South Carolina school district will use Lawson system to help improve

efficiency and reporting capabilities

ST. PAUL, Minn.–(EMWNews)–Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced the School District of

Greenville, South Carolina signed a multi-suite contract that includes

the Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management and Human Capital

Management suites as well as Lawson Business Intelligence. These

applications will help the school district more easily pull and analyze

financial information and decrease paper-based processes while creating

a centralized administrative system and structure for future technology

growth. The contract was signed during Lawson’s

fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended May 31, 2008.

Greenville County Schools is the largest public school system in South

Carolina and the 58th largest public school system in the nation. The

district educates more than 67,000 students in grades K-12 at more than

100 facilities in the county. Recently, eight Greenville County high

schools were named among Newsweek’s Best High

Schools for 2008.

The Lawson applications will replace the school district’s

current financial, procurement, human resources, budgeting and payroll

systems. Lawson Professional Services will work with district employees

to provide implementation services for the project rollout.

Specifically, the new system will help the district automate formerly

manual processes, such as those associated with budgeting, purchasing

and personnel transactions. For example, the Lawson Enterprise Financial

suite can help the district create accounting reports on a

project-by-project basis, helping administrators sort through data and

save time. This automation can help the district eliminate many of its

paper-based processes used in invoice tracking and payroll, therefore

helping to reduce cost.

Moreover, Lawson Business Intelligence will allow the organization to

drill deeper into financial and human resource data for further analysis

without the need to run multiple reports on multiple systems. The

district will also be able to create role-based dashboards for key

departments – from HR to accounting, which

gives employees relevant information at their fingertips to help them

make better informed decisions.

“School districts around the country are faced

with shrinking budgets and increasing demands from the communities they

serve,” said Alex Kaplan, services director,

Public Sector, Lawson. “Lawson helps school

systems optimize and account for scarce resources efficiently and at a

lower total cost of ownership.”

Lawson serves more than 140 public sector customers, including three of

the top seven digital state governments and four of the 25 largest

school districts in the United States. State governments, cities,

counties, school districts, publicly owned utilities/authorities and

special districts rely on Lawson solutions to help meet the needs of key

stakeholders – constituents, employees,

students, vendors and communities – while

helping to maximize limited budgets.

About Lawson Software

Lawson Software provides software and service solutions to 4,000

customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance and service sector

industries across 40 countries. Lawson’s

solutions include Enterprise Performance 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.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that contain

risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements contain

statements of intent, belief or current expectations of Lawson Software

and its management. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees

of future results and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause

actual results to differ materially from the potential results discussed

in the forward-looking statements. The company is not obligated to

update forward-looking statements based on circumstances or events that

occur in the future. Risks and uncertainties that may cause such

differences include but are not limited to: uncertainties in Lawson’s

ability to realize synergies and revenue opportunities anticipated from

the Intentia International acquisition; uncertainties in the software

industry; uncertainties as to when and whether the conditions for the

recognition of deferred revenue will be satisfied; increased

competition; global military conflicts; terrorist attacks; pandemics,

and any future events in response to these developments; changes in

conditions in the company’s targeted industries and other risk factors

listed in the company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed

with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lawson assumes no

obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this

press release.

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