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March 2025

March 2025

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

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

-- Leo Tolstoy

Trending Topics

Best Practices for migrating from LSF to CloudSuite

What are the best practices for moving from Lawson HR to Infor cloud-suite HCM? Apart from Spreadsheet designer what are other tools to migrate DATA ? How much time does it usually take to migrate from LSF to CloudSuite HCM if there are no customizations?

Pay Rate History to Show All Positions

Does anyone know how to modify payratehistory.htm to show all pay rate changes for the employee? It appears to only show the primary position changes based on the htm code. Read More

How to build a Pre-Prod tenant

After we finished our implementation and ended our hypercare, we had a Pre-Prod tenant created. Does anyone know what is needed to do? Would you recommend engaging Infor or a 3rd Party partner rather than going it alone? Read More

Compass JDBC Driver

I was wondering if there was a way to configure the Compass JDBC Driver to work with Excel. We create a lot of end user tools in Excel with S3 and now that we're moving to Cloud Suite I was hoping there was a way to continue doing this with the data lake. A lot of our current tools include vba code to interact with the data. Even if we had to start using java for these tools that would be fine. Read More

Worthwhile Reading

How to Keep IT Up and Running During a Disaster

Natural disasters can have devastating effects on IT infrastructure. How can you plan for these events and ensure that your IT remains operational when they occur?

Information Week, October 30, 2024

Burnout: A chronic epidemic in the IT industry

IT professionals are reporting exhaustion at alarming levels, and IT leaders must recognize the symptoms and take steps to address contributing factors to avoid increased attrition rates and decreased productivity.

CIO, December 5, 2024

It’s Different IT: Tech Support for Remote Users

How does IT’s approach change when it must provide technical support for remote workforces?

Information Week, October 9, 2024

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Sincerely,

John Henley

Decision Analytics

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