October 2018

Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community

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.

Quote of the Issue

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." -- Abraham Lincoln

Trending Topics

Hiding Non-Stock Items in RQC We have non-stock items that have never been ordered since we transitioned to Lawson 5 years ago. They still want to keep the info going to EPIC through the clinical bridge so I need to find a way to hide these items from showing in RQC without inactivating in IC11. Any ideas? Read More

Moving from LS/STS to ADFS We have received the notification from Infor that they will no longer be supporting LS/STS for authentication effective March 1, 2019 and are encouraging customers to move to ADFS. I am seeking information on what it would take to convert from LS/STS to ADFS. Did you have to engage an outside consultant to perform this conversion? Any information you can provide would be helpful. Thank you. Read More

Update user's attributes in AD Goal - Capture employee changes from Lawson and update AD attributes with new changes, such as phone number/Manager's info/Activate/Deactivate user. I am planning to read HRHistory table to capture the changes at end of the day into CSV file, then update AD with new information. Is it possible to use syscmd node to run power-shell script to update AD? Read More

Position Control in Lawson (One-to-Many) We are starting to contemplate transitioning our position control from a one-to-one structure to a one-to-many structure and utilizing PA70 to track the Headcount and Total FTE. Would anybody be willing to share how they utilize position control in Lawson? How is the Headcount/FTE Budget calculated to be loaded in Lawson? In talking with Finance they create the budget by calculating the annual salary plus cost of benefits (not necessarily the amount of FTEs that are budgeted). Does anyone utilize the Salary Encumberance on PA70? Read More

Worthwhile Reading

10 surprising uses for analytics in healthcare Everyone is in on the analytics game, but not every organization has something to show for its efforts. Information Management, August 28, 2018 Read More

Tech Trends: Top 8 Priorities for IT Survey data from The Hackett Group show how IT leaders are supporting the business side of their organizations.  Information Week, April 3, 2018  Read More

How to get a failing project back on track While each project is unique and subjected to its own specific risks, there are some universals to heed when it comes to recovering a failing project.  CIO, April 12, 2018  Read More

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John Henley Decision Analytics

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