectations, estimates, or assumptions expressed in or implied by any such statements. Typical risks and uncertainties may be reviewed in the Baan Company`s public filings on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (including its most recent Form 20-F and 6-K).

"Baan" is a registered trademark of Baan Company, and any trade, product, or service name referenced in this release using the name "Baan" is a trademark and/or property of Baan Company. All other company, product, and service names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE Baan Company N.V.

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(BAANF OVRL)

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