Getting more enterprise value out of your

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Getting more enterprise value out of your

Lawson data

Roadmap for

LBI

Infor

BI for Lawson

is NOT going

away

The Infor Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) product's name changed in 2015 when Infor replaced its

ViewPoint

component with the Infor Business Intelligence Application Studio component. Existing Infor Lawson Business Intelligence customers may choose to use the Application Studio component and are entitled to no charge Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson licensing. To signal this change to Infor Lawson customers, the "Infor Lawson Business Intelligence" product's name was changed to "Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson

."

The Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson product still uses Crystal Reports as its reporting engine, still uses the Infor Lawson Framework Services platform, and operates a customer's existing Infor Lawson Business Intelligence reports. In short, the product's name changed and a component was added but the product's functionality did not change.

Simplify IT

Since 2003

What’s New

2016

25

Consultants

142

Clients

Managed Services

13

10x Upgrades

11

10x

The leader in Lawson Managed Services

Service Offerings

Implementation Consulting

Upgrades

Custom Development

Security Implementations

ReportingInterfaces (IPA)Managed SupportManaging 13 Lawson customersAct as your own in-house IT StaffFrom basic support to full ownership

ProductsSecurity Reporting (LSF_IQ)Performance MeasurementData Cleanup

BI and Reporting Options

LBI – Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson

Excel Add-ins

Crystal Reports (Standalone)

Using LBI as the containerUsing Infor’s own Crystal Reports ServerCustom built reports using direct queries against Infor DBSSRSPublished to SSRS ServerCustom built reports using direct queries against Infor DB

TableauVisual and interactive dataInstant deployment and easy sharing

ADDINS Why

Very simple to use

Quick data dumps

Quick mass updatesIntuitive for Lawson power users

ADDINS What

Crystal Why

Form building is flexible

Sectioning/grouping is fairly

simpleGreat for creating form documents such as letters and invoices

Good for data sources other than SQL ServerADO.NET datasetOLEDB data sourceMicrosoft Access databaseMicrosoft Excel spreadsheetCrystal Data ObjectsWorks best for organization with strong SQL talent

Choice of Business Intelligence platformsInfor BI for LawsonSAP Business ObjectsCrystal Reports BIStandalone

Crystal How

Deploy to web-based business intelligence tool

Run standalone on user’s desktop

Use scheduler to distributeEmail

FTPShared driveCreate dashboardsSome drill-down functionality

Crystal What

SSRS Why

Versatile & flexible

Works best for organization with strong SQL talent

Standard Microsoft PlatformBrowser-based interface

Fully integrated with SharePointIntegrated SecurityMobile Support

SSRS How

Deploy to your SSRS web instance

Use scheduler to distribute

EmailFTP

Shared driveCreate dashboardsIntegrate with SharePointSome drill-down functionality

SSRS What

Tableau

Why Tableau?

Adoption

Used by over 19,000 organizations worldwide

Placed in the “Leader Quadrant” of Gartner’s magic quadrant for BI for the last 4 years running

Many existing Lawson customers have used Tableau successfully…http://investors.tableau.com/investor-news/investor-news-details/2016/Gartner-Positions-Tableau-as-a-Leader-in-Magic-Quadrant-for-BI-and-Analytics-Platforms/default.aspx

Show and Tell

Simple

to embed in other applications

Multiple feature-rich APIs are available to make security, administration and development effortless

On-Premise Server implementation takes hours, not days, and implementing the cloud version (Tableau Online) takes

minutesGartner Report links:http://investors.tableau.com/investor-news/investor-news-details/2016/Gartner-Positions-Tableau-as-a-Leader-in-Magic-Quadrant-for-BI-and-Analytics-Platforms/default.aspxhttps://

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