About us
Vanenburg is a leading independent software provider. Building on a proud heritage, we are experts in developing Cloud based Enterprise Software modernization solutions, that include Custom Made Applications, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Based on Rappit, our application development suite consisting of amongst others Rappit Developer and Rappit Composer, we enable our customers to create unique business value.
Vanenburg serves a customer base consisting of multinationals and medium sized organizations, mainly in the Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics and Retail & Wholesale industries. Our Rappit Suite also supports ISV’s and System Integrators in building world-class applications.
Company profile
Our story
We believe that companies can outperform their peers by modernizing their enterprise IT solutions. Vanenburg is the expert in manufacturing, supply chain & logistics, and retail & wholesale industries, and serves ISVs & software integrators. We leverage innovative technologies in offering solutions around Application Development & Support, Data Analytics & Machine Learning, and Cloud Operations. We are your guide in modernizing IT, empowering your smart enterprise.
Why Vanenburg?
40+ years of experience in the enterprise software market with deep expertise in ERP and integrations to back-end systems
Unique rapid application development capabilities to quickly prototype and develop applications at scale against lowest total cost of ownership
Innovative Rappit Composer no-code apps & workflows platform
Fully automated cloud hosting & management service based on “Infrastructure as Code” approach to provision and manage cloud resources and apps (24 x 7)
Strong big data & machine learning expertise based on Google Cloud
Certified Google Cloud partner serving global brands
Flexible resourcing models: onsite, nearshore, offshore or mixed
Certified for the information security standards ISO27001 and NEN7510
Meet the team
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Ardjan Baan
CEO
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Ardjan Baan
CEO
Ardjan Baan bears overall responsibility for Vanenburg as Chief Executive Officer, driving the direction the company takes and leading its growth plans.
Ardjan has a background in marketing & sales operations and holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
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Paul Baan
CFO & MD Vanenburg Group
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Paul Baan
CFO & MD Vanenburg Group
Paul Baan has a broad experience of more than 25 years in different management and board positions within the Vanenburg organization. He bears financial overall responsibility for Vanenburg as Chief Financial Officer, with a focus on the financial and legal affairs of the company, and is the managing director of the total Vanenburg Group company. Paul holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Hans Don
CTO
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Hans Don
CTO
Hans Don is Vanenburg’s technological thought leader and as Chief Technology Officer he maximizes the alignment between our products and the needs of our customers. He uses his 20+ years of knowledge and experience in traditional IT, upcoming technologies and business concepts to lead our product vision and oversee the design of business solutions for our customers.
Hans is a Certified Professional Google Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Cloud Developer and holds a master’s degree in Agriculture & Natural Environments from Wageningen University.
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Bernhard Baan
COO
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Bernhard Baan
COO
Bernhard Baan manages the daily operations as Chief Operating Officer at Vanenburg, including customer-related processes and supporting functions.
Bernhard has a background in marketing (holding an MSc. degree in Marketing from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam), and hospitality, (also bearing overall responsibility for Kasteel De Vanenburg, which is a hotel-, restaurant-, convention- and wedding venue, next to being the Vanenburg Group headquarter).
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Vinodh Kumar JK
SVP Research & Development
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Vinodh Kumar JK
SVP Research & Development
In his role of SVP Research & Development, he is responsible for conceptualizing, building, and taking to market our Rappit Suite, containing products that accelerate intelligent application development on Google Cloud.
JK Vinodh has always been passionate about continuously reducing development time & increasing quality and bringing products faster to the customers at much affordable cost and increased value. His ambition is to democratize IT development on a large scale – with reduced cost for application development, and increased speed, time, and quality.
He has 12+ experience in the cloud including 7+ years of highly successful application delivery using the Google Cloud. He has proven expertise in both product and application development, innovation, delivery, architecture, requirements gathering, and optimally mapping user requirements into workable software and cost optimization.
As Product Manager for ‘Cordys Process Factory’ (CPF), which was a PaaS RAD tool for building and running enterprise workflow apps on the cloud, he played a key role in taking the product successfully to many large customers, enabling them to build over 1000 apps using the platform.
