Lawson Announces Partnership with SEEBURGER AG
HILDEN, Germany, November 7, 2007– Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced a new partnership with SEEBURGER AG, a leading provider of business integration solutions. Lawson chose SEEBURGER as a business partner to support customers with their Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implementations, to help optimize the exchange of data between Lawson applications and other systems. Lawson and SEEBURGER have collaborated in the past, working on projects for existing customers such as fashion industry company Schiesser.
Prior to the SEEBURGER partnership, Axway, an Enterprise Application integration (EAI) solution provider, was the only Lawson EDI partner. With SEEBURGER, Lawson customers now have more choice of EDI products. The primary advantage of EDI is high speed data communication along with the elimination of human interaction, helping to significantly reduce the risk of errors. As an example, reductions in errors during the transmission of orders between suppliers and customers can result in much more accurate order fulfillment. Lawson customers using Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System applications benefit through the connectivity between SEEBURGER’s solutions and the Lawson M3 applications.
“Since this EDI solution was first implemented in June 2004, the Lawson and SEEBURGER solution has helped us achieve great results such as the optimization of our daily electronic data management, said Dr. David Frink, CIO, Schiesser Group. “The Lawson and SEEBURGER EDI combination proved to be ideal for our needs.
The global partnership offers a strong EDI solution to the industries that Lawson serves, such as fashion manufacturing and others that are already the largest EDI users today.
About Lawson Software
Lawson Software provides software and service solutions to 4,000 customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance and service sector industries across 40 countries. Lawson’s solutions include Enterprise Performance Management, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Asset Management and industry-tailored applications. Lawson solutions assist customers in simplifying their businesses or organizations by helping them streamline processes, reduce costs and enhance business or operational performance. Lawson is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., and has offices around the world. Visit Lawson online atwww.lawson.com.
About SEEBURGER
SEEBURGER is a leading provider of global business integration solutions designed to optimize transactions throughout the extended enterprise by automating trading relationships with all partners regardless of their size and technical resources. Launched in 1986 to provide integration solutions to the automotive industry in Germany, the company today is ranked among the top business-to-business gateway providers by top industry analysts, and serves more than 7,000 customers in more than 50 countries and more than 15 industries through its flagship B2B Gateway and related products and services. SEEBURGER has offices worldwide.
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