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Cast Iron for Lawson Software

Cast Iron Systems created the Integration Appliance for Lawson M3/S3 users. Many product and services companies including Open Text, Intuitive Surgical, and Juniper Networks are using the Cast Iron Integration Appliance™ to deliver application data migration and integration projects in just days while cutting their costs by 80%.

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Connect Applications Easily

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance is revolutionizing application data migration and integration for companies everywhere. Many Lawson implementations involve the need to rapidly integrate business processes, assets, financial records, compliance information, and supply chain data with a variety of other internal and with external partners. The Cast Iron Integration Appliance is a purpose-built appliance that delivers everything needed to solve these data migration and integration problems quickly using a “configuration, not coding” approach without complex middleware or custom code.

Why Choose the Cast Iron Integration Appliance for Lawson Software Integration?

Cast Iron Integration Appliances for Lawson enable IT departments to be nimble and responsive to the needs of the business.

Fastest Time to Market:

Rapid Integration
  • Integrate with Lawson M3 and S3 systems in days
  • No software to install. Up-and-running in minutes!
  • Graphical configuration, not coding
  • Rack-mountable, production-ready
  • On demand library of Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios

Lowest Costs:

Lowest cost
  • No software to license or deploy
  • Low monthly subscription pricing
  • Up to 80% lower operating costs vs. traditional software-based alternatives
  • Nothing else to buy

Simplest Monitoring and Management:

Simplest monitoring and management
  • Complete visibility into transactions
  • Proactive alerting of data and connectivity errors
  • Monitor from anywhere, anytime
  • Remote setup, upgrades and monitoring

Most Rapid, Efficient Development:

Most rapid, efficient development
  • 100% standards-based; no reliance on niche skills
  • Simple drag-and-drop connectivity to Lawson M3 and S3 Enterprise Management Systems
  • Connectivity to Lawson using the Application Gateway Service (AGS), ODBC or flat-files
  • Pre-built connectors to CRM, flat-files, Web Services, all major databases, customer support systems, messaging systems, and other ERP systems
  • Unmatched flexibility — can be deployed on-premise or hosted in the Cloud

What Problems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Solve?

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance connects various internal and external applications to Lawson. The appliances complement existing application and integration components, including those provided by Lawson. Companies in many sectors — including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, energy, transportation, and logistics — rely on the Integration Appliance to solve the following problems:

Synchronize data in real time between Oracle Apps and other systems:

  • Migrating data from other applications to your Lawson M3 and S3
  • HR data synchronization with other applications
  • Customer, order and support information with CRM systems like Siebel and salesforce.com
  • Supply chain synched with customer-facing applications
  • Lean Manufacturing process sync with other MRP, forecasting and inventory control applications
  • Order to Cash integration between CRM, ERP, warehousing and financial systems
  • Payroll upload from third-party providers
  • Retail store integration
  • Sales order, shipment and invoice information exchange with customers
  • PO, ASN, and shipping information with suppliers
  • Periodic data extracts to external reporting systems and data warehouses
  • Pricing, catalog and inventory sync with Web-based portals
  • Shipment information and waybill tracking with logistics and distribution systems

Connect Lawson Software with:

  • Connectivity to Lawson applications using AGS (XML/HTTP), database (ODBC), and flat-files (batch file upload)
  • Other ERP including SAP, Oracle/JD Edwards/PeopleSoft, BAAN, QAD
  • CRM including Oracle/Siebel, salesforce.com and RightNow
  • Customer support systems like Clarify, Remedy, Kana
  • All major databases (including IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Progress, Informix)
  • Flat-file transfers (via FTP, HTTP(S), and e-mail)
  • XML & Web Services
  • SaaS application including Eloqua, Right90, Big Machines, Xactly, and White Springs
  • Industry standards like EDI, HL-7, RosettaNet, etc.
  • Custom home-grown applications
  • All major EAI platforms
  • And many more...
  • Accelerate Your Lawson Integration Projects

    The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for Lawson Software is self-contained and provides everything needed to migrate data and integrate Lawson M3/S3 with other applications and endpoints. The Cast Iron solution provides the following key features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with Lawson M3/S3:

    Cast Iron Capabilities

    Data Quality and Migration:

    • Data Profiling: Assess the quality of your data before commencing data migrations — e.g. identify the unique state and country codes present in your address data
    • Intelligent Data Cleansing:
      • Duplicate Removal (de-duplication): Combine data from various different data sources and remove duplicate values — e.g. remove the same lead scanned multiple times
      • Fuzzy Lookup: Configure sophisticated rules to highlight errors and fix them — e.g. common misspellings, abbreviations, etc.
    • Data Enrichment: Perform lookups with third-party providers to enrich your data — e.g. DUNS number from Dun & Bradstreet services, etc.

    Integration and Extraction

    The Cast Iron Integration Appliance simplifies Lawson Software integration in just four easy steps:

    1. Connectivity 2. Transformation 3. Workflow 4. Management

    The Integration Appliance contains pre-built connectivity to a wide variety of enterprise applications, databases, flat-files, and on-demand applications. Using a "configuration, not coding" approach for connecting applications not only enables rapid implementations, but also eliminates the need to touch the endpoints. The appliance provides a graphical UI to transform data between source and target applications, and provides automatic completeness checks. A workflow process can be defined using drag-and-drop logical functions. And, a single web-based console provides complete visibility to data flowing through the appliance and enables complete management of the integrations.

    Components

    The Cast Iron Integration Appliance provides three components to configure, deploy and manage your application integration projects.

    Cast Iron Studio™

    Cast Iron Studio™ Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the appliance with a single click.

    Run-time Appliance

    Cast Iron Integration Appiance™ Combining ease-of-use with robust functionality, the purpose-built Run-time Appliance brings high performance and reliability to your integration solution. With easy scalability and complete security, the appliance is self-contained and has everything needed to complete your integrations.

    Web Management Console

    Cast Iron Web Management Console™ (WMC) The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The Web Management Console also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.

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    Cast Iron Appliances

    • iA2000

      The iA2000 is the entry-level integration appliance from Cast Iron. It allows customers to get their first integration project between Lawson and any one named application up and quickly and cost effectively. This is an attractive alternative for custom code and good fit for simpler projects.

    • iA2500

      Entry-level appliance provides integration between Lawson and one other named application. Allows customers to consider an integration solution for simpler integration projects, and is an attractive alternative to custom code.

    • iA4000

      Flagship solution solves integration problems between multiple applications including Lawson Software. Useful for companies that seek a standard solution for their application integration needs and find software-based integration solutions too complex.

    • iA4000HA

      High Availability solution for mission-critical applications. Comprised of a pair of iA4000 appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability. Useful for companies that need a hot standby option in addition to high-availability requirements.