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Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community
Category Archives: ERP
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
No, this post has nothing to do with Lawson. Except that Lawson S3 supported databases include both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
Can Lawson Remain Relevant?
Some very interesting developments on the mid-market ERP space:
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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."
“We Are All Culpable”
That line comes back to me as I read about a client suing Lawson over a failed implementation.
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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Is LWSN Re-Investing Your Maintenance Fees?
Phil Simon forwarded this blog post about how software companies are “skimping” on R&D, and are using maintenance revenue streams to finance their on-going operations. You—as the software customer—send the vendor some money each year—some to be used for providing you support, but some of it is expected to be used to further enhance the product.
CUE 09 Descends On San Diego
When Lawson CUE was held in San Diego this past April, Lawson invited some software industry bloggers to attend the annual event. I’ll let you read their reviews:
- Frank Scavo’s Enterprise Spectator
- Michael Krigsman’s IT Project Failures
- Ray Wang’s Software Insider’s Point of View
- Vinnie Mirchandani’s Deal Architect
Unlike the LawsonGuru Blog, which targets you—the actual Lawson customer, each of these bloggers targets the larger enterprise software marketplace. But, hey, it’s Lawson’s conference, so they have to right to invite whomever they want.
Alas, I stayed home.
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.
What Lawson Can Learn From IBM
As you know, LawsonGuru.com and Decision Analytics have absolutely no affiliation with Lawson Software. Which makes for a sometimes contentious relationship with Lawson.
Phil Simon’s New Book: Why New Systems Fail
Make sure you check out the new book, Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide, by my friend and fellow independent consultant Phil Simon. The book includes an interview with me on reporting.
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