City of Santa Ana Goes Live on Lawson Enterprise Solutions

California’s ninth-largest city will use Lawson applications to help simplify financial reporting and eliminate manual processes

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The City of Santa Ana recently completed the second phase of a city-wide deployment of an enterprise software system from Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN - News). This Lawson deployment, which is part of a multi-phase implementation, includes the Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management suites, as well as Lawson Business Intelligence, ProcessFlow Integrator and Lawson Security 9.0. Lawson Professional Services provided implementation services for the project.

Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange County in southern California. As the ninth- largest city in California, it has more than 355,000 residents, employs more than 2,000 people and operates with an annual general fund budget of approximately $216 million.

The Lawson applications have replaced the City of Santa Ana’s legacy business system, which required significant duplicate data entry and paper-based processes to complete many of the city's administrative activities. With the implementation of the new Lawson system, city administrators hope to see overall gains in efficiency by streamlining many key business processes.

The City of Santa Ana will use the Lawson applications to help simplify financial reporting, optimize procurement processes and integrate its administrative systems into an enterprise-wide system. The Lawson system will help the city:

•Create timely, accurate reports for city administrators by helping to automate manual processes such as those associated with purchasing, budgeting, and project transactions.
•More accurately track spending against budgets and automate purchase approval processes.
•Strengthen strategic decision making and help increase transparency through better reporting capabilities via Lawson Business Intelligence.
•Reduce duplicate data entry.
•Automate business processes using Lawson ProcessFlow Integrator.

“We face ever-increasing challenges to do more with fewer resources, which makes it even more critical that we look to technology solutions to help us operate more efficiently and effectively,” said Francisco Gutierrez, executive director of the Finance and Management Services Agency for the City of Santa Ana. “Our constitutents expect and deserve greater transparency, and the Lawson system gives us access to relevant and timely information, which helps us make better informed business decisions.”

About Lawson Software

Lawson Software provides software and service solutions to 4,500 customers in equipment service management and rental, fashion, food & beverage, healthcare, manufacturing & distribution, public sector (United States), service industries, and strategic human capital management across 40 countries. Lawson Software is a global provider of enterprise software, services and support to customers primarily in three sectors: services, trade and manufacturing/distribution. Lawson’s solutions include Enterprise Performance Management, Human Capital 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 at www.lawson.com. For Lawson’s listing on the First North exchange in Sweden, Remium AB is acting as the Certified Adviser.

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