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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.…
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Why Isn’t Your ERP System Paying Off? The Answer May Be Hidden in AP

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can bring together critical business data and processes, but according to Tarsilla Moura and her recent ERP Today article, organizations may be overlooking one area that has a major impact on ERP…
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Why Health Systems Are Moving IT Infrastructure to the Cloud in 2026

Healthcare organizations are increasingly rethinking where and how they run their IT infrastructure. According to Elizabeth Stricker, BSN, RN and health technology and leadership expert, in her recent TechTarget article,  the move is being…
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