Transcript Lawson Software

Upgrade Overview
The process, services, tools and
opportunities for success…
Agenda
• Recap of Last Year
• What’s next?
• Upgrade Process / Methodology
• Upgrade Planning Tools and Services
• v7.2.4 – v8.0.2 Upgrade path
Get a Customer, Keep Them Forever...
What did we do last year?
• New Upgrade Strategy
- Dave Thomas - Upgrade Services Manager
• Lawson Owns Upgrades
- We are accountable for your success
• Change Perception
- Who wants to do an upgrade?
• User Group Rollout
- Communicate message to our clients
• Developed Upgrade Service Recommendations deliverable
Why Upgrade?
Why Lawson Clients Upgrade?
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New Products
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Utilize new Features and Functionality
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New Tools
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Adopt new Technology
View Upgrades as an Opportunity for Improvement…!
What’s Next…?
• Continue to build on New Strategy
• Improve tools and deliverables
• Upgrade Planning Managers across all verticals
• UPM’s provide latest upgrade information to all clients
• FREE resource
• Upgrade Training for Lawson resources
• Client Service Managers
• Technical Resources
• Application Consultants
• Enhanced Upgrade Workshop
• Hands on excercises
• Upgrade Programs available prior to Workshop attendance
• Lawson Differences Training enhancements
• Webcast options for some applications
• Specific Application Upgrade Program information included
Starting Your Upgrade
• 1st Step - Call Client Manager (CM)
• Complete Upgrade Client Profile (UCP)
• New Improved UCP now available!
• CM registers you and triggers the delivery of the
Upgrade Information Packet (UIP).
• UIP is the Technical documentation for the Upgrade programs
• Review UCP information with Upgrade Planning
Manager and DigiTerra
• Deliverables to you:
• Lawson Upgrade Service Recommendations – Applications
• Digiterra Technical Scope – Upgrade Program
Starting Your Upgrade
Upgrade Service Recommendations include:
• Upgrade Planning / Project Management
• Lawson CSM assigned to your project
• Application Differences Training
• Public and On-site options available
• Application Consulting
• Business Procedures Review
• Modification elimination going forward to the new version
• Technical Requirements and Training
• New Compiler costs
• Environment Training
• Estimated Time Frame
• Associated Costs
• Project Team Requirements
Lawson Partners and Upgrades
Lawson Partners and Upgrades
Certified Upgrade Partner
• Digiterra
Accredited consultants
• All official Lawson business partners can send
consultants to training that is upgrade path specific
• Partners which have accredited consultants are listed
on support.Lawson.Com
• Individual resource names are available from your CM
The Upgrade Project
Lawson Upgrade Terminology
Upgrade
• Involves moving Data from old version to new
• 6.1 to 7.2 -or- 7.2 to 8.0
Cyclical
• Periodic Update to current release
• 6.1.14 to 6.1.17 -or- 7.2.3 to 7.2.4
Lawson Upgrade Terminology
Migration
• Moving to a new Platform
• all combo’s of UNIX - AS/400 - NT
Conversion
• Non-Lawson data to Lawson
• Data from old modified Lawson to New Vanilla Lawson
• Home grown mainframe GL program to Lawson
• 5.X OE – 8.0
Business
Needs
Analysis
Project
Strategy
Phase
Initial
Project
Planning
Lawson Upgrade
Methodology
Production
Upgrade
Project
Team
Training
Application
Exploration
Business
Procedures
Review
Post
Upgrade
Review
Detailed
Upgrade
Planning
Readiness
Assessment
Recycle as often as necessary
(2-3 test runs typically)
End User
Training
System
Test
Business
Strategy
Session
Test
Upgrade
Upgrade Planning, Tools and Services
Upgrade Planning
When should you plan?
• Start Next Week
• Call CM, work with UPM
• Determine/consider
• Application Differences Training - what type is best
for your project team and end users
• Application Consulting
• Technical requirements and training
• Time Frame
• Associated Costs
• Upgrade Planning should be done in advance
Upgrade Tools and Services
• Upgrade Software
• Free to clients on maintenance
• Upgrade Information Package - (UIP)
• Sent to client once registered via the UCP
• Lawson Upgrade Center – (GSC)
• Support consultants dedicated to Upgrade programs
• support.lawson.com
• v7.2 – v8.0.2 Upgrade Workshop
• Upgrade program training
• Application Differences Training
• Upgrade Consulting
Upgrade Info on support.lawson.com
Information categorized by Platform – AS400, Unix, NT
• Upgrade Checklists
• Application Differences Training Agendas
• Lawson Upgrade Methodology
• Database Differences Documentation
• No longer comes with the UIP (too large)
• Free Application Differences web based presentations (WBT’s)
• Partners
• List of Partners which have Accredited consultants
• UIP Updates/Upgrade Program patches
• FAQ’s and Fact Sheets
Why Upgrade to v8.0.2?
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New Products
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Utilize new Features and Functionality
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Invoice Matching
Project and Activity Accounting (BR)
Canadian Payroll
TaxLocator
New Tools
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Professional Service Automation (PSA)
Enterprise Reporting
OLE DB Object Services
Design Studio
Development Environments for Com+, Java and Lotus Domino
Adopt new Technology
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Lawson.insight User Interface (LIUI) – Portal 2.0 (XML)
View Upgrades as an Opportunity for Improvement…!
V8.0.2 Upgrade Planning
v7.2.4 – v8.0.2 Considerations
• Upgrade Path’s/Application version requirements
• Environment v8.0.1 (not required for v8.0.2 App’s)
• Compiler (required for v8.0.1 Environment)
• Micro Focus ServerExpress for Unix
• Micro Focus NetExpress for NT
• Database and Operating System versions
• Hardware and Disk Space
• Know Your Unique Issues
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Browser standard
Interfaces
Modifications
Web Server
Upgrade Software Status
Upgrade Software Status
UNIX/Windows -- 7.2.4 - 8.0.2
• All Applications (Fin,HR,Proc,Dist) – GA
AS/400 -- 6.1 - 7.X
• GA
• Decommissioned - October 1, 2001
UNIX / NT -- 7.0 - 7.2 (HR only)
• GA
• Decommissioned - October 1, 2001
Questions..?
Thank You!!!