City of Providence Awards Major Contract to Lawson; Lawson's Web-enabled Solutions Help State Capital be ``Model, Responsive City''.Business Editors ST. PAUL St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2002 Lawson Software (Lawson Software, St. Paul, MN, www.lawson.com) A software company that specializes in ERP for vertical markets including health care, retail, public sector, professional and financial services. (Nasdaq:LWSN) today announced it has signed a major software contract with the City of Providence, Rhode Island  “Providence” redirects here. For other uses, see Providence (disambiguation). Providence is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. . The city licensed Lawson Financials, Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and Procurement, as well as Enterprise Performance Management for analytics. Systems integrator Eisner Technology Solutions will implement the solutions. The City of Providence will replace a 16-year-old system that lacked Web capabilities. By purchasing all core suites from Lawson's public sector offering, the city will benefit from full integration of its mission-critical enterprise applications. The city cited Lawson's focus on the public sector and several years of experience delivering Web-enabled software, providing the best overall solution for its investment dollars. "Lawson Software will help us be a model, responsive capital city," said Alex Prignano, director of finance for the City of Providence. "Having a smooth-running, efficient government IT system is all about having each set of applications linked together. For example, if someone wants a building permit and owes back taxes, we'll always know it. Nothing falls through the cracks." Lawson is recognized as one of the public sector's preferred providers of mission-critical applications. Among Lawson's public sector customers are three of the 20 largest school districts and organizations in five of the 20 largest states. Lawson's public sector applications are designed to help organizations maximize budgets, work efficiently and serve stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. , including students, constituents, members, employees, vendors and the community. Lawson's applications are easy to implement, use and adapt so organizations can shift from focusing on data collection to data analysis and use. "We've developed a set of public sector solutions that help put people first," said Andrew Urban, Lawson's public sector vertical market director. "Our customers expect new services, smart budget management and automation wherever possible. By moving to Lawson's Web-based solutions, Providence stays on the national forefront in meeting and exceeding those expectations." About Lawson Software Lawson Software provides mission-critical enterprise software solutions that help service organizations in the healthcare, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , retail, public sector and other strategic markets achieve competitive advantage. Lawson's proven Internet solutions deliver unprecedented visibility to drive operational excellence in customer relationship management, professional services automation See PSA. , human resources, financials, procurement, distribution and enterprise performance management. Headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., Lawson has offices or affiliates serving North and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Additional information about Lawson Software is available at www.lawson.com. |
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