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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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- What's the value in enterprise software?
- Why should companies and organizations deploy enterprise software? Many software vendors claim their platform provides customers with competitive differentiation. Some vendors make vague promises about the unique and positive qualities associated with their product. As an example, see SAP's advertisements, which promise that "the best run businesses run SAP." Given...
- Tags: ERP, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Keeping SAP and Oracle Honest?
- From an interview in Computerworld with Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software: Some SAP and Oracle accounts acquired Lawson for some of their divisions simply because they don’t want the incumbent vendor to dictate the future terms of business to them and for them to have all their apples in...
- Tags: Vendor relationships
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- C'mon Microsoft, don't be shy
- I disagree with my colleague Josh Greenbaum on several aspects of his analysis of the SAP/Oracle/Microsoft position and specifically around Microsoft. Relegating Microsoft to an also ran position doesn't fit with how I perceive Microsoft Dynamics. Josh asserts:Two data points versus the plethora of filings and comprehensive analyses that Oracle...
- Tags: Enterprise applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Streamlining Operations: How a Financial Services Leader Consolidated Accounting Systems for Over 150 Affiliate Firms With Hosted Lawson Software
- Founded in 1998, National Financial Partners is a national network of independent financial advisors offering financial services to high net worth individuals and growing entrepreneurial companies. To achieve true economies of scale, National Financial Partners needed to standardize and consolidate their accounting processes across all affiliates while meeting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial, Lawson Software Inc., Accounting System, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2007-07-19
- News to know: Microsoft bug disclosure; Apple Airport security; XP SP3; AMD woe
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Responsible disclosure, the Microsoft way.George Ou: Microsoft fights with researcher over Full Disclosure. A tale of two animated cursor attacks.Apple swats Airport Base Station security bugs.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: XP SP3 is still on the schedule for Q1 2008.Microsoft to push fix for patch trouble.Dan Farber: Salesforce.com...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- How you acquire open source projects
- You do it backward.The integration, both personal and technical, occurs before the deal closes. The price, based on sales, is determined afterward.Pentaho CEO Richard K. Daley has done four such deals for the open source business intelligence tool company he heads-up, and calls the process akin to a courtship.The latest...
- Tags: open source, Pentaho
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
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