When Enterprises Should Build, Buy, or Partner for AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making it easier and cheaper to build custom software, but that doesn't necessarily mean companies should start building everything themselves. In a recent ERP Today article, we explore how enterprises should…

Connecting to Amazon Athena via ODBC and Python: Handling SSO and Temporary Credentials

Connecting to Amazon Athena from a client application or script can be straightforward — until you throw SSO authentication, cross-region access, and temporary credentials into the mix. This guide walks through how to configure your Athena…

Fix Data Foundation Before Next ERP or AI Upgrade

Your ERP May Not Be the Problem. Your Data Might Be. For manufacturers, the push toward artificial intelligence (AI) is exposing a problem that has been around for years: unreliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) data can undermine even…

Can ERP Customization Become an AI Advantage?

ERP (enterprise resource planning) customization is often treated as a liability, but when those custom processes reflect a company's genuine competitive strengths, they could give AI (artificial intelligence) something valuable to work with. In…

ERP: All-you-can-eat buffet or boutique restaurant?

Choosing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system isn't just about how many features a system offers. It's also about how much of that functionality a business will actually use and how the pricing model reflects that usage. In his recently…

Lawson Landmark – ‘Error 1069: the service did not start due to a logon failure’ Resolution

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Summary: Lawson Process Server Administrator will not start or your Infor ION Grid Bootstrap service won’t start.   To resolve this, follow these steps: This is an error when the service won’t start (see the screenshot below) Or…

6 ERP trends for 2026 and beyond: CIOs rethink core systems

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is entering a major period of change as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud migration, support deadlines and newer modular technologies push companies to rethink their core business systems. In his CIO article,…

Lawson Decommissioning: How to Retire Infor Lawson Without Losing Your History

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You've picked the replacement. Maybe it's Workday, Oracle Cloud, UKG, or Infor CloudSuite. The go-live date is on the calendar. And yet Lawson is still running, because nobody can say with confidence that it's safe to turn off. That's the…

Avoiding the ERP hangover

Going live with a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system is a major milestone, but the real challenge is what happens after the implementation team leaves and the project roadmap disappears. In his CIO article, Michael Bertha, a partner…

Getting Started with parquet-tools: A Handy CLI for Parquet Files

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Parquet is a popular columnar storage format in the data world, widely used with Hadoop, Spark, and cloud-based analytics platforms like Athena. While Parquet files are efficient and compact, inspecting their contents without loading them into…
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