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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

Lawson’s Install Amnesia

May 29, 2008 · 1 Comment

Does anyone else think that when you install a Lawson application, install locations should be remembered for future installs? 

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Categories: LSF9 · Lawson · Lawson S3 · Rants

Applying the Change Function to LWSN

September 26, 2007 · 3 Comments

Last summer’s reading included a significant and highly-relevant book, “The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn” (see http://www.amazon.com/Change-Function-Technologies-Others-Crash/dp/B000NA6U2O) by Pip Coburn.  As I was reading, I naturally started to draw some parallels to some Lawson initiatives.    (more…)

Categories: LSF9 · Landmark

Lawson’s Quality Crisis…The More Things Change…

June 6, 2007 · 2 Comments

A number of years ago, I wrote a LawsonGuru Letter article titled “Lawson’s Quality Crisis”.  I really had high hopes that Lawson was turning the corner on these problems as part of their various initiatives (including their adoption of better CMM practices, the Xansa partnership, etc.)

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Categories: LSF9 · LWSN · Landmark · Rants · Support

David Williams shares some secrets on moving your ProcessFlow v8 .flo files to LSF9

March 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

 David Williams from Paradigm ERP is a frequent LawsonGuru Letter Guest Spot contributer.  He also has a blog on Lawson ProcessFlow. (more…)

Categories: LSF9 · ProcessFlow · Upgrades

Lawson SSO…or SOS?

January 11, 2007 · 8 Comments

One of the highly touted new LSF9 features is Lawson Single-Sign-On (SSO).
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Categories: LSF9 · Rants

Why Software Sucks, Lawson-Style

January 3, 2007 · 1 Comment

Does Lawson’s software suck?  (more…)

Categories: LSF9 · LWSN · ProcessFlow · Rants

Lawson ProcessFlow:You own it. Use it.

September 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment

ProcessFlow.  Most Lawson clients don’t understand it.  You may not even realize that you own it.  Or appreciate its potential. (more…)

Categories: LSF9 · ProcessFlow

The Broken Chain & Lawson 9.0

December 20, 2005 · Leave a Comment

Over the past few months, my wife and I have been tooling along our local bike trails. This came to a surprise halt a few weeks ago. First indication of a problem was that my chain was slipping every now and then as I pedaled hard up a hill. This time was no different, as the chain slipped a couple of times. No problem, I figured—I’d just take my bike into the local shop and have them give it the once-over. 
 
We only had a couple more hills to climb (thankfully, the people in the parks department have managed to put most of the trails along some old railway lines). Then, bam! The chain snapped clean in two. This meant a long walk home, and plenty of time to contemplate the meaning of this, in Lawson terms, of course. (You know that I’d come to that part eventually, didn’t you?).

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Categories: LSF9 · Landmark