1. Centura Health Lawson 8 Upgrade
Upgrading from
7.2.2 to 8.x

2. Our Scope
IN SCOPE:
To upgrade the Lawson Applications to the latest version available from Lawson by using Lawson’s upgrade programs for upgrading from version 7.2 – 8.x.
Review of all modified and custom Lawson programs to determine their future need and re-implement if necessary.
Attribute Matrix will be implemented.
We will migrate access to the Lawson 8.x applications from the desktop to web browser access for all employees
OUT OF SCOPE:
Lawson 8.0.x Environment.
7.2 – 8.x Must perform the cyclical first since we are on 7.2.2
Centura has approximately 300 mods
Attribute Matrix benefits Centura due to the addition of account attributes

3. Project Team 3 Core Teams Materiels Management/Matching/AP
Financials (GL, AM, CB)
HR/PR

4. Centura Health Lawson 8.x Upgrade Project Structure

5. Project Phases Planning Design Development Deployment
These phases are a combination of what Lawson recommends and the Microsoft methodology.

6. Planning Phase Kick-off Meeting with Teams
Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Differences Training
Technical Upgrade Training
Hardware Requirements
Differences Training was conducted in Lawson’s Training Data.

7. Design Phase Application Exploration (by Core Team)
Conference Room Pilot Preparation
1st Pass of Upgrade to be used in CRP
Conference Room Pilot
Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Application Exploration was also conducted in Lawson’s Training Data, but would have been much more effective with Centura’s data.
Programming has begun at this point…for CRP programs and then for others.
Conference Room Pilot – 1 week per Core Team. Scheduling around getting everything into GL for close.
CRP will not contain any testing of external interfaces only those internal to Lawson.

8. Development Phase 2nd Pass of Upgrade and System Testing
3rd Pass of Upgrade and System Testing
Create Cutover Plan
End User Training Plan Developed
Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Second Pass Testing will include all interfaces external to Lawson.
All programming will need to be completed prior to our Third Pass.
End User Training Plan
Functionality between 7.2 & 8.x
Navigation in browser

9. Deployment Phase Readiness Assessment End User Training
Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Final Pass into Production

10. Topics for Discussion Third Party Reporting Report Smith & Access
Browser Access (NED vs. XML)
Time frame for Cutover
Hardware Considerations
Functionality Differences
Third Party Reporting
Separate Core Team (members from all 3 core teams)
Test daily/monthly/yearly production Report Smith and Access reports
Repairing broken reports
Test Lab
Browser Access (Ned vs. XML)
Hardware Considerations
Disk Sizer
Mark Deutsh
IBM Review
Can Oracle make the upgrade more efficient timewise?
New machine scheduled for summer.
Functionality Differences
HR/PR – Not much – Exchange – CAN Currency is the big one – doesn’t affect us
MM/AP – Matching re-write
FIN – (AM) Balances stored by periods, Reinstate Disposals, Mass Adjustment
(GL) Templates for subaccounts and Aus. Provides efficient way to add Aus and sub accts to another company. – this really doesn’t help us…but is a nice feature
Ability to drill from AU to only those accounts that are active for that AU.

11. Tables Changes: Size % increase: 722 724 Tables 1.014 1.057
Indexes
722 Tables: Indexes: 3175
724 Tables: Indexes: 3299
802 Tables: Indexes: 4670
MSP 2 Added 3 Tables and changed 3.
MSP 3 Added 2 Tables and changed 1.

12. LID: 722

13. LID: 724

14. LID: 802

15. NED: 802

16. XML: 802

17. XML: 802 Menu