ERP software productivity enhancement

Lawson Software has announced the general availability of Lawson Enterprise Search for the Lawson M3 product suite. This follows the April 2009 introduction of Lawson Enterprise Search for Lawson S3 customers.

Lawson Enterprise search is an intuitive new product to search both structured and unstructured data across the Lawson M3 system, Lawson Business Intelligence, the user’s desktop - and even their personal transaction history. It allows searching for data that is typically not searchable in standard database systems - even obscure information such as comments, notes and descriptions within documents.

With Lawson Enterprise Search users can retrieve relevant results quickly and then take action based on that information. For example, if a company needed to recall a specific product due to a food contamination crisis, it could use Lawson Enterprise Search to find and deactivate all items associated with a product in its inventory, in purchase orders and in requisitions.

Companies no longer need to comb through their enterprise software system line by line to discover and take action on specific changes or make a decision.

Organisations can quickly deploy and implement Lawson Enterprise Search without compromising their current Lawson system’s integrity. Tight integration with Lawson security helps ensure that users’ searches will return results only from those parts of the system they are allowed to access. Key Lawson Enterprise Search capabilities include support for wildcards, the ability to search keys, comments, descriptions and dates, save commonly used search queries and search from any transaction field to find related information.