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Customization: Risk vs. Reward

October 15, 2008 · 4 Comments

One of the realities of ERP is that organizations often feel they need to customize to meet their requirements. Customization is a tough choice to make and there really is no good answer. In this article, we’ll examine some of the reasons for customization of your Lawson S3 Applications, why to avoid it, and how to mitigate the risks if you do customize.

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Categories: Customization · ERP · Lawson · Lawson S3 · Thoughts

How Slow Is Your Upgrade?

October 16, 2007 · 1 Comment

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…)

Categories: Customization · Upgrades

So, you want a longer address field?

June 6, 2006 · Leave a Comment

 This is one issue that I always argue against.  Here’s my stock response.  (more…)

Categories: Customization