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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 9:02:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | At annual users' conference, the ERP company reveals an expanded partnership with IBM that will bring SaaS capabilities to Lawson's products; announces a new release of its ERP suite. |
| Keywords: | Lawson, IBM, SaaS, software as a service, ERP, user conference, enterprise resource planning, WebSphere, Enterprise Service Bus, M3, Total Care Platinum, environmental compliance |
Before an audience of 4,500 users and partners at its annual CUE customer conference, Lawson Software today announced an expanded relationship with IBM, a new release of its M3 ERP platform for manufacturers, and a plan to support customers' initiatives to track and minimize their impact on the environment. Lawson said it will rely on IBM to host an on-demand version of its ERP offerings. The company also said it has extended its technology partnership with IBM, incorporating IBM's WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) platform into the System Foundation platform on which Lawson's S3 ERP system runs. The new hosted offering — called Lawson Total Care Platinum — represents a first step by Lawson toward what the company hopes will be a full software-as-a-service offering, according to Terry Plath, Lawson's global director for business development. The initial offering will include hosted versions of both Lawson's M3 applications for manufacturers and its S3 applications for service companies. Under the new offering, customers would be required to license the Lawson applications and purchase maintenance contracts as they do currently. On top of that, customers would purchase, on a fixed, per-month basis, hosting and application management services. For a company with 200 named users, Plath said, the hosting and application management services would run about $15,000 per month. [Click to continue] |
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