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- Lawson Software
- (Lawson Software, St. Paul, MN, www.lawson.com) A software company that specializes in ERP for vertical markets including health care, retail, public sector, professional and financial services. The company...
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- 10 Tips to Consider When Selecting the "Right" System Integrator to Ensure Success of Your Implementation
- One use to think that evaluating and selecting the "Right" enterprise system was the key to success. Well think again! After much industry consolidation, today's options are dominated by Epicor, Infor, Lawson, Oracle, SAP, Sage, and Microsoft Dynamics solutions with a good number of Best of Breed industry-specific choices sprinkled...
- Tags: Consultant, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-11-24
- Who's the fairest HR product of them all.......
- Every year, I set aside some budget monies to attend a couple of events/shows. I’m fortunate that some software vendors waive some of the costs if I’m covering the event as a press/analyst person. Events are expensive to attend and hurt my chargeability at the same time. I choose carefully...
- Tags: Software, Human Resources Inc., Registration Site, Tools & Techniques, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- TIBCO and SAP: place your bets
- Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Point-counterpoint: Is SCA the limit?
- There's been a blogstorm swirling around Service Component Architecture SCA, and Loraine Lawson has done a great job of summing up both sides of the discussion. To sum up, there are two points of view on the efficacy of SCA: Anti-SCA: "SCA is heavily being driven...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac'
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. RSA Conference: Tom Foremski: A conversation with Check Point's Gil Schwed Symantec CEO: The future of security [video] RSA chief calls for...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, RSA Security Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Enterprise software: are customers being pressured so vendors can make their numbers?
- Enterprise software: are customers being pressured so vendors can make their numbers?Did you see?Hi Joe: not sure if you saw but I wrote about Lawson's position as they put it out yesterday in their CUE09 keynotes.Also, I have been arguing this story almost on a weekly basis ever since SAP...
- Tags: enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- Lawson Software: Positive first impressions
- I'm currently attending Lawson Software's annual conference, called CUE 09, in San Diego. Since this is my first in-depth exposure to the company, I thought it appropriate to share a few thoughts and comments. Overall, I like the company: the people are nice, they articulate product strategy clearly, and senior management obviously...
- Tags: Lawson Software Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Blogger, Blogging, Product Marketing, Internet, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- News to know: Oracle-Sun, IBM, Apple ads, Windows 7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Complete coverage of Oracle-Sun news: Larry Dignan: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Lawson: 'Flat out no to maintenance price reduction but'
- At Lawson Software's CUE09 event, Dean Hagar, Lawson's Senior Vice President, Product Management said that despite the economic recession, the company "Flat out no" will not reduce the company's maintenance charges to its customers. You'd likely resist if it was likely to impact your close to $1 million compensation package....
- Tags: Lawson Software Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Services for hire: SOA as revenue generator
- We've been arguing endlessly across and around the blogosphere and conference circuit about the ability or alleged inability to show ROI from service oriented architecture-related projects. Never mind if SOA helps business revenues, how about breaking even? But in the age of service orientation, one thing is...
- Tags: Revenue, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Accounting, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- How likely is your software to survive the recession?
- How likely is your software to survive the recession?It reminds me of something I read recentlyIt reminds me of something I read recently which said that the cost of migrating off a product if it uses a hidden/proprietary protocol should be included in the purchase assessment so that a better...
- Tags: recession, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-03-22
- SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us
- In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...
- Tags: SOA, Survey, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Got Capital? Lumigent got plenty in a rough market
- Good ideas trump an even dismal economy Recently, Lumigent, a software firm in the GRC space closed a recapitalization round of $6 million USD. Lumigent, an eight-year old firm, expects this to be its last venture backed round of capital as it anticipates profitable operations by next...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Investor, Lumigent, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Government, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Digital Signatures for Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System
- A typical example of the use of digital signatures within the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System involves a user making a change to a document. The originator of the document checks-in the document and routes it to the various signers. Each signer receives an e-mail with a URL directing them...
- Tags: Enterprise Management, Document, Digital Signature, Lawson Software Inc., ARX, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2008-11-26
- SAP: first to hit the buffers
- SAP pre-announced its Q3 results at what could not have come at a worse time for the beleaguered stock market. Although executives were bragging about 4% growth in software sales as though BusinessObjects doesn't exist the reality is that year over year growth was off 9%. Management...
- Tags: Software, SAP AG, U.S. GAAP Software Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Lawson Q109: 'sloppy execution'
- Harry Debes, CEO at Lawson Software doesn't mince his words. So when the company announced its missed Q1 fiscal 2009 results PDF yesterday it came as no surprise that during the earnings call he had this to say about the way the company performed: ...some of this was sloppy...
- Tags: Revenue, Lawson Software Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...
- Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Service, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Hardware, Investment, IPO, Larry Dignan, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Morgan Stanley, Storage, Wall Street
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Lawson success but no saas here
- It didn't escape my Irregular colleagues' attention that Harry Debes, Lawson CEO went on a tear about the viability of the saas model. Anshu Sharma chose not to comment in public but I leave it to astute observers to detect the steam coming out of his ears. ...
- Tags: Lawson Software Inc., Vinnie, Cheryl, Purchasing & Procurement, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
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