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May 2009

The LawsonGuru Letter
Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community
In This Issue
CUE 09 Descends on San Diego
ProcessFlow Integrator Part 13: Combining Integration Nodes
PA113 - Retroactive History
Lawson Staffing Questions
Duplicate Vendor Tax ID SmartNotification
Worthwhile Reading
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"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur."
-- Doug Larson
CUE 09 Descends on San Diego
Lawson invited some software industry bloggers to attend the annual event.  Alas, I stayed home.
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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.
ProcessFlow Integrator Part 13: Combining Integration Nodes
The past several articles have examined some of ProcessFlow nodes that can be used for integration with Lawson and non-Lawson systems:
In this article, we will look at a couple of examples that combine these nodes to accomplish some frequently-requested tasks. 
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PA113 - Retroactive History
We are at Apps 8.1 and do not have a clear understanding of the PA113 and thus oops - have left it alone for years. Could someone possibly help me understand?  Read More...
Lawson Staffing Questions
We are looking to roll out an upgrade which includes GL, Procurement, RSS, A/P, MSCM with some Enterprise Reporting and a little ProcessFlow, in an LSF9 (Windows/SQL) environment plus H/R, Benefits, ESS, Talent Management, Payroll, and LBI.

What sort of I.T. resources are other companies finding they need to run a system like this?  Please include numbers and skill-sets.  Read More...
Duplicate Vendor Tax ID SmartNotification
I'm attempting to build a SN that will return vendor information (Vendor Number, Name, Tax_ID, etc) for vendors who have duplicate tax IDs in the APVENMAST table.   Read More...
Thanks for joining us this month. 
 
Sincerely,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Henley
Decision Analytics
Worthwhile Reading
Up and Away
Companies are feeling a little less trapped by spreadsheets these days.
Top 10 qualities of a great IT shop
Though no two IT shops conduct business are the same, some best practices have bubbled up.
Understanding Logging and Recovery in SQL Server
Some of the most misunderstood parts of SQL Server are its logging and recovery mechanisms. The fact that the transaction log exists and can cause problems if not managed correctly seems to confound many "involuntary DBAs."

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