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	<title>LawsonGuru Blog</title>
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	<description>Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SAP&#8217;s SaaS Scaleback</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/saps-saas-scaleback/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/saps-saas-scaleback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this recent article (http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403609), it seems that SAP&#8217;s ambitious plan for offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) to the mid-market was just a wee bit too ambitious:

&#8220;There are a lot of things we feel we need to fine-tune before going into it full volume,&#8221; according to an SAP official.
And apparently, SAP didn&#8217;t realize how difficult it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Minding the Store?</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/whos-minding-the-store/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/whos-minding-the-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know.  I pick on Lawson Support too much.  
But man, what an easy target:

I mean, c&#8217;mon.  Here&#8217;s a company that constantly touts itself as a &#8220;player&#8221; in ERP space.  Yet they can&#8217;t even keep their support infrastructure up-and-running. 
It&#8217;s pretty common for even the small guys to at least have 24/7 monitoring, RAID [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Been Immortalized!</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/ive-been-immortalized/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/ive-been-immortalized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I can&#8217;t complain any more.  Lawson finally knows me!
       ]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">John</media:title>
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		<title>Is there a &#8220;LawsonAppliance&#8221; in your Future?</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/is-there-a-lawsonappliance-in-your-future/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/is-there-a-lawsonappliance-in-your-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LWSN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lawson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Support]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Software vendors just love to have their own dedicated box, right?  We all know about the Google Appliance. 


Now the “SAP Appliance”:http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901687.
We all know how difficult it is to install and maintain Lawson (despite their best attempts to convince us of their low TCO…) , particularly if you have add-ons like LBI, PSA, etc.  One way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Lawson Enterprise-Ready?</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/is-lawson-enterprise-ready/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/is-lawson-enterprise-ready/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a topic which always generates a lot of debate. On the one hand, you have Lawson, which touts its “enterprise-readiness”, and its ability to support large enterprises.   Most of us think of Lawson as a software vendor targeting small-to-medium companies, but ask any Lawson executive or salesperson, and they will tell you, “oh, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Aligned?</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/are-you-aligned/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/are-you-aligned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Upgrades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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?

Here&#8217;s an example: You&#8217;re faced with a series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Keep Lawson?</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/should-we-keep-lawson/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/should-we-keep-lawson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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:



Payroll has always been outsourced to ADP and a number of interfaces integrate demographic data and financial transactions.  Benefit &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Stupefying Search Box</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/apples-stupefying-search-box/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/apples-stupefying-search-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m just not hip enough to get it.
 

If I want to search for something, I enter the string (here I entered &#8220;ipods&#8221;)
But what do I do next?

The magnifying glass isn&#8217;t a clickable icon.
The &#8216;X&#8217; is who knows what? [it clears the search box]
I don&#8217;t need &#8220;Search Tips&#8221; [and the right-pointing arrow] (well, maybe I do?, [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">John</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Apple’s website search box</media:title>
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		<title>More Bandwidth ≠ Greater Productivity</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/more-bandwidth-%e2%89%a0-greater-productivity/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/more-bandwidth-%e2%89%a0-greater-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Week published an article, &#8220;Ten Penny-Pinching Ideas for 2008&#8243; (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071120_184990.htm) which got my attention.  No, it wasn&#8217;t the sarcastic reference to &#8220;the best ways to soak your overpriced tech consultants for free advice&#8221; in the opening teaser.
It was my disagreement with # 1 (and how does this qualify as a &#8220;penny-pinching idea&#8221;??):
&#8220;1. Increase your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Happened to &#8220;Upgrade While Active&#8221;??</title>
		<link>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/</link>
		<comments>http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Upgrades]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the 7.2 -&#62; 8.0 Applications upgrade cycle, Lawson introduced &#8220;Upgrade While Active&#8221; (at CUE 2003 I think&#8230;).  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 -&#62; 9.0 Applications were rewritten to use the Java-based sqldbcopy, and table [...]]]></description>
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