Entries by Angeli Menta

Four questions to answer before considering a cloud ERP

The Cloud offers a transformational journey for enterprise applications, offering “as-a-Service” capabilities and much more. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) application can greatly benefit from the cloud, keeping systems “current”. Cloverleaf Infotech director Shrikant Navelkar published an article on expresscomputer.in explaining how cloud security for an ERP system can be taken care of by Cloud vendors, […]

Jersey Electricity Energized by Infor and Progressive TSL

Infor recently announced that Jersey Electricity (JE) has commenced a roll-out of a cloud-based Infor EAM solution across its generation and distribution teams. This will be done in conjunction with Infor UK channel partner Progressive TSL. As a long-standing user of Infor’s enterprise asset management (EAM) system, JE recognizes the value of moving its existing […]

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401 – Unauthorized error in ESS

If you receive a 401 or 404 error when accessing ESS pages, you need to make sure that the server users have read/write access on the ESS directories. The directories that need this access are WEBDIR/lawson/xbnnet, WEBDIR/lawson/xhrnet, and WEBDIR/lawson/webappjs. It is important to note that the permsmaint command does not set this security, and it […]

4 Ways Blockchain is Reinventing ERP Systems

Merging systems together is an ongoing trend in the business technology world. Artificial Intelligence (AI) would enhance customer relationship management (CRM), and using both CRM and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems simultaneously would vastly improve the business operations. Another union to consider is Blockchain and ERP. Studies have been done and some have reason to […]

25 Education Technology Predictions for 2021

One of the biggest lifestyle changes many people faced last year as the pandemic hit was in the education sector. Online schooling became the norm for the majority of the year and continues to be the mode of teaching at the start of 2021 for many institutions. An article on capustechnology.com showcases what business minds and […]

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Back up WAS Profiles

Before doing any work on your WebSphere Application Server, it is a good idea to back up the profiles. To do this, navigate to <WAS_HOME>/bin.  Run the command “manageprofiles.bat -listProfiles” to get a list of all the profiles that need to be backed up.  Then run the command: -manageprofiles.bat -backupProfile -profileName <profile name> -backupFile <full […]

ERP software: Pros and cons

The best way to stand out from competition could be as simple as implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Though “simple” may not be the best way to describe the nature of ERP. While an ERP solution can provide plenty of functionalities, including traceability, quality control capabilities, and management of formulas, there are difficult […]

10 Best Practices in Recruitment CRM

An integral part of ensuring business success these days is making sure your company has a recruitment customer relationship management (CRM) in place. Customer satisfaction more than ever is the key competitive advantage. Happy customers establish brand loyalty and retention, bringing more profit and brand awareness. CRM expert Paige Reeve shares an article on Business […]

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LDAPS: Binding LDAP to IP Address or FQDN

While configuring LDAPS, if you try logging into Lawson, and it behaves as if your user doesn’t exist, check the LAWDIR/system/security_authen.log.  You may encounter an error similar to this: Could Not Bind With privileged identity. Thu Dec 3 14:27:49.397 PST 2020 – default–1104671165 – L(2) : Failed to get DN for user: lawson Thu Dec […]