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		<title>Cloudy with a Chance of Lawson?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/11/18/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-lawson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this recent Lawson press release announcing the hire of a new VP to be curious.  My initial thought was (seriously), what happened to Dean Hager?
With economic-driven staffing reductions, and layoffs at Lawson and other software vendors, isn&#8217;t this just another top-heavy exec?  Then I started to peel back the layers, and it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=366&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Lawson Remain Relevant?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/10/01/can-lawson-remain-relevant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some very interesting developments on the mid-market ERP space:


Oracle And SAP Race For Mid-Market Opportunities
NetSuite Offers ERP iPhone App
Microsoft Acquires Midmarket ERP Products

What does all this mean for Lawson? 
I honestly don&#8217;t know what to make of these developments, but remember that this is not the first time we&#8217;ve seen this ..

Lawson’s Road Ahead: Smooth Ride [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=349&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even If You Can&#8217;t Reproduce It, It&#8217;s Still a Bug</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/09/09/even-if-you-cant-reproduce-it-its-still-a-bug/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/09/09/even-if-you-cant-reproduce-it-its-still-a-bug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of my pet peeves. &#34;We can&#8217;t enter it as a problem unless we can reproduce it.&#34;
 Several months ago, a client recently asked me to research a journal entry that mysteriously appeared in their General Ledger.&#160;&#160; As part of my diagnosis, I determined a likely scenario: when an AR190 job goes into &#34;needs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=340&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Are All Culpable&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/08/22/we-are-all-culpable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
That line comes back to me as I read about a client suing Lawson over a failed implementation.


I dunno, but this sure sounds like a pretty typical ERP implementation. But like a failed marriage, there is usually plenty of blame to go around&#8211;and, of course, no one willing to take it.  

Several years ago, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=328&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Morphing of the Enterprise Software Vendor Revenue Model</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/07/11/the-morphing-of-the-enterprise-software-vendor-revenue-model/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/07/11/the-morphing-of-the-enterprise-software-vendor-revenue-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this an anomaly or an interesting market trend in the enterprise software?
In case you missed it this past week, Lawson released their latest financial results.

The bad news is the dramatic drop in license revenue. The souring of the economy is reflected by the reduction of new implementations.  I know a number of organizations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=322&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is LWSN Re-Investing Your Maintenance Fees?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/05/05/is-lwsn-re-investing-your-maintenance-fees/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/05/05/is-lwsn-re-investing-your-maintenance-fees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Simon forwarded this blog post about how software companies are “skimping” on R&#38;D, and are using maintenance revenue streams to finance their on-going operations.&#160; You—as the software customer—send the vendor some money each year—some to be used for providing you support, but some of it is expected to be used to further enhance the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=290&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CUE 09 Descends On San Diego</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/04/27/cue-09-descends-on-san-diego/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/04/27/cue-09-descends-on-san-diego/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harry Debes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Lawson CUE was held in San Diego this past April, Lawson invited some software industry bloggers to attend the annual event.  I’ll let you read their reviews:

Frank Scavo’s Enterprise Spectator
Michael Krigsman’s IT Project Failures
Ray Wang’s Software Insider’s Point of View
Vinnie Mirchandani&#8217;s Deal Architect

Unlike the LawsonGuru Blog, which targets you—the actual Lawson customer, each of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=274&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We All Knew This Day Would Come</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/03/27/we-all-knew-this-day-would-come/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/03/27/we-all-knew-this-day-would-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LSF9]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawson S3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Paper, Sir?
 Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the newspaper industry is in a serious decline.  Maybe that’s not strong enough.
Newspapers, as we’ve known them, are on their deathbed.   And it’s a sad reversal of fortune.  Gone are the glory days of The Washington Post&#8217;s Woodward and Bernstein.
I grew up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=255&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Lawson Can Learn From IBM</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/02/19/what-lawson-can-learn-from-ibm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/02/19/what-lawson-can-learn-from-ibm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, LawsonGuru.com and Decision Analytics have absolutely no affiliation with Lawson Software.&#160; Which makes for a sometimes contentious relationship with Lawson.&#160; 
 
Yes, I do “tell it like it is” and occasionally rant about issues that need to be addressed by Lawson, but, as your self-appointed Lawson ombudsman, I feel someone’s got to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=246&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Simon&#8217;s New Book: Why New Systems Fail</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/02/12/phil-simons-new-book-why-new-systems-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/02/12/phil-simons-new-book-why-new-systems-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make sure you check out the new book, Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide, by my friend and fellow independent consultant Phil Simon.&#160; The book includes an interview with me on reporting.
 
As Phil spells out in the book, organizations often lack the necessary framework to minimize the chance of system failure before, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=240&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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