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Lawson Reporting Made Easy

Lawson Reporting Made Easy. Using the Dashboard Gear Reporting Toolkits. Dashboard Gear. Founded in 2007 Based in Minneapolis, MN Started selling our products in 2009 Financial Reporting Toolkit HR Reporting Toolkit Procurement/Supply Chain Toolkit

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Lawson Reporting Made Easy

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  1. Lawson Reporting Made Easy Using the Dashboard Gear Reporting Toolkits

  2. Dashboard Gear • Founded in 2007 • Based in Minneapolis, MN • Started selling our products in 2009 • Financial Reporting Toolkit • HR Reporting Toolkit • Procurement/Supply Chain Toolkit • Reporting and Data Warehousing Consulting Services • Lawson Product Partner As Of Jan. 2010

  3. A Few of our Customers

  4. Lawson Reporting • Why is it so difficult????

  5. Classic Data Storage Issue • ERP Data (Lawson) is designed to capture transactions and not pull data out.

  6. Historical Data Crosses Rows • For Example HRHISTORY (subset) • Must read multiple rows/records of data to get a value.

  7. How to solve the problem? • There are two primary ways to solve the issue.

  8. 1. Put Lipstick on the Pig A. Write complex reports on the tables that try and read the multiple rows of data. B. Use Add-ins and other tools that try and mask the issue, but can’t operate on the data efficiently, because it has to look at so much data to find the answer.

  9. 3 Layers of a BI Implementation DATA LAYER CONTENT CREATION LAYER DISTRIBUTION LAYER

  10. Dashboard Gear System Overview Reporting and Analytics Server Lawson Server Reporting Database Lawson Database OLAP Cube Relational Data Mart Database Views and Procedures

  11. What are the Reporting Toolkits? A Financial and Human Resources database application which uses your Lawson Data to build and maintain: • A Relational Reporting Database • Star Schema Datamart • Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP Cubes • Manage Common Views against Lawson • Ability to Create a Shared Library of KPI’s

  12. Why is it needed? • Lawson data is undocumented and complex • Many tables to join to get simple reports • At least a half dozen joins to get a basic report. • Organizational hierarchy is difficult • Chart hierarchy is difficult • Difficult to compare across years/periods

  13. Why Continued…… • Account balance data is difficult to obtain • Performance and security concerns of reporting off live production data

  14. Reporting Tools The choice of tools is yours. Reporting and Analysis on the data output have been written using: • Crystal Reports/Business Objects • Cognos • Microsoft Reporting Services/Performance Point • Lawson Business Intelligence Tools (LBI) • MS Excel / Office • Hyperion

  15. Demo

  16. Sample of Measures: • Actual Period Amounts/Units • Budget Period Amounts/Units • Prior Period Amounts/Units • Period End Balances • YTD and Annual Balances • Variances between Actual Budget and Prior Period • Turnover/Headcount • Payroll Amounts/Hours

  17. Typical Implementation Available for Report Writing in 1 week

  18. Q & A Rich Bendickson Rich.Bendickson@DashboardGear.com 612.619.8753

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