• The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
Menu
  • The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Lawson Signs Customers to Software Contracts

    August 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

    The customer news came fast and furious from Lawson Software last week, as the St. Paul, Minnesota, ERP software developer unveiled a slew of licensing deals for S3, M3, and other products.

    Lawson kicked off the customer announcements last week with IKEA, the iconic modular furnishings retailer based in Sweden that has been a big M3 customer since the Intentia days (prior to Lawson’s acquisition of Intentia). In 2004, IKEA started using Lawson’s Opportunity Analyzer (OA), a business modeling tool, to help it get the most out of its ERP implementation.

    As part of its OA program, Lawson reports, IKEA created various key performance indicators (KPIs) to help it monitor specific areas of the business singled out for improvement. As a result of the exercise, IKEA was able to increase its profitability and product availability, and reduce order processing time. Detailed results of the program can be viewed in a Gartner report accessible at forms.lawson.com/forms/ikeareport.

    Another European company standardizing on M3 (which stands for “make, move, and maintain”) is Böllhoff Group, a supplier of fastening, assembly, and systems technology with operations in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. The company first started using M3 in its French operation in 2002, and last week Lawson announced it had selected M3 as its company-wide ERP standard.

    “Our common ERP system has laid the foundation for optimizing our national and international inter-company processes,” says Michael Hielscher, head of IT application development at Böllhoff. The company is running an IBM WebSphere-integrated version of M3 on an i5 Model 550, a Lawson spokesman says.

    Lawson kept the ball rolling with several other customer wins, including ProHealth, which licensed Lawson Talent Management; the city of Santa Ana, California, which will implement Lawson’s S3 (which stands for “staff, source, and serve”), including financial management, human resource, supply chain management, and business intelligence; and the University of Southern California Care Medical Group, which has licensed various S3 components, including financial management, human resources, supply chain management, and performance management.



                         Post this story to del.icio.us
                   Post this story to Digg
        Post this story to Slashdot

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Tags:

    Sponsored by
    OCEAN User Group

    OCEAN TechCon25 Online

    It’s an Exciting Time for IBM i !

    July 16 & 17, 2025 – ONLINE

    Two virtual days of learning, presented by an outstanding group of IBM’ers and IBM Champions, featuring leading-edge topics.

    FREE for OCEAN members!

    Register NOW!

    Annual (12-month) Individual OCEAN Memberships are $80 and a Corporate Membership is $250. A Corporate Membership would allow your entire company to have full access to the OCEAN website & video library and to attend OCEAN events at member rates. Act now because rates are increasing on August 1, 2025.

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Sponsored Links

    Infinite Software:  Migrate System i RPG or COBOL apps to Linux, Windows or Unix
    COMMON:  Join us at the Focus 2008 workshop conference, October 5 - 8, in San Francisco, California
    Computer Measurement Group:  CMG '08 International Conference, December 7-12, Las Vegas

    IT Jungle Store Top Book Picks

    Easy Steps to Internet Programming for AS/400, iSeries, and System i: List Price, $49.95
    Getting Started with PHP for i5/OS: List Price, $59.95
    The System i RPG & RPG IV Tutorial and Lab Exercises: List Price, $59.95
    The System i Pocket RPG & RPG IV Guide: List Price, $69.95
    The iSeries Pocket Database Guide: List Price, $59.00
    The iSeries Pocket Developers' Guide: List Price, $59.00
    The iSeries Pocket SQL Guide: List Price, $59.00
    The iSeries Pocket Query Guide: List Price, $49.00
    The iSeries Pocket WebFacing Primer: List Price, $39.00
    Migrating to WebSphere Express for iSeries: List Price, $49.00
    iSeries Express Web Implementer's Guide: List Price, $59.00
    Getting Started with WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries: List Price, $79.95
    Getting Started With WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries: List Price, $89.00
    Getting Started with WebSphere Express for iSeries: List Price, $49.00
    WebFacing Application Design and Development Guide: List Price, $55.00
    Can the AS/400 Survive IBM?: List Price, $49.00
    The All-Everything Machine: List Price, $29.95
    Chip Wars: List Price, $29.95

    Workplace Service Firm Licenses Lawson’s i OS-based ERP Automatic or Static Storage?

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Volume 8, Number 31 -- August 26, 2008
THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY:

ASNA
Aldon
looksoftware
Bytware
RJS Software Systems

Table of Contents

  • A Bumblebee for BI–Now That’s Just ‘Smart’
  • Curbstone Gains PCI Compliance for i OS Payment System
  • Life is Easy for iPhone Apps on the Morph Labs Cloud
  • WebClient for CA Plex 1.4 Now Available
  • Avnet to Resell VDoc Content Management Suite in U.S.
  • SNMP Software from COMTEK Gives Up Lock on QSYSOPR
  • Lawson Signs Customers to Software Contracts
  • RJS Software to Sell Security Software from Sophos
  • ProData Launches Online Forum for DBU Users
  • Moshi Moshi Saga Continues at Bytware

Content archive

  • The Four Hundred
  • Four Hundred Stuff
  • Four Hundred Guru

Recent Posts

  • With Power11, Power Systems “Go To Eleven”
  • With Subscription Price, IBM i P20 And P30 Tiers Get Bigger Bundles
  • Izzi Buys CNX, Eyes Valence Port To System Z
  • IBM i Shops “Attacking” Security Concerns, Study Shows
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 26
  • Liam Allan Shares What’s Coming Next With Code For IBM i
  • From Stable To Scalable: Visual LANSA 16 Powers IBM i Growth – Launching July 8
  • VS Code Will Be The Heart Of The Modern IBM i Platform
  • The AS/400: A 37-Year-Old Dog That Loves To Learn New Tricks
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 25

Subscribe

To get news from IT Jungle sent to your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter.

Pages

  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Contributors
  • Four Hundred Monitor
  • IBM i PTF Guide
  • Media Kit
  • Subscribe

Search

Copyright © 2025 IT Jungle