Can ERP Be Beautiful?

Gartner ITxpo 2008

Who is Lawson? We develop, service, and support enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for customers in manufacturing and service related industries around the world. We believe we offer more value per dollar invested than any other ERP vendor. If you don’t know Lawson, find out more at:

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Can ERP Be Beautiful?

No generic enterprise solution can meet the needs of all companies. While all companies tend to have similar general goals—such as improving customer relations, reducing inefficiency and expanding visibility across their operations, for example — companies often confront industry-specific obstacles that require different approaches to achieving those goals.

Introducing Lawson Smart Office Not just a user interface, but a whole new kind of user experience!

In light of this, Lawson provides market-leading solutions tailored to meet the specific conditions and requirements of individual industries. Because we truly understand our customers’ industries, we are ideally suited to help them make wellinformed strategic decisions in the areas that matter to them most. Our focus industries include: 4Healthcare 4Food & Beverage Manufacturing 4Fashion Manufacturing 4Distribution 4Equipment Service Management & 4Rental 4Local & Regional Governments 4K-12 Education 4Financial Services/Banking & Insurance

It really is a beautiful thing. A sleek customizable user interface. Productive, happy employees. Data and analytics at your fingertips when you need to make the decisions that mean better organizational performance in today’s economy. That’s the new Lawson Smart Office — an intuitive, personalized user interface that lets you directly access Lawson, Microsoft Office, and other applications. It’s beyond an user interface – it’s an unique user experience. It’s ERP made beautiful. This rich information workplace connects you people, processes, and information. Smart Office brings together Microsoft productivity, mobility, and collaboration tools with Lawson enterprise applications, business intelligence, and business process automation capabilities. Lawson Smart Office allows you to leverage world-class productivity tools to help you access the information you need, when you want it, in the context required — combined with the analytic and Smart Notification® capabilities of Lawson Business Intelligence. It also promotes greater collaboration and real-time information sharing across various business applications, and it does this in an environment designed for dynamic personalization. Business performance and productivity the Lawson Smart Office way…it really is a beautiful thing! Gartner recently published Dataquest Insight: Lawson Raises the Bar With Differentiating ERP User Interface, detailing the Lawson Smart Office user experience and how it compares to competitive offerings. You can download your own copy of this report at http://forms.lawson.com/SmartOfficeReport.

“… this new offering can advance our productivity by providing a dynamic interface that blends the Lawson and Microsoft worlds and fosters richer collaboration...” ~ John Lauer, Manager of Enterprise Systems, Oglethorpe Power

The Strategic Planning Tool to Transform the Way You Do Business Lawson Opportunity Analyzer is a strategic enterprise performance management tool that enables you to set practical business performance targets and identify, in advance, quantified financial and nonfinancial gains before committing capital expenditure to new business process improvement projects. Opportunity Analyzer is Lawson Enterprise Performance Management at its best, backed by solid research and proven through customer successes. Read the case study Gartner wrote regarding how IKEA achieved success in leveraging Opportunity Analyzer to evaluate its strategy and manage the execution of an ERP upgrade. See www.lawson.com/oa.

Revolutionary Technology and Applications Model A Lawson innovation, Landmark is our revolutionary technology and applications model that can enhance your entire Lawson product life-cycle experience, dramatically reduce implementation times, and further lower your total cost of ownership. Based on a service-oriented architecture, Landmark is designed to enable Lawson and its clients to quickly and easily modify and customize business processes for rapidly changing specific business or technology needs.The significant reduction in code and errors and the move to entirely open-standard technology will also help dramatically reduce implementation times and further lower total cost of ownership.

With this technology environment, Lawson offers a backbone of J2EE-compliant Web services for SOAs running on industrystandard platforms, such as IBM WebSphere. Landmark enables Lawson to rapidly develop new services addressing industry or functional-specific business processes without the usual lengthy product development cycle while enabling clients to incorporate Lawson applications and components into new composite applications. Landmark also supports key standards such as WSDL, XML and SOAP. To find out more about the Landmark revolution, talk to a Lawson representative at our ITxpo booth #511 or visit: www.lawson.com/WCW.nsf/pub/ sfos_46A21D.

The Future of Technology and Applications… Today! Lawson M3 7.1 is the latest release in technology and applications specifically designed and developed for the manufacturing, distribution, and maintenance organizations. Lawson M3 7.1 delivers on our commitment to develop and support distinct product lines – one tailored to manufacturing-related sectors and one for service sector organizations.

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By delivering this new technical foundation for the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System, we have separated the applications from the technology and have made it simpler for our customers to move up to the latest release without disrupting their entire organization.

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The Lawson M3 7.1 release follows on the heels of our launch of the Lawson 9 technology and applications release for the Lawson S3 Enterprise Management System. The Lawson 9 release enhances the performance levels of our Lawson S3 products, which are uniquely designed for service organizations.

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Lawson 9 enables customers to incorporate Lawson Landmark-based applications designed to deploy in an SOA. Landmark-based applications will help customers receive industryspecific or functional-specific applications without the usual lengthy product development cycles. This, in turn, allows for the lowest total cost of ownership in ERP systems on the market today. For more information on Lawson M3 7.1 or Lawson 9 technology and applications, please visit www.lawson.com/software.

The New Face of Human Resource Management Lawson Strategic HCM includes Talent Management, Workforce Management and Human Resource Management Suites. While that’s what Strategic HCM is, what it really does is link people to business strategy. You can drive improved performance with Strategic HCM, which includes capabilities to help you manage, develop, and retain employees and improve the ability to identify and develop top talent and emerging leaders. By identifying and optimizing talent, you’ll be better positioned to maximize employee effectiveness and efficiency, ultimately supporting improved profitability. Find out more. Visit www.lawson.com/shcm to find out about the full spectrum of features Strategic HCM offers.

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Through Lawson Professional Services, our customers benefit from one-stopshopping for a broad range of services to support the entire application lifecycle. Our tailored, innovative delivery methods focus on speed, cost, and value. We make it easier for you to analyze, prioritize, and implement best practices to improve your operations. Find out more about a Lawson Professional Services. Visit:

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The Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time In the vast majority of organizations, data exists in multiple applications and databases. Lawson Business Intelligence was developed consistent with the basic premise that it should integrate, with Lawson business applications. This is not an unreasonable expectation. However, Lawson has taken this premise a significant step further, leveraging acclaimed open, standards-based architecture to enable exceptionally fast and easy integration with non-Lawson applications, databases, and even other business intelligence tools. Learn more about the Lawson BI solution. Visit www.lawson.com/lbi to view a demo or read more about Lawson Business Intelligence.

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A Shortcut to Benefit Lawson QuickStep solutions offer a fast track to successful ERP. A preconfigured, industry-specific software, QuickStep includes best practices and processes to streamline and optimize your operations. On average, QuickStep customers experience a 30% faster time-to-benefit with a 30 % reduction in total cost of ownership. Lawson QuickStep solutions are ideal for organizations that want to implement a fully-integrated solution quickly and without major modifications, yet benefit from the flexibility and be able to execute continuous improvement over the long term. Find out more about our unique QuickStep solutions. Visit: www.lawson.com/quickstep.

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