LawsonGuru Blog

Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community

Can Lawson Remain Relevant?


Some very interesting developments on the mid-market ERP space:
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No Pain, No Gain?


Sure, it’s a tired adage, but it’s rather fitting.
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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."

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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:

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“We Are All Culpable”


That line comes back to me as I read about a client suing Lawson over a failed implementation.

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The Morphing of the Enterprise Software Vendor Revenue Model


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.
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Tell Us About Your S3 Apps Upgrade


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.

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Troubleshooting "Duplicate Records" in Crystal Reports


If you haven’t discovered Ken Hamady, you need to check out his recent post on troubleshooting “duplicate records”.  This is perhaps the most frustrating issue that report designers encounter when developing reports against Lawson tables.

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Lars, You Need a Cause


I’ve recently noticed some interesting ads, focused on brand loyalty and awareness:

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What’s Your VUE?


imageLawson has announced an interesting service offering, VUE ’09, targeted at those of you who weren’t able to make it to their recent CUE ‘09 conference in San Diego.

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