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June 2010

The LawsonGuru Letter
Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community
In This Issue
The Icahn Effect
Location of GL Distribution fields for PO20.1
Employee photo on HR11
Step and Grade changes
Auditing Installs
Worthwhile Reading
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Quote of the Issue
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
-- Kurt Vonnegut
The Icahn Effect
Corporate raider Carl Icahn acquires stake in Lawson Software. Not sure what this will mean.  But I can't imagine it will be good.
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Welcome to the latest issue of The LawsonGuru Letter, a free newsletter providing provocative commentary on issues important to the Lawson Software community.  The LawsonGuru Letter is published by-and is solely the opinion of-John Henley of Decision Analytics.
Location of GL Distribution fields for PO20.1
I am trying to access the PO20.1 form GL distribution fields (for GL posting) with an SQL query and I haven't been able to find out where these fields are located.
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Employee photo on HR11
I want to add code to our custom HR11 screen that will show the employee photo. Anyone done this?  Read More...
Step and Grade changes
We currently have 4 base steps for employees. This need to change to 7 steps after July 2010. So an existing employee at step 4 would go to step 7, and an employee at step 3 would go to step 6 and so on. A new employee would start at step 1.  Any thoughts on what is involved in this change? Does each employee have to be manually changed to their new step or is there a simpler way?   Read More...
Auditing Installs
We have external auditors review our system yearly. One thing they requested is that we audit changes made to the system weekly (patches, ctps, etc). We would like to automate this process.  Read More...
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Worthwhile Reading
Is ERP as we know it dying?
With an ever-shrinking number of new deployments, ERP vendors needs to find a new way.
Infoworld, February 25, 2010

Why Business Executives Should Care about a High-Level Data Model
The average businessperson typically is not involved in the physical design of database systems. However, the smart businessperson does need to be involved with high-level data models that define database systems.
InfoManagement Direct, February 25, 2010

PPM Gets Your Projects In Line
Project portfolio management is more about process and behavior than tools.
Information Week, March 8, 2010

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