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Can Lawson Remain Relevant?

October 1, 2009 · 3 Comments

Some very interesting developments on the mid-market ERP space:
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Categories: ERP · LWSN · Lawson · Lawson M3 · Lawson S3 · Thoughts

No Pain, No Gain?

September 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Sure, it’s a tired adage, but it’s rather fitting.
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Categories: Thoughts · Upgrades

Caution: Rough Patches Ahead

August 31, 2009 · 2 Comments

Recently posted on a LawsonGuru.com forum:

Has anyone encountered any problems when moving to ESP 7?
We are preparing to move to ESP 7 and are not aware of any problems, but if anyone has any bad experiences, please share.

This was immediately responded to by a user who said:

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Categories: Patches · Rants · Support · Thoughts

The Morphing of the Enterprise Software Vendor Revenue Model

July 11, 2009 · 4 Comments

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.
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Categories: CRM · ERP · LWSN · Lawson

Tell Us About Your S3 Apps Upgrade

July 10, 2009 · 2 Comments

Several Lawson clients have asked me about what I’m hearing about the Lawson S3 applications upgrades.  As you know, Lawson S3 apps will be decommissioned in 2010, and clients are in various stages of the upgrade.

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Categories: Lawson · Lawson S3 · Upgrades

Troubleshooting “Duplicate Records” in Crystal Reports

July 8, 2009 · 1 Comment

If you haven’t discovered Ken Hamady, you need to check out his recent post on troubleshooting “duplicate records”.  This is perhaps the most frustrating issue that report designers encounter when developing reports against Lawson tables.

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Categories: Crystal · LBI

Lars, You Need a Cause

June 24, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’ve recently noticed some interesting ads, focused on brand loyalty and awareness:

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Categories: Lawson · Lawson CUE · Thoughts

What’s Your VUE?

May 7, 2009 · 2 Comments

imageLawson has announced an interesting service offering, VUE ‘09, targeted at those of you who weren’t able to make it to their recent CUE ‘09 conference in San Diego.

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Categories: Lawson · Lawson CUE · Thoughts

CUE 09 Descends On San Diego

April 27, 2009 · 10 Comments

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:

Unlike the LawsonGuru Blog, which targets you—the actual Lawson customer, each of these bloggers targets the larger enterprise software marketplace.  But, hey, it’s Lawson’s conference, so they have to right to invite whomever they want.

Alas, I stayed home.

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Categories: ERP · Harry Debes · LWSN · Landmark · Lawson · Lawson CUE · Lawson M3 · Lawson S3

We All Knew This Day Would Come

March 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

Your Paper, Sir?

Dog Fetching Newspaper 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’s Woodward and Bernstein.

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Categories: ERP · LSF9 · Lawson · Lawson S3 · Support · Thoughts · Upgrades