Powering High-Performance Government

Investing Wisely
Lawson helps governments and educational institutions get the most from ERP.

When Richard and Bill Lawson founded Lawson Software in 1975, they set out to bring best practices and best business applications to clients who wanted to become high performance organizations without having to over-invest to achieve first-class operations. More than 30 years later, Lawson continues to live by that philosophy. The company was a pioneer of open architecture solutions, which allows software applications to run on most computing platforms and also allows users to upgrade all of their computing components without restrictions from the manufacturer. From the beginning, Lawson understood that the utilization of open systems technology could help to better address client needs at lower costs.

Today, Lawson is committed more strongly than ever to these principles, using open systems and powerful technology to create easy-to-use solutions for government and education organizations.

Government and education organizations face constantly evolving challenges. Service demands, regulatory responsibilities and budget pressures all are growing. Traditional methods of meeting these requirements are simply too costly and inefficient. Many organizations continue to operate on old mainframe systems and disparate layers of technology that result in organizations struggling to keep up with modern demands.

For many organizations, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems present an attractive option to address these demands. With government and education budgets constantly in flux, cost and effectiveness of ERP solutions become crucial considerations. ERP solutions for government and education organizations need to be flexible, cost-effective, and easy to implement and maintain over their complete life cycle.

Many ERP software packages consist of inflexible proprietary software that forces users to either completely change their business processes or perform expensive source code alterations that limit their ability to implement future upgrades or easily integrate with operational or regulatory systems and data. These challenges are magnified for public organizations because these decisions not only affect operations, they also impact constituents and their tax dollars.

Lawson solutions are designed to help provide clients with ease of use, open architecture and easy integration with other systems to provide clients with a lower total cost of ownership. Lawson also provides solutions that help build in flexible business process management and workflow tools so government agencies can tailor business processes and procedures to fit their needs, without performing complex coding changes.

Utilization of user-friendly, Web-based interfaces and self-service capabilities increase constituent satisfaction and help organizations save time and costs associated with retraining government work forces. There is no code to load on client machines, which helps greatly reduce technical complexity and maintenance costs while enhancing speed to capability and upgradability. And Lawson ERP solutions are highly scalable so the technology can grow to meet the needs of 24-hour, always-on public service.

Lawson ERP solutions deliver powerful tools that help address the challenges of 21st-century public service. From budgeting, financial management, human resources and procurement applications to performance management and services automation, Lawson helps position agencies to optimize their performance while making intelligent use of taxpayer funds.

Along with powerful technology, Lawson delivers services that help provide vital support to thriving government operations. From deployment expertise to reliable ongoing support, Lawson establishes a long-term commitment to its clients' success.

Lawson Is ERP
Lawson enterprise management systems transform government operations by automating, streamlining and improving business processes -- helping organizations improve service and lower costs. This software suite provides CFOs and department heads with insight into the status of their available funds and the effectiveness of program expenditures.

Using the Lawson Enterprise Financial Management Suite, decision-makers gain insight to help prioritize projects and spot cost-cutting opportunities. These tools give CFOs, department heads and other officials a comprehensive view of organizational performance that can be broken down by fund, function, activity,