LawsonGuru Blog
Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community
Oh, so now you’re an expert, huh?
Can’t you just envision this as being a perfect line of Alice Kramden dialogue from an episode of The Honeymooners? Ralph is contriving some plan with Norton, purporting to be “the expert” on whatever scheme is being cooked up. And in steps clear-headed Alice, to utter the deflating question that brings it all back into perspective, “Oh, so now you’re an expert, huh?”
LWSN: Watch Your Back!
For several years now, I’ve been telling Lawson (and anyone else who’s been listening…) that Microsoft–not SAP and not Oracle–is the competitor that Lawson needs to watch out for:
One Of My Hats: "Application Architect"?
A recent CIO magazine article (http://www.cio.com/article/187350/Hot_Jobs_Applications_Architect/1) made me think about some of the roles I fill for my clients.
Lawson’s Install Amnesia
Does anyone else think that when you install a Lawson application, install locations should be remembered for future installs?
Wonders Never Cease
Too clever for your own good?
I’ve never been a fan of complicated scripting, whether it’s shell scripts, Perl, python, or whatever. The reason I don’t like it is because it’s usually written by developers who think they’re being “clever”, when what they are doing is costing their organizations money down the line, since their “solution” will need to be scrapped when no one can understand it.
SAP’s SaaS Scaleback
According to this recent article (http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403609), it seems that SAP’s ambitious plan for offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) to the mid-market was just a wee bit too ambitious:
Who’s Minding the Store?
I know, I know. I pick on Lawson Support too much. Read more of this post
I’ve Been Immortalized!
I guess I can’t complain any more. Lawson finally knows me!
Lawson: "The 6% Solution"
An interesting article in CIO Magazine (http://www.cio.com/article/177300/Why_ERP_Systems_Are_More_Important_Than_Ever).
“More than 85 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that their ERP systems were essential to the core of their businesses, and that they ‘could not live without them.'”
But what jumped out at me were the numbers related to ERP market share. Besides the obvious fact that Oracle’s acquisition streak has bought it a huge market share, I’m still surprised that, according to this article, Lawson only has 6% of the market:
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