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Lawson S3 Human Capital Management 8.1.x by Lawson Software

Lawson S3 Human Capital Management Overview

Lawson S3 Human Capital Management
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Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) provides software and service solutions to 4,000 customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance, and service sector industries across 40 countries. Lawson’s solutions include enterprise performance management, supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), manufacturing resource planning (MRP), and enterprise asset management (EAM). Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota (US), Lawson has forty offices worldwide.

Lawson provides open, standards-based software solutions that fundamentally improve customers’ business performance. The open architecture of Lawson’s solutions gives customers superior quality, a low total cost of ownership and a path to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Lawson’s technology platform--Lawson System Foundation 9--combines Lawson's newest technology with world-class middleware from IBM for a high-performance solution that delivers comprehensive security, scalability, and usability. It also preserves customers' choice of hardware platform while providing a foundation for next-generation Lawson applications designed for use within SOA environments.

Lawson is building its next-generation applications using its Landmark technology environment, which dramatically reduces the amount of source code and produces virtually error-free, consistent Java code. This Java-based code delivers interoperability that protects and extends Lawson customers’ existing IT investments while ensuring compatibility with future applications and technologies.

Lawson’s industry focus and flexible product design enables fast and easy deployment. The company’s expertise within its target markets allows its services teams to radically simplify the process of deploying Lawson applications. As a result, customers save time, effort, and expense in implementing, maintaining, and using Lawson applications. In addition, Lawson’s professional services organization provides industry-specific implementation advice focused on best practices and value delivery.

Lawson Human Capital Management provides organizations with the information they need to maximize workforce potential. By helping identify key talents, the suite helps ensure that the right people are in the right positions to maximize their contribution and potential.

Lawson Human Capital Management helps human resources (HR) contribute to organizational excellence with applications that support business operations. By automating administrative processes, it helps HR increase efficiency, allowing them to focus on more critical initiatives.

Lawson offers a stand-alone human capital management (HCM) suite or an integrated ERP system, so HR organizations can align people and processes, all with a low total cost of ownership.

For more information visit the company's web site

http://www.lawson.com/wcw.nsf/pub/About_index

or the product homepage

http://www.lawson.com/wcw.nsf/pub/hcm

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