PeopleSoft and Oracle EBS Are Supported Through 2037. So Why Are Companies Still Retiring Them?

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Oracle has extended Premier Support for PeopleSoft and E-Business Suite 12.2 through at least 2037, and renews that commitment roughly every year. So the “end of life” argument that drives Lawson decommissions doesn’t apply here. And yet…

Why Your ERP Archive Should Live in Your Own AWS Account, Not the Vendor’s

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Most SaaS archiving products work the same way: you send the vendor your data, it lives in their cloud, and you log in to their service to see it. That’s convenient for the vendor. It’s the wrong model for twenty years of payroll, GL, and…

Retiring a Legacy ERP in the Public Sector: Records Law, Open-Records Requests, and Turning the Old System Off

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Public entities run their ERPs longer than anyone. Utilities, school districts, counties, and authorities that installed Lawson or PeopleSoft in the early 2000s are moving now, and the legacy system they leave behind holds two decades of payroll,…

Moving from Lawson S3 to CloudSuite? Here’s What to Do With 20 Years of History

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Every Lawson-to-CloudSuite project hits the same decision about six weeks in: how much history goes to the new system? The migration partner wants as little as possible — open AP, open PO, current-year GL balances, active employees. Finance…

Which Lawson Tables Do You Actually Need to Keep When You Retire the System?

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Somebody on every Lawson decommission project proposes archiving “just the important tables.” It sounds efficient. It’s also how you end up, two years later, unable to answer a question because the table that held the answer wasn’t on…

10 Questions to Ask Before You Choose an ERP Archiving Vendor

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Every ERP archiving vendor will tell you they “preserve your historical data.” That’s table stakes. The differences that matter show up in where the data lives, who can see it, whether the copy is provably complete, and what happens when…

How Long Do You Have to Keep Legacy ERP Data? Retention Requirements by Industry

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“Can we just delete it?” is the first question every decommission project gets, and the answer is almost always no. The second question — “then how long do we have to keep it?” — is the one that actually determines what your archive…

Retiring a Legacy ERP in Healthcare: HIPAA, CMS, and the Data You Can’t Lose

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Hospitals and health systems were among the biggest Lawson customers for two decades, and they’re now among the biggest migrators — to Infor CloudSuite, Workday, Oracle Cloud. Every one of those projects leaves a legacy ERP behind holding…

Data Lake Export vs. Application Archive: Why a Raw Dump of Your ERP Fails the People Who Need It

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When a hosting provider or a migration partner offers to “archive” your legacy ERP, ask exactly one question: after the export, can the AP clerk look up a 2019 vendor payment without a SQL prompt and without seeing everyone’s payroll? If…

What Actually Happens to Your Data When You Decommission a Legacy ERP

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Turning off a legacy ERP is easy. Keeping what’s inside it usable is the hard part, and it’s where most decommission projects go wrong. If you’re the person who owns the Lawson, PeopleSoft, or Oracle EBS environment that finance and…