LawsonGuru Blog

According to this recent article (http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403609), it seems that SAP’s ambitious plan for offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) to the mid-market was just a wee bit too ambitious:

(more…)

I know, I know.  I pick on Lawson Support too much.  (more…)

I guess I can’t complain any more.  Lawson finally knows me!

(more…)

We always hear a lot about IT alignment. That is, how aligned your IT goals are with goals of your business? Usually, these are addressed in a macro view, but rarely in micro. But what about within the IT organization itself? Are its goals aligned internally within IT?

(more…)

It’s an interesting dilemma.  A Lawson client asked me why they should continue to use Lawson for their HR software.  While they use for Lawson for Financials, they really don’t utilize much of the HR suite:

(more…)

During the 7.2 -> 8.0 Applications upgrade cycle, Lawson introduced “Upgrade While Active” (at CUE 2003 I think…).  This changed the upgrade process to reduce the downtime required to move the data from between application product lines as part of the upgrade. 

The 8.0 -> 9.0 Applications were rewritten to use the Java-based sqldbcopy, and table data is copied between product lines/databases directly on the database server rather than the previously-used dump/load method.  This, of course, speeds things up dramatically.  (more…)

Nothing says “we don’t care” better than lousy customer service. This was the “greeting” I received this morning on Lawson’s Support site when trying to open a case:

Maybe I’m just a little unreasonable, but this was on a Monday morning at 8:25am EDT.  (more…)

It’s a complaint I hear often, although not as often as I used to hear it.   The upgrade programs/process was re-worked to take advantage of sqldbcopy, which solves some of the speed issues for copy jobs (i.e. tables which don’t require conversion).  For those, the copying is done directly on the database server.  However, some of the pre-jobs, loads, and post-jobs continue to be a bottleneck. (more…)

First Hyperion gets acquired by Oracle (see http://www.oracle.com/hyperion/index.html). 

Now more big news this week: http://www.businessobjects.com/news/press_release.asp?id=20071007_005046.  The question I’m getting from a lot of you in the Lawson community is: “Where does this leave Lawson?”.  And, of course, the answer is, “well, of course, I don’t know”.  But I have my opinions/ideas. (more…)