Your Legacy ERP Hosting Provider Gave You an Exit Date. Here’s Your Six-Month Plan.

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It arrives as a polite letter: the managed hosting service for your legacy ERP is being wound down, and you have until a date — often less than a year out — to get off. The provider offers a migration path that turns out to be a copy of…

The Real Cost of Keeping a Legacy ERP Alive Just for Read-Only Access

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Most organizations that move to a new ERP don’t actually retire the old one. They “keep it around for history.” Five years later it’s still there, still patched, still on the DR plan, still consuming a chunk of an administrator’s week,…

Infor Lawson v10 End of Support: What It Means and What Your Options Are

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If you run Infor Lawson S3 on-premises, you’ve probably seen a date. Infor’s published lifecycle currently lists end of maintenance for on-premises Lawson v10 at December 31, 2030, with extended maintenance available for a period after that.…

Updating IdPSigningCertificate for ADFS

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To update the IdPSigningCertificate for Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Token Signing Certificate that has been renewed. Follow these steps: The steps below include the steps to export the Token Signing Certificate from ADFS after…

How to Find Your Database Schema Size in GB (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2)

Before we can prepare an APIX archiving proposal, we need one number from you: the total database schema size, in gigabytes (GB). Below are simple queries for the three most common database platforms. Run the one that matches your environment…

ERP Archiving: The Complete Guide to Archiving a Legacy ERP Application (2026)

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Every ERP migration leaves a system behind. The new platform takes open items and a few years of balances; the old Lawson, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, SAP, or JD Edwards instance keeps everything else — often twenty years of payroll, GL, AP, and…