Cobra - Baan Interface

Deltek has a case study on the Cobra-Baan Implementation at BAE Systems for the Eurofighter.

http://www.deltek.com/customers/successstories/baesystemsuk.asp

"BAE Systems uses the Baan Enterprise Resource Planning System for purchasing, finance, and manufacturing, and its integration with Open Plan and Cobra was key.

Activities such as designing, tooling, and manufacturing are planned in Open Plan and then passed to Cobra where the budget and baseline are defined. Finally, this information is sent to Baan to authorize work and capture actual costs. In effect, the project management solution drives Baan. Automated costs and progress data from Baan is sent back to Cobra in order to calculate the earned value element needed to perform forecasting, as well as cost and schedule variance analysis. Open Plan and Cobra are crucial to what happens on the shop floor."

Customer contact was identified in the article as David Chard, Project Planning Release Manager with BAE Systems.

It is pretty straightforward and simple. Cobra will work on any kind of electronic tables, from any cost system. The task is merely to get the data out of Baan.

There is a screen in Baan to generate the output table. Cobra imports it as with any .csv or other file.