With the upgrade, Lawson Software seeks to eliminate performance bottlenecks it experienced with Fast Ethernet. After reviewing the products from Cabletron Systems, Cisco Systems, Fore Systems and 3Com Corp., Lawson settled on 3Com. Now, Lawson Software runs entirely on 3Com gear. SEA is a tool set of browser-based application interfaces that requires no user training and is deployable via the Web.
SEA is designed to make applications easier for employees to learn.
The company's fully integrated human resources, financial, procurement, supply chain, collaborative commerce and budgeting products enable customers, mostly Fortune 500 businesses, to gain better business performance and greater cost-effectiveness. Focused on the health-care, retail, public sector, financial and professional services markets, Lawson serves more than 2,800 clients and boasts a 30 percent to 40 percent annual growth rate. Fueled by 3Com systems, Lawson uses SEA internally for its own applications. At the St. Paul headquarters, the new Gigabit Ethernet LAN is accelerating every facet of the company's software development, from editing to testing. Lawson is also employing the network to strengthen its customer and vendor support.