JK Vinodh has a Master’s degree in computer science (MCA) and has over 25 years of experience in business software development. Before joining Vanenburg, he was working in Baan Company, Invensys, SSA Global, and Cordys.
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Agalya Kitherian
SVP AI & CloudOps
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Agalya Kitherian
SVP AI & CloudOps
Agalya Kitherian is the head of AI/ML and Cloud Operations practice. She is passionate about designing and implementing advanced data analytics and AI/ML solutions to help enterprises optimize their resources efficiently, enhance customer experience, and improve profitability. She is also responsible for the CloudOps and Support team that builds and operates secure cloud landing zones for clients.
Agalya has 25 years of software development experience and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Bharathiar University Coimbatore, India.
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Ruud Oudman
SVP Sales
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Ruud Oudman
SVP Sales
Ruud Oudman is a driven Sales Director (SaaS/PaaS) with over 20 years of experience from start-up companies to enterprises. During his career, he has built teams that consistently outperformed by understanding our customers’ core needs and building relationships that provide value.
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Huibert de Vries
SVP Product Marketing
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Huibert de Vries
SVP Product Marketing
Huibert de Vries is responsible for product marketing. Huibert holds an MSc. degree in Business administration from Rotterdam School of Management. He spent over 12 years in marketing, sales, program management, and business development roles at a multinational before joining Vanenburg. Being co-author of a book about Open Source software, Huibert is passionate about creating business impact with innovative and meaningful software.
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Ganesh Sudhakar M
SVP Solution Development & Support
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Ganesh Sudhakar M
SVP Solution Development & Support
Ganesh has over 20 years of experience in software development which includes product development, development and implementation of ERP, and Solution development. At Vanenburg, he is responsible for all solution development and support teams. Ganesh holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Pondicherry Central University.
He has experience in developing middleware projects and enabling integration to backend applications / ERPs like SAP, Baan, Peoplesoft, and Microsoft Dynamics, among others. He is also experienced in developing complete tailor-made & fully customizable Logistics ERP from scratch using open stack technologies. Before joining Vanenburg, Ganesh worked in Baan, IBM – La Gaude, and Cordys in various roles like Software Developer, Implementation, Technical Lead & Product Architect.
He is passionate about designing & implementing highly scalable & performable enterprise applications using Open-stack & cloud technologies.
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Brigitte Janssen
Marketing Director
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Brigitte Janssen
Marketing Director
Brigitte Janssen is a senior energetic business leader with over 20 years of marketing experience in creating markets, increasing brand awareness, and revenue growth at (international) ICT corporate organizations (B2B).
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Christo Saayman
Delivery Director
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Christo Saayman
Delivery Director
Christo Saayman is a results-oriented Delivery Director with over 15 years of experience in operations, currently driving delivery excellence at Vanenburg in the Netherlands. He thrives on the challenge of streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency, and ensuring successful project delivery.
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Shirley Muller
HR Manager
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Shirley Muller
HR Manager
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Magesh Sahasranamam
General Manager India
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Magesh Sahasranamam
General Manager India
Magesh Sahasranamam is the General Manager in India and has demonstrated experience in IT products, IT services, ITES, and start-up environments. He is skilled in Talent acquisition, campus hiring, volume hiring, and Just-in-time hiring. HR consulting experience for incubation setups/start-ups. Proven experience in compensation & benefits management, statutory compliance, talent management, and Retention.
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Willem van Enter
Strategic Advisor
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Willem van Enter
Strategic Advisor
Willem van Enter, a software industry veteran, has a proven track record of over 30 years in sales & marketing, partner management, and general management. In his current capacity as Strategic Advisor, Willem is advising the management team and key executives in the growth phase of the company, with a special focus on commercial growth.
In his former role, he was leading the commercial activities at Vanenburg as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to joining Vanenburg, Willem held senior management roles at Baan Company, Oracle, VMware, and most recently as Vice President EMEA for low-code development platform company OutSystems where he built up the business, growing revenue by 10 times in 8 years.
