what’s new with lawson reporting?
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What’s New With Reporting and Infor M3/Infor Lawson (respectively M3, S3) This set of slides is for customers looking to find out what is new across all reporting tools available for Infor M3 and Infor Lawson (respectively Lawson M3, and Lawson S3). These slides cover Lawson Business Ingelligence (LBI), Smart Reports (LSR) and Ad Hoc Reporting. Note that not all tools are available for Infor Lawson (Lawson S3).TRANSCRIPT
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What’s New With Reporting and Infor M3 / Infor LawsonGui Windels – BI Architect – Infor
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Targeted Audience• Customers who implemented LBI or with a sound knowledge of BI
combined with Infor M3 or Infor Lawson (ex-S3)• Customers looking to streamline reports through the suite of reporting tools• Customers building a reporting strategy in line with a recent or upcoming
Infor M3, Infor Lawson implementation
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Trends Across Lawson Reporting• Externalize reporting tasks such as presentation and rendering outside of
the core ERP system• Bring BI into the Infor M3, Infor Lawson workspace• Improve user experience and overall flexibility• Deliver results faster
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What Is New With Version 10
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What’s New• Auditing capabilities with Reporting Services and Smart Notifications
• Find out who runs what
• Audit the performance of your reports
• Browser support• LBI now supported on Firefox, on top of IE9
• ViewPoint – the new OLAP cube viewer• Brings BI into Smart Office, coexists with a web version (dashboard-ready)
• Better User Experience where data consumers can build their own views
• Beautiful interactive views on top of existing content
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ViewPoint lives into Smart Office and also exists as a web-only version
What ViewPoint Looks Like
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Still Supplementing BI• Business Performance Warehouse (BPW) to build a state-of-the-art data
warehouse• Liberate your Infor Lawson and Infor M3 data
• Aggregate Lawson/Infor and other data sources
• Separate your production environment from reporting
• Interoperable with 3rd-party tools
• Reporting Services• Deploy Crystal Reports seamlessly and securely to business users
• Smart Notifications • Proactively monitor Infor Lawson and Infor M3 for exceptions
• Framework Services • Build dashboards and spaces for each business area
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Still Supplementing BI• Analytics
• BI accelerator that builds a datawarehouse, and user views on top of Infor M3 data
• Rapid Time to Value
• Infor M3 Analytics • Pre-defined views for Finance, Sales, Warehouse, Procurement
• Specific packages for the Equipment and Fashion industries
• Infor Lawson (ex-S3) Analytics• Financial, Labor, Supply Chain analytics for Healthcare
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Smart Reports (LSR)Streamline Backoffice Reports(Infor M3 Only, BE > 13.1, LBI > 9.0.4)
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What Is Smart Reports• Externalize M3 backoffice reports to LBI
• Improves usability and flexibility (export)
• Modify existing backoffice reports without code• Point and click in Smart Office, or via a web interface
• Relies on M3 APIs
• 600+ reports currently supported through Smart Reports• Edit and customize templates via Crystal Reports
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Example of M3 backoffice report APS113 being integrated into LBI
What Smart Reports Looks Like
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Ad Hoc ReportingCreate Operational Reports from the M3 database(Infor M3 Only, BE > 14.1)
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What Is Ad Hoc Reporting• Command the creation of a structured file (XML) from M3 BE
• XML file can then be processed universally by LBI or 3rd-party applications
• Design reports within Smart Offices with a WYSIWYG tool• Join M3 tables according to your requirements
• No coding required, no application customization
• Data extract can be scheduled through M3’s job scheduler
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Report created with Ad Hoc Reporting
What Ad Hoc Reporting Looks Like
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