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and Infor M3 / Infor Lawson
Gui Windels – BI Architect – Infor
guillaume.windels@infor.com
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2. Targeted Audience
• Customers who implemented LBI or with a sound knowledge of BI
combined with Infor M3 or Infor Lawson (ex-S3)
• Customers looking to streamline reports through the suite of reporting tools
• Customers building a reporting strategy in line with a recent or upcoming
Infor M3, Infor Lawson implementation
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3. Trends Across Lawson Reporting
• Externalize reporting tasks such as presentation and rendering outside of
the core ERP system
• Bring BI into the Infor M3, Infor Lawson workspace
• Improve user experience and overall flexibility
• Deliver results faster
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4. What Is New With Version 10
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5. What’s New
• Auditing capabilities with Reporting Services and Smart Notifications
• Find out who runs what
• Audit the performance of your reports
• Browser support
• LBI now supported on Firefox, on top of IE9
• ViewPoint – the new OLAP cube viewer
• Brings BI into Smart Office, coexists with a web version (dashboard-ready)
• Better User Experience where data consumers can build their own views
• Beautiful interactive views on top of existing content
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6. What ViewPoint Looks Like
ViewPoint lives into
Smart Office and
also exists as a
web-only version
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7. Still Supplementing BI
• Business Performance Warehouse (BPW) to build a state-of-the-art data
warehouse
• Liberate your Infor Lawson and Infor M3 data
• Aggregate Lawson/Infor and other data sources
• Separate your production environment from reporting
• Interoperable with 3rd-party tools
• Reporting Services
• Deploy Crystal Reports seamlessly and securely to business users
• Smart Notifications
• Proactively monitor Infor Lawson and Infor M3 for exceptions
• Framework Services
• Build dashboards and spaces for each business area
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8. Still Supplementing BI
• Analytics
• BI accelerator that builds a datawarehouse, and user views on top of Infor M3 data
• Rapid Time to Value
• Infor M3 Analytics
• Pre-defined views for Finance, Sales, Warehouse, Procurement
• Specific packages for the Equipment and Fashion industries
• Infor Lawson (ex-S3) Analytics
• Financial, Labor, Supply Chain analytics for Healthcare
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9. Smart Reports (LSR)
Streamline Backoffice Reports
(Infor M3 Only, BE > 13.1, LBI > 9.0.4)
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10. What Is Smart Reports
• Externalize M3 backoffice reports to LBI
• Improves usability and flexibility (export)
• Modify existing backoffice reports without code
• Point and click in Smart Office, or via a web interface
• Relies on M3 APIs
• 600+ reports currently supported through Smart Reports
• Edit and customize templates via Crystal Reports
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11. What Smart Reports Looks Like
Example of M3
backoffice report
APS113 being
integrated into LBI
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12. Ad Hoc Reporting
Create Operational Reports from the M3 database
(Infor M3 Only, BE > 14.1)
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13. What Is Ad Hoc Reporting
• Command the creation of a structured file (XML) from M3 BE
• XML file can then be processed universally by LBI or 3rd-party applications
• Design reports within Smart Offices with a WYSIWYG tool
• Join M3 tables according to your requirements
• No coding required, no application customization
• Data extract can be scheduled through M3’s job scheduler
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14. What Ad Hoc Reporting Looks Like
Report created with
Ad Hoc Reporting
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