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Release Schedule for Infor Lawson V10 Products for On-Premises and Single-Tenant Customers

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In 2024, the release schedule for Infor Lawson V10 products deployed on-premises and on single-tenant cloud platforms will undergo a change. Instead of the March and September releases observed in 2023, these products will now follow a schedule with releases in April and October.

 

Additionally, Lawson Enterprise Applications Maintenance Service Packages (MSP) will be provided annually, synchronizing with the October release.

 

Critical bug fixes for products will still be promptly delivered as needed, encompassing security patches and updates addressing date-sensitive statutory and regulatory compliance requirements.

 

If you have any questions about the new update schedule, reach out to your managed service provider, or your Infor Account Team.

 

Great news!  Nogalis provides Managed Services for all your Infor Lawson products.  Find out more here!

 

Storage technology explained: AI and data storage

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have changed the automation landscape and the fundamentals to IT. Antony Adshead, Storage Editor at Computer Weekly, shares a post detailing storage technology and AI’s effects on data storage. Storage becomes a key part of AI, to supply data for training and store the potentially huge volumes of data generated, or during inference when the results of AI are applied to real-world workloads, Adshead notes.

What are the key features of AI workloads? “There are three key phases and deployment types to AI workloads:

  1. Training, where recognition is worked into the algorithm from the AI model dataset, with varying degrees of human supervision;
  2. Inference, during which the patterns identified in the training phase are put to work, either in standalone AI deployments and/or;
  3. Deployment of AI to an application or sets of applications.”
What are the I/O characteristics of AI workloads? “Training and inferencing in AI workloads usually requires massively parallel processing, using graphics processing units (GPUs) or similar hardware that offload processing from central processing units (CPUs). Processing performance needs to be exceptional to handle AI training and inference in a reasonable timeframe and with as many iterations as possible to maximize quality. Infrastructure also potentially needs to be able to scale massively to handle very large training datasets and outputs from training and inference. It also requires speed of I/O between storage and processing, and potentially also to be able to manage portability of data between locations to enable the most efficient processing.”

What kind of storage do AI workloads need? “The task of storage is to supply those GPUs as quickly as possible to ensure these very costly hardware items are used optimally. More often than not, that means flash storage for low latency in I/O. Capacity required will vary according to the scale of workloads and the likely scale of the results of AI processing, but hundreds of terabytes, even petabytes, is likely.

Storage for AI projects will range from that which provides very high performance during training and inference to various forms of longer-term retention because it won’t always be clear at the outset of an AI project what data will be useful.”

Is cloud storage good for AI workloads? “Cloud storage could be a viable consideration for AI workload data. The advantage of holding data in the cloud brings an element of portability, with data able to be “moved” nearer to its processing location. Many AI projects start in the cloud because you can use the GPUs for the time you need them. The cloud is not cheap, but to deploy hardware on-premise, you need to have committed to a production project before it is justified. “

 

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Work Units Not Triggered after Landmark Update

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If you have services for approval or other types of flows in IPA, and they stop getting triggered after a Landmark update, it is possible that you need to repackage and redeploy the LPS jars.  This is good practice after a Landmark CU anyway.

  1. On the Landmark server, open a Landmark command window
  2. Run the command “packageLPSClientJars”
  3. Copy the LASYSDIR/LPS/LPSClientJars.jar file to the Lawson server at GENDIR/bpm/jar
  4. Run commands stoppfem and stoppfrmi
  5. Navigate to GENDIR/bpm/jar in a command window with environment variables set
  6. Run tar -xvf LPSClientJars.jar
  7. Run commands startpffrmi and startpfem
  8. If the changes don’t take effect, reboot the Lawson server

 

How cloud migration impacts modern network security

When compared to on-premise environments, the benefits of being on the cloud is exponentially better. Paul Wagenseil, custom content strategist for CyberRisk Alliance, shares an informative article on their website on the impacts on cloud migration and the modern network security platform. In April 2024, the CyberRisk Alliance (CRA) Business Intelligence surveyed 202 security and IT managers, executives and practitioners and found that in the previous 12 months, 93% of respondents migrated some share of their workloads to the cloud. Forty-two percent said more than half their workloads were cloud-based, while 16% said more than three-quarters were. Likewise, in Check Point’s 2022 Cloud Security Report, 98% of respondents said their organizations used “some form of cloud-based infrastructure,” and 76% used more than one cloud service provider (CSP), including private cloud deployments. One surveyor remarked, “The cloud gives us scalability. If we need a new server, we can spin that up in minutes rather than waiting on equipment purchase for on-prem. It lets us focus more on application support … rather than focusing on worrying about infrastructure.”

