Getting more enterprise value out of your Lawson data

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.

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

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

ADDINS What

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

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

Crystal What

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

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

SSRS What

Tableau

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

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Other benfits Simple to embed in other applications Multiple feature-rich APIs are available to make security, administration and development effortless On-Premise Server implementation takes hours, not days, and implementing the cloud version (Tableau Online) takes minutes 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

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