In this webinar we discuss some of the reporting and BI options available to use with your Lawson data. The main options covered are: Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson (aka LBI) Microsoft Addins Crystal Reports SSRS Tableau Below you’ll find the video recording of the actual webinar along with a powerpoint deck which has been updated to include the Gartner report links mentioned on this webinar. You can also see several of the interactive examples we used on the webinar by going to this link on our page: http://www.nogalis.com/services/lawson-reporting-with-tableau/ Link to Webinar Video: http://www.nogalis.com/2016/08/18/getting-the-most-out-of-your-lawson-data/ Direct Link to website: http://www.nogalis.com

1. Getting more enterprise
value out of your Lawson
data

2. 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.

3. What’s New 2016
25
Consultants
142
Clients Managed Services
13
10x Upgrades
11
10x

4. The leader in
Lawson Managed
Services

5. Service Offerings
• Implementation Consulting
o Upgrades
o Custom Development
o Security Implementations
o Reporting
o Interfaces (IPA)
• Managed Support
o Managing 13 Lawson customers
o Act as your own in-house IT Staff
o From basic support to full ownership
• Products
o Security Reporting (LSF_IQ)
o Performance Measurement
o Data Cleanup

6. BI and Reporting Options
• LBI – Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson
• Excel Add-ins
• Crystal Reports (Standalone)
o Using LBI as the container
o Using Infor’s own Crystal Reports Server
o Custom built reports using direct queries against Infor DB
• SSRS
o Published to SSRS Server
o Custom built reports using direct queries against Infor DB
• Tableau
o Visual and interactive data
o Instant deployment and easy sharing

7. ADDINS Why
• Very simple to use
• Quick data dumps
• Quick mass updates
• Intuitive for Lawson power users

8. ADDINS What

9. Crystal Why
• Form building is flexible
o Sectioning/grouping is fairly simple
o Great for creating form documents such as letters and invoices
• Good for data sources other than SQL Server
o ADO.NET dataset
o OLEDB data source
o Microsoft Access database
o Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
o Crystal Data Objects
• Works best for organization with strong SQL talent
• Choice of Business Intelligence platforms
o Infor BI for Lawson
o SAP Business Objects
o Crystal Reports BI
o Standalone

10. Crystal How
• Deploy to web-based business intelligence tool
• Run standalone on user’s desktop
• Use scheduler to distribute
o Email
o FTP
o Shared drive
• Create dashboards
• Some drill-down functionality

11. Crystal What

12. SSRS Why
• Versatile & flexible
• Works best for organization with strong SQL talent
• Standard Microsoft Platform
• Browser-based interface
• Fully integrated with SharePoint
• Integrated Security
• Mobile Support

13. SSRS How
• Deploy to your SSRS web instance
• Use scheduler to distribute
o Email
o FTP
o Shared drive
• Create dashboards
o Integrate with SharePoint
• Some drill-down functionality

14. SSRS What

15. Tableau

16. Why Tableau?
Adoption
o Used by over 19,000
organizations
worldwide
o Placed in the “Leader
Quadrant” of Gartner’s
magic quadrant for BI
for the last 4 years
running
o 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

17. Show and Tell

18. o Simple to embed in other applications
o Multiple feature-rich APIs are available to make
security, administration and development effortless
o On-Premise Server implementation takes hours, not
days, and implementing the cloud version (Tableau
Online) takes minutes
o Gartner 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.aspx
• https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-312NMXM&ct=160315&st=sb
Other benfits

19. Free Education
www.nogalis.com/education

20. @nogalisinc