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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>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/11/18/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-lawson/#comments</comments>
		<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>No Pain, No Gain?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/09/23/no-pain-no-gain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/09/23/no-pain-no-gain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Upgrades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, it&#8217;s a tired adage, but it&#8217;s rather fitting.
We live in exciting times.  The economy may be down, but everywhere I go, recovery is in the air.  Here in the DC metro area, we have some huge infrastructure projects underway:

Addition of high-occupancy toll lanes to the DC Beltway
Extension of the Metro rail line to Dulles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=341&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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		<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>Caution: Rough Patches Ahead</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/08/31/caution-rough-patches-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/08/31/caution-rough-patches-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=335&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>Tell Us About Your S3 Apps Upgrade</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/07/10/tell-us-about-your-s3-apps-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/07/10/tell-us-about-your-s3-apps-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Lawson clients have asked me about what I&#8217;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.

Join our totally-unscientific poll by telling us where you are in the upgrade process.
Posted in Lawson, Lawson S3, Upgrades  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=317&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Troubleshooting &quot;Duplicate Records&quot; in Crystal Reports</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/07/08/troubleshooting-duplicate-records-in-crystal-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/07/08/troubleshooting-duplicate-records-in-crystal-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t discovered Ken Hamady, you need to check out his recent post on troubleshooting “duplicate records”.&#160; This is perhaps the most frustrating issue that report designers encounter when developing reports against Lawson tables.
 If you don’t have a good grasp on the JOINs/relationships that are used in Lawson’s S3 databases, you can really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=307&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lars, You Need a Cause</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/06/24/lars-you-need-a-cause/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/06/24/lars-you-need-a-cause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve recently noticed some interesting ads, focused on brand loyalty and awareness:
 

Tide’s Loads of Hope.&#160; In a nutshell, Proctor &#38; Gamble outfitted a truck with washers and dryers, and they deploy into areas affected by natural disasters, and people line up to do their laundry:



What an awesome idea.&#160; Think about it.&#160; If you were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=280&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your VUE?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/05/07/whats-your-vue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawson has announced an interesting service offering, VUE &#8216;09, targeted at those of you who weren’t able to make it to their recent CUE ‘09 conference in San Diego.
In addition to video content from Harry Debes and Dean Hager (presumably replays of their CUE keynotes), VUE offers virtual access to labs and sessions, interaction with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&blog=1858928&post=281&subd=lawsonguru&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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