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03 Apr '10
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A subscription pricing option is also available for customers who choose to run new Lawson products available through Lawson External Cloud Services offerings on AWS. Lawson Flexible Subscription also allows the customer to convert the subscription license to a perpetual license at the end of the subscription contract. Customers can choose the deployment model and licensing option that best meets their needs and budgets, and Lawson will host, manage and maintain the software for customers using AWS.
Lawson External Cloud Services features three Lawson flagship product lines – Lawson S3 Enterprise Management System, Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System and Lawson Talent Management. Lawson Talent Management is focused on human resource organizations, providing them with valuable insight into workforce data. It helps organizations and employees derive greater value through performance management and performance reviews by delivering actionable information about employees linked directly to business strategies.
“This offering includes financial, HR, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement and other core processes. These are not the lightweight versions you find from niche vendors or the one-size-fits-all offerings from other providers. It's the same software our customers can deploy in their own data centers but now can be placed off-premise and run and accessed from anywhere in the world on AWS,” said Comport.
By using AWS, Lawson is able to offer its customers ownership and control of their software. Lawson customers share Amazon EC2 infrastructure to drive down costs but are not forced to share their software with other customers. Lawson External Cloud Services will allow customers to choose a level of customization that best meets their needs. This flexibility preserves what is unique to a customer's business or organization. AWS offers Lawson computing capacity that scales to Lawson's overall demand and, as a result, customers pay only for what they use.
“Our customers aren't commodities. They want their software for their business and not some vanilla commodity software offering,” said Comport. “Commodity software may be good for the vendor but not necessarily the customer. Our customers want to choose the software, deployment option and maintenance schedule best for their business. Advances in cloud computing, virtualization technology and the automation of IT administrative tasks now make it possible for us to cost effectively deliver and manage single-instance ownership and make it affordable for our customers. This is an evolution of enterprise software deployments.”
Scott County, a Lawson customer located near Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minn., is among the first Lawson customers to move to Amazon EC2. Scott County, hosted by Lawson Managed Services since 2007, has directed Lawson to place its S3 applications on AWS for disaster recovery purposes. “Our testing has shown it to be safe, reliable and secure and Lawson made the move to AWS simple and easy,” said Kevin Ellsworth, chief financial officer at Scott County. “We consider ourselves pioneers in virtualization and once we understood the benefits of having Lawson host our disaster recovery on AWS, we asked ourselves: 'why wouldn't we do this?' This helps us maximize our returns on our technology investments.”
Lawson External Cloud Services features three Lawson flagship product lines – Lawson S3 Enterprise Management System, Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System and Lawson Talent Management. Lawson Talent Management is focused on human resource organizations, providing them with valuable insight into workforce data. It helps organizations and employees derive greater value through performance management and performance reviews by delivering actionable information about employees linked directly to business strategies.
“This offering includes financial, HR, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement and other core processes. These are not the lightweight versions you find from niche vendors or the one-size-fits-all offerings from other providers. It's the same software our customers can deploy in their own data centers but now can be placed off-premise and run and accessed from anywhere in the world on AWS,” said Comport.
By using AWS, Lawson is able to offer its customers ownership and control of their software. Lawson customers share Amazon EC2 infrastructure to drive down costs but are not forced to share their software with other customers. Lawson External Cloud Services will allow customers to choose a level of customization that best meets their needs. This flexibility preserves what is unique to a customer's business or organization. AWS offers Lawson computing capacity that scales to Lawson's overall demand and, as a result, customers pay only for what they use.
“Our customers aren't commodities. They want their software for their business and not some vanilla commodity software offering,” said Comport. “Commodity software may be good for the vendor but not necessarily the customer. Our customers want to choose the software, deployment option and maintenance schedule best for their business. Advances in cloud computing, virtualization technology and the automation of IT administrative tasks now make it possible for us to cost effectively deliver and manage single-instance ownership and make it affordable for our customers. This is an evolution of enterprise software deployments.”
Scott County, a Lawson customer located near Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minn., is among the first Lawson customers to move to Amazon EC2. Scott County, hosted by Lawson Managed Services since 2007, has directed Lawson to place its S3 applications on AWS for disaster recovery purposes. “Our testing has shown it to be safe, reliable and secure and Lawson made the move to AWS simple and easy,” said Kevin Ellsworth, chief financial officer at Scott County. “We consider ourselves pioneers in virtualization and once we understood the benefits of having Lawson host our disaster recovery on AWS, we asked ourselves: 'why wouldn't we do this?' This helps us maximize our returns on our technology investments.”
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