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Subramanian Ramanathan
Strategic Advisor
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Subramanian Ramanathan
Strategic Advisor
Subramanian Ramanathan is our Indian veteran with over 30 years of experience and one of the first employees back in the days of Baan Company in India. As a strategic advisor, he is advising the board and chairman regarding our strategy and operations. He is also involved in helping the organization realize its full potential in India and works closely with the team in the Netherlands.
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Jan Baan
Founder & Chairman
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Jan Baan
Founder & Chairman
Jan Baan has over 45 years of entrepreneurial and business leadership experience in the software industry. Internationally recognized for his key role in creating the worldwide market for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Jan is a self-made serial entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Jan founded Baan Company in 1978, soon after attending Business College. With the development of his first software package in 1979, Jan started what was to become a pioneering career in the IT industry around Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Under Jan’s stewardship, Baan Company grew from a $35 million company in the early 1990s to $680 million in 1998. Baan became the number 2 ERP player in the software industry.
In the late 1990s, Jan became a highly successful venture capitalist by focusing on software innovation. He was an early investor in the on-demand collaborative software company WebEx Communications, later on acquired by Cisco Systems for $3 billion, as well as an early backer of Top Tier, which was subsequently sold to SAP for $400 million.
In 2001, Jan founded Cordys with a mission to solve the IT implementation and change issues faced by today’s extended enterprise by enabling an organization to be more responsive to changing business conditions. Customers leveraging the benefits of their software included the Dutch Ministry of Defence, Siemens, Mercer, Pacific Blue Cross, and Tata Steel. In 2013, Cordys was acquired by OpenText, the leader in Enterprise Information Management, and is now the cornerstone for its long-term strategy.
History
Start of what was to become a a $680 million company in 1998 and the number 2 player in the world around enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
Jan Baan as early investor in WebEx Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems for $3 billion) & TopTier (sold to SAP for $400 million)
Offering a leading enterprise business process management (BPM) and integration platform, acquired by OpenText
Focus on building innovative ERP solutions
Platform to build single purpose apps to simply interactions with enterprise systems
Adoption of Google Cloud Platform and start of rapid application development platform on Google
Joining hands with the number 1 Customer Success Platform for CRM, Service, Community & Platform
App modernization on Google Cloud Platform
Vanenburg selected as partner to manage all business critical applications on Google Cloud Platform and operate the complete Google Cloud infrastructure
Agent to build out Vanenburg presence in Canada
Positioning for faster acceleration of growth, introducing new tagline "Modernize your enterprise software", changing its company name to Vanenburg
Agent to build out Vanenburg presence in France
Vanenburg announces the general availability of Rappit Developer, the high productivity coding product built by Vanenburg
Achieving the Premier Partner status in Google Cloud, Vanenburg proved the breadth and depth of its expertise in Google Cloud
Vanenburg announces the general availability of Rappit Developer, the high productivity coding product built by Vanenburg
"You are truly adding business value to our organization by succesfully delivering flexible process apps on the Google Cloud Platform. It is a pleasure to count on a professional team!"
"Vanenburg has a very clear and strong vision on software development and has proven to be a trusted partner with a deep understanding of the market."
"We have selected Vanenburg as a strategic choice because of their expertise, commitment to quality and agility in the Google service offering. We see this as a true partnership from both sides in which we can jointly build innovative solutions with quality and manage them in a professional way."
"The machine learning enabled solution built by Vanenburg on Google Cloud is a core enabler to deliver on our ambition to provide a fully automated service and further grow our business. The solution has already allowed us to win a major new customer."
Risk-free 3+3+3 approach
We are technology experts, used to deliver quality work collaboratively and fast. We do not believe in lengthy consultancy projects, but we see the need for establishing a good common ground and creating a well-thought-out design.
Our risk-free 3+3+3 approach ensures that developers and business executives are focused on end results to prove feasibility and effectiveness. We thereby make innovation tangible and focus on continuous improvement initiatives.
Our approach:
- 3-hours: workshop to create solution blueprint and high-level scope
- 3-days: working and accepted prototype
- 3-weeks: pilot and working software solution (minimal viable product)
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