However, with any new technology comes risks. Securing a cloud-based or hybrid network with both cloud and on-premise elements is different from securing a fully on-premise network. Wagenseil notes that assets, application servers, and databases are often scattered among different cloud instances, or between cloud and on-prem servers, sometimes even with the same asset sharing space in multiple environments. “Network-security practitioners can no longer draw a ring around a core group of assets and declare that they are protected,” he says. “Instead, security tools and personnel have to follow each asset, each set of data and each user and create protections around them individually. This can lead to a radically different concept of network topology and security and requires drastic retraining of security personnel.” The biggest risk is often human error and misunderstanding on how the cloud network functions. “Misconfigurations are among the top risks facing cloud users,” says Wagenseil. “Check Point’s 2022 Cloud Security Report found that, for 33% of organizations, the complexity of their cloud environments makes it challenging to rapidly identify and correct misconfigurations before they can be exploited by an attacker. Likewise, CRA’s 2024 report put misconfiguration vulnerabilities at the top of the list of common cloud security-related incidents, with 35% of respondents citing such an incident in the past year.” Organizations should dedicate their efforts to fully learning their new cloud environments, and seek multiple resources such as written guides or IT partners. This way they can completely grasp their cloud networks and not need to worry about messing up their network security.

 

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Infor Launches Industry Specific GenAI and ESG Reporting Capabilities

Infor recently announced the launch of Infor GenAI and ESG Reporting to help customers improve productivity and report on their environmental footprint. Per the press release, Infor’s modern solutions, from industry-leading ERPs to supply chain solutions, run critical operations in manufacturing, distribution, healthcare and public sector, and the power of GenAI combined with unique industry capabilities and insights give customers immediate power to leverage the right data and workflows to help realize more value more quickly. Additionally, the solutions adhere to stringent security and data privacy best practices driven by Infor’s OS platform. Soma Somasundaram, Infor’s President and Chief Technology Officer, comments, “We’re constantly listening to customers’ pain points and anticipating opportunities that allow customers to be successful and competitively advantaged. When it comes to building solutions that are hyper-productive, our vision is to minimize the time customers spend in applications so that they can maximize their time focusing on their specialized work and creating value. Achieving this requires more than just humans and artificial intelligence working together. It also requires the right, understanding of industry subsegments and individual workflows. As a company built around industry specificity, Infor understands the context of how people work so that we can build those best practices into our products to help enhance productivity. Infor GenAI is designed with this in mind.” Further, Infor ESG Reporting helps customers address the increased pressure and changing requirements from internal and external stakeholders to report on their environmental footprint. With Infor ESG Reporting, customers have the data and analytics to help drive more meaningful, measurable, and actionable change, while reporting on their environmental footprint with improved accuracy, transparency, and consistency.

 

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Error updating user: returned identity already exists

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Are you getting this error when updating a user’s record in ISS stating

loadResource(): returned identity [User:] already exists?

 

If so, then this error is due to missing extended attributes in LDAP. The extended attributes are what allow ISS to know that the user exists in LMK and are created when a user is added via ISS or the user is included in a sync.

Simply run a full sync via the ISS webpage to create the extended attributes

 

To prevent this issue going forward you should add a list-based sync to the user add process. This should resolve the error completely.

 

Infor’s product update – what buyers can expect to encounter

Tech expert Brian Sommer shares an article on Diginomica highlighting Infor’s product update presentation earlier this March. The almost 2-day event at their New York HQ covered many innovations that the enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor has been working on in recent years. Sommer provides key takeaways below:

 

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Upcoming Events April 2024

Mark your calendars for Nogalis’ spring webinar below!

 

Infor Managed Services for Lawson and CloudSuite

Hosted by: Nogalis

When: Thursday, April 25th, 2024 from 9:00 to 10:00 AM (US/Pacific)

Are you struggling with maintaining and managing your Infor applications? Do you wonder if you are getting the most out of your investment?

Join us as we discuss case studies of our managed service customers and how they are:

  • Reducing operating costs by 40%
  • Reducing downtimes by 90%
  • Getting the most value out of their Infor applications

When: Thursday April 25, 2024

9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT

 

Register Now

How to Do a Spreadsheet Designer

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Using Spreadsheet Designer

Go to the field and do a Ctrl + shift and left click on your mouse, this will give you the Business class that you will need to have and the name of the field.  In this example we will be looking at the Employee business and the field Work Type

 

Let’s open up Excel and go to the Infor tab, and we will be doing a query. Go to the Insert Query and click on the drop down arrow

This box will appear, do a drop down and pick the environment name for your Data Area

 

In the second box, we will be typing in the business class, in this example it will be Employee

 

As you are typing in the second box the business class will appear

 

Now you see all the field that you can pick from under Employee Business Class. The ones that are Orange are required fields and need to be in your Query.  The Employee is the Employee ID number

 

We will be using for this example the following fields,

HROrganization

Employee

Name.FullPresentationName

 

Scroll down and pick

StartDate

Adjusted Start Date

Relationship to Org

Relationship Status and click on Insert

 

Go to the Employee and rich click on your mouse, pick Add to Filter

 

Go to the bottom of the Insert, and you will see Employee. Next to Employee, under Value enter your Employee ID number.

 

Like Below

 

Now click off that field

 

Go to Refresh at the top of the page by the Infor sign and do a drop down

 

We will be clicking on Refresh

 

This box will appear

Your Information will appear,

 

Now let add Work Type to our report, Find the Field Work Type and check the box,

Click on Refresh again and the Work Type Information will be part of your Report