Infor Requiring Some Lawson users to Do a licensing Audit

hello,

I have been doing some reading and research and have discovered some interesting information.  As many of you know, with the purchase of Lawson by Infor, there have been and will continue to be some changes.

These changes will be both positive and negative.  The positive changes will be that Infor wants to incorporate more functionality and flexibility  into the Lawson ERP system.  On the other hand, they are also doing some things which can be annoying, to the say the least, to the application users.

it seems that Infor wants to have all existing Lawson users do a new licensing audit.  They provide a script to run and then ask you to let them have more access.  There are some over at the lawsonguru who are complaining that these scripts themselves are not functioning properly.

Nothing worse than running a program to help your program that doesn't work right.  This only goes to show how complex the enterprise resource planning system is.  While these types of things can be frustrating, they are to be expected.  The Lawson system is highly complex and needs constant administration.  The trouble is this is often overwhelming for the users.

I try to be cautious about this, but this circumstance does sort of shine a light on the need for consultants, doesn't it?  It's nice when you've got someone around who can not only guide you through these situations but can even offers alternatives to scripts that don't work, license issues and the like.

Hang in there, everyone, although this change from Lawson to Infor Lawson is going to have its share of issues, we can get through it.  There are many resources available to us all, be it in-house System Administrators, Third party consultants such as my own company, online resources like Lawson forums and websites, and who knows what else will be coming soon.  But for those of you who are users of the systems, just remember there is always a solutions to your problems.