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Category Archives: Support

Not So “New and Improved”

Is this indicative of your experience with Lawson’s “new & improved” knowledge base?

In Whom Do You Trust?

For larger enterprise applications, you typically sign (and pay for) an annual maintenance agreement covering day-to-day support and/or updates.  Or do you?

Even If You Can’t Reproduce It, It’s Still a Bug

It’s one of my pet peeves. "We can’t enter it as a problem unless we can reproduce it."

Caution: Rough Patches Ahead

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:

We All Knew This Day Would Come

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’s Woodward and Bernstein.

There’s Simply No Excuse

Yes, I know.  I’m taking a cheap shot. But this is just ridiculous, and this is not an isolated incident: http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/05/22/wonders-never-cease http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2008/04/29/whos-minding-the-store/ http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/10/22/now-not-serving-number/ And Lawson’s new CIO has been on the job for almost a year.

LWSN Expands Support Options as SAP Narrows

Over the past year or so, Lawson has been expanding their support offerings.  It used to be that you had just one option: “Maintenance and Support”. 

Wonders Never Cease

As they say, “wonders never cease”, or something like that.

Who’s Minding the Store?

I know, I know.  I pick on Lawson Support too much. 

I’ve Been Immortalized!

I guess I can’t complain any more.  Lawson finally knows me!

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