Lawson announces full-function ERP on Amazon web services

The manufacturing business software is to be included in Lawson's External Cloud Services offering, which is part of the company's new Lawson Cloud Services portfolio. Jeff Comport, Lawson senior vice president of product management, suggests that its External Cloud Services offering (which includes Lawson S3 Enterprise Management System, Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System and Lawson Talent Management) is ideal for midsize manufacturers wanting "a more affordable, flexible and agile deployment option" for full-function enterprise software. By using Amazon EC2, Lawson can provide that faster than ever before, he says. "Lawson External Cloud Services can help make the customer's total ERP experience simpler, faster and better. We are making it easier for our customers to license, use, keep current and even pay for Lawson full-function enterprise software," ," says Comport. " This should be great news for CFOs and CIOs who worry about lengthy and complex on-premise installations, the cost and inefficiency of their data centres, the best way to allocate IT staff, and the complexity and difficulty of maintaining software versions and upgrades." "By leveraging AWS' [Amazon Web Services] highly scalable computing infrastructure, organisations can requisition compute power, storage and other application services in the cloud, paying for only what they use. Customers now have more choice and ways to leverage enterprise class software from Lawson on the AWS cloud," comments Terry Wise, director of partner relations for AWS. Incidentally, Lawson External Cloud Services also features Lawson Test Drive, which begins to change the way Lawson demonstrates its products and how manufacturers purchase ERP software. It allows Lawson wannabes to test products for up to 14 days, using their own business processes and data, before committing to software purchase. And the system can also automate the provisioning or set up of additional software instances, meaning that companies can configure their IT capacity to meet peak transactional demands or to increase system size to accommodate users brought on, for example, by an acquisition or merger.