Lawson Professional Services Introduces Managed Services and Lawson 9 Migration Programs; Professional Services Portfolio Strengthened With New Programs Designed to Help Customers Maximize the Return on Their Lawson Investment.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN) today announced two new professional services offerings to help customers streamline costs and improve service levels. Lawson Managed Services is being offered to provide an avenue for customers to turn over management of their Lawson software maintenance, customizations and upgrades to Lawson Professional Services. In addition, the Lawson 9 Migration Program is designed to make it easier for customers to move to the most current version of Lawson's applications.

Lawson Managed Services

Lawson Managed Services is being offered as an option for customers to enable them to redeploy IT resources to more strategic projects by letting Lawson Professional Services (LPS) manage their Lawson systems.

Lawson Managed Services is designed to help customers achieve their business, budget and timeline objectives at the highest possible value. Delivering the functional and technical benefits of upgrades and updates, the program is designed to help customers:

--Improve system productivity and uptime with an optimally functioning system, backed by their Lawson Service Level Agreement (SLA).

--Reduce support and maintenance costs to lower their total cost of ownership with best-practices implementation methodology and application expertise.

--Enhance budget predictability. Predictable charges simplify application support costs so customers can plan and forecast budgets with greater confidence.

The new Managed Services maintenance offering is based on a Global Delivery / SLA Model to ensure the most cost effective delivery of support, without sacrificing quality. The Global Delivery Model leverages trained, certified resources within Lawson Solution Centers around the world. In this way, Lawson and its customers can take advantage of global economics to best source the labor and talent to provide the quality service at the best price points possible. Lawson Managed Services allow the company to further extend its services capabilities while working to lower costs for customers.

Lawson 9 Migration Program

The Lawson 9 Migration Program is designed to make it easier for customers to move to the latest version of Lawson's applications. The program provides customers with reliable and cost-effective methodologies that deliver the outcomes customers need and can help deliver a faster return on their Lawson investment. Some of the components of the Lawson 9 Migration Program include:

--Business needs assessment

--Change management

--Business process and technology integration assistance

--Partial, phased or complete implementation roadmap, based on a customer's resources and business needs

The program will also include onsite and remote services to help implement and optimize the system. Lawson recently launched its Remote Services Lab, developed to help customers reduce the time and costs associated with the migration and allow customers to focus on other aspects of their business.

With a dedicated staff of experienced and seasoned Lawson professionals utilizing a combination of onsite and remote services, the Lawson 9 Migration Program enables rapid, high quality and cost effective migrations to Lawson System Foundation 9. In fact, we anticipate that customers can expect a 30-40 percent realized savings versus traditional migrations as a result of this new program.

"As a result of today's new offerings and other enhancements made over the last year, LPS is uniquely positioned today, more than ever, to deliver the outcomes and value customers expect when they choose Lawson," said Rob Jorgenson, senior vice president, services, Lawson Software. "These new offerings from LPS make complete sense -- after all, nobody knows Lawson better than Lawson."

Strengthened Lawson Professional Services

Lawson has significantly invested in its professional services capabilities since last year's CUE. The company continues to make significant training investments in its delivery professionals -- all of them are certified in at least one Lawson product suite. Lawson consultants use the world's largest knowledge base of Lawson best practices to benefit each customer project. In fact, the LPS Global Knowledge Base includes more than 2,000 unique Lawson knowledge objects for knowledge exchange and Lawson best practices for each LPS project.

Additionally, Lawson has deepened its industry expertise by adding more than 50 experienced consultants over the last year, including several to support the company's fastest growing practice area -- Enterprise Performance Management.

Finally, Lawson has strengthened its relationship with IBM to optimize their products on IBM WebSphere, Tivoli and DB2 technology, and The Hackett Group to bring best practices and benchmarking capabilities to customers.

Lawson provides the breadth and depth required to meet its customers' needs. LPS' goal is to work alongside customers throughout the entire services lifecycle, beginning with initial assessment of business needs through implementation and optimization of the system.

About Lawson Software

Lawson Software provides business application software and consulting services that put time on the side of services organizations in the healthcare, retail, government and education, banking and insurance and other markets. Lawson's software suites include enterprise performance management, distribution, financials, human resources, procurement, retail operations and service process optimization. With headquarters in St. Paul, Minn., Lawson has offices and affiliates serving North and South America, Europe, and Africa. Visit www.lawson.com for more information. Lawson Software and Lawson are registered trademarks of Lawson Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Forward-Looking Statements 

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