4 Ways Procurement Has to Change in the Postmodern ERP Era

Brian Utley, Periscope Holdings, presents game-changing realizations about what government organizations expect from modern procurement functions and digital investments in this Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technological age.  Below…
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5 Skills to Look for When You Hire a Data Scientist

Leigh Martin, Senior Director, Dynamic Science Labs, Infor discusses how big data analytics have gone mainstream, with the demand for people with the right skills to turn data into insights is scarce. Martin shares 5 skills that define a…
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Getting the most out of your Lawson Data

In this webinar we discuss some of the reporting and BI options available to use with your Lawson data. The main options covered are: Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson (aka LBI) Microsoft Addins Crystal Reports SSRS …
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Infor Completes Acquisition of Starmount

Infor announced the completion of their acquisition of Starmount, a modern store systems provider serving large and mid-market retailers with point-of-sale, mobile shopping assistant, and store inventory management products along with cross-channel…
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Scheduling a Process in IPA

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Upload Your Process from IP Designer Log into IP Designer Create a new process Upload the process to your server by clicking the up arrow icon , or by clicking: Tools > Manage Processes > Select Open Process …
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Scan for Files in IPA

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Open Infor Rich Client  At the login prompt, enter the Lawson username and password The canvas is now open. Look in the upper left corner and make sure you are pointing to the prod or test data area (not gen)  In the upper right…
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Troubleshooting BSI Database Connection during Install

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Your install is successful, but when you log on to the BSI Interface (Screen Print #1) you receive an error (Error Message. Exception is: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Login failed for…
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How to tune the performance of a Lawson 4GL program

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Lawson programs, especially batch jobs, can sometimes take hours to complete. In rare instances, a badly written 4GL batch job can even take days to complete depending on the number of records it has to process and how it goes about doing so.…
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Infor Acquires Predictix

Six months after announcing their strategic investment, Infor acquires Predictix, continuing to push to modernize the retail industry. A ground-breaking provider of cloud-native, predictive, and machine-learning solutions for retailers, Predictix…
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How to transfer a user’s jobs from one productline to another using jobdump and jobload

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Note: Though possible, I would not recommend using jobdump and jobload from one version of Lawson to another as fields may change. Use at your own risk.   For this article, we will be doing jobdump and jobload in v10 between Prod…
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