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Entries categorized as ‘Upgrades’
No Pain, No Gain?
September 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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.
We All Knew This Day Would Come
March 27, 2009 · 2 Comments
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.
Categories: ERP · LSF9 · Lawson · Lawson S3 · Support · Thoughts · Upgrades
Are You Aligned?
January 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
We always hear a lot about IT alignment. That is, how aligned your IT goals are with goals of your business? Usually, these are addressed in a macro view, but rarely in micro. But what about within the IT organization itself? Are its goals aligned internally within IT?
Whatever Happened to “Upgrade While Active”??
November 8, 2007 · 5 Comments
During the 7.2 -> 8.0 Applications upgrade cycle, Lawson introduced “Upgrade While Active” (at CUE 2003 I think…). This changed the upgrade process to reduce the downtime required to move the data from between application product lines as part of the upgrade.
The 8.0 -> 9.0 Applications were rewritten to use the Java-based sqldbcopy, and table data is copied between product lines/databases directly on the database server rather than the previously-used dump/load method. This, of course, speeds things up dramatically. (more…)
Categories: Upgrades
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
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
Are You Active About Upgrading?
April 1, 2003 · Leave a Comment
This past month, I attended one of the numerous Lawson "Upgrade Road Shows" being presented to the various user groups. If you’re a Unix or Windows NT/2000 client still running v7.2.x applications, you no doubt know by now that Lawson’s support for these applications will end on May 31, 2004.
Categories: Lawson CUE · Lawson S3 · Upgrades
Counting to Six (Sigma,that is)
April 1, 2003 · Leave a Comment
In the coming months, Microsoft will be releasing some tools for implementing Six Sigma methodologies in your workgroups and enterprise. There are some niche Six Sigma software offerings, but with Microsoft targeting it, you had better believe that Six Sigma will “go mainstream”. They’ve done it before, with OLAP, and chances are that Microsoft will do it again with Six Sigma.
Categories: Lawson CUE · Lawson S3 · Upgrades
