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September 2026

September 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

"If people stop going to the circus, the clowns go home."

-- Seth Godin

Trending Topics

On-demand Payroll Checks

To be in compliance with a union contract, Payroll must issue payments to correct payroll errors in 24 hours. The Payroll processing team has advised this is not always possible to issue checks with same day or next day check date once a regular biweekly or supplemental off week cycle is in process. I would appreciate feedback from an experienced Lawson user to describe available options before looking into another solution such as paycards. Read More

Lawson Portal patches for Chrome XSLT Deprecation

We are preparing for Chrome's upcoming XSLT deprecation and are planning to deploy the Infor patches. These patches are intended to address Chrome's removal of client-side XSLT. Before we move forward in production, we'€™re trying to understand whether other organizations have experienced functional changes, unexpected behavior, or breakages... Read More

Combined Procurement Groups, Item Groups and Vendor Groups

Is it recommended to use One Procurement Group, Item Group and Vendor Group for 3 Company setup in Lawson S3? What are the pros and cons for this setup? Thanks!

Worthwhile Reading

What the CIO role will look like in 2029

CIO Hall of Fame inductees shed light on what it will take to succeed as an IT leader as AI reshapes the relationship between business and technology in the years ahead.

CIO, August 24, 2026

How CISOs can rise to the business resilience challenge

As resilience overtakes prevention as the top concern for security leaders and their organizations, CISOs who have made the strategic shift explain what it takes to step up to the task.

CSO, July 27, 2026

10 cool things Copilot can do in PowerPoint

Turn a Word doc into a slide deck, pull out key data points, spin up speaker notes... these are just some of the nifty tricks Copilot can pull off in PowerPoint.

Computerworld, July 22, 2026

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John Henley

Decision Analytics

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