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October 2026

October 2026

Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community

Welcome to the latest issue of The LawsonGuru Letter, a free newsletter providing provocative commentary on issues important to the Lawson Software community. The LawsonGuru Letter is published by--and is solely the opinion of--John Henley of Decision Analytics.

Quote of the Issue

“At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags. Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins."

-- John Updike

Trending Topics

ION vs IPA

We had a person new to Lawson and Infor go to Infor CloudSuite Administration training. That person came back with ION is replacing IPA. Is that true?

ION - Looking for Examples

Does anyone know of any examples of real-world usage diagrams on the usage of ION? For example, anything that would illustrate/discuss on how a site used ION (marketed as a data bus) to move data from on oracle application (example: Kronos), to any other 3rd party application.

Infor OS/Cloudsuite SCIM groups

We are in the process of moving to the Cloudsuite and wanting to using auto provisioning of users and security. We seem to have the auto provisioning of the accounts working but can't seem to get SCIM groups to get into Infor OS. We wanted to use SCIM Groups to then provision users' security roles when they apply from our Access Management system through SCIM. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions on doing this?

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6 ERP trends for 2026 and beyond: CIOs rethink core systems

Facing what industry observers call an upgrade ‘supercyle,’ IT leaders are considering options in a market disrupted by AI, end-of-life deadlines, modernization decisions, and modular upstarts.

CIO, September 29, 2026

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Sincerely,

?John Henley

Decision Analytics

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