LawsonSoftware (Nasdaq: LWSN) provides software and service solutions to 4,000 customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance, and service sector industries across 40 countries. Lawson’s solutions include enterprise performance management, supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), manufacturing resource planning (MRP), and enterprise asset management (EAM). Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota (US), Lawson has forty offices worldwide.
Lawson provides open, standards-based software solutions that fundamentally improve customers’ business performance. The open architecture of Lawson’s solutions gives customers superior quality, a low total cost of ownership and a path to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Lawson’s technology platform--Lawson System Foundation 9--combines Lawson's newest technology with world-class middleware from IBM for a high-performance solution that delivers comprehensive security, scalability, and usability. It also preserves customers' choice of hardware platform while providing a foundation for next-generation Lawson applications designed for use within SOA environments.
Lawson is building its next-generation applications using its Landmark technology environment, which dramatically reduces the amount of source code and produces virtually error-free, consistent Java code. This Java-based code delivers interoperability that protects and extends Lawson customers’ existing IT investments while ensuring compatibility with future applications and technologies.
Lawson’s industry focus and flexible product design enables fast and easy deployment. The company’s expertise within its target markets allows its services teams to radically simplify the process of deploying Lawson applications. As a result, customers save time, effort, and expense in implementing, maintaining, and using Lawson applications. In addition, Lawson’s professional services organization provides industry-specific implementation advice focused on best practices and value delivery.
The Lawson M3 Customer Sales and Service Suite is a suite of applications designed for medium-sized enterprises, focusing specifically on revenues and margins.
Lawson solutions for discrete manufacturing
industries are integrated and easy to use. These enterprise-wide solutions allow
users to streamline planning and execution from order to cash, or from purchase to
payment.
Lawson Quickstep for Distribution is a pre-configured
yet flexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) package created specifically for
the needs of small- to medium-sized distribution companies.
The Lawson S3 Portfolio Manager provides a side-by-side analysis of project engagements, whether they’re active projects, or new engagements coming down the pipeline.
Lawson's M3 solution consists of applications covering
CRM, enterprise resource management (ERM), SCM, business performance measurement
(BPM), and e-business and value chain collaboration (VCC).
The Lawson solutions for discrete manufacturing
industries are enterprise-wide offerings focusing on planning and execution from
order to cash, or from purchase to payment, and are designed for both simple and
complex manufacturing environments.
Any process manufacturing company can achieve full value-chain collaboration with Lawson Process Manufacturing, a fully integrated suite of software components that can be implemented individually or as a complete package.
The Lawson M3 Finance suite is designed for customers who want to capture,
analyze and manage all financial information related to their company's
operations.
The Lawson S3 Finance suite helps organizations drive enterprise value
with enhanced information for targeting growth and a platform for
sustainable compliance.
The Lawson M3 Supply Chain Planning
application is a set of modules designed to provide
forecasting, planning, and scheduling for manufacturing and distribution companies.