LAWSON : Is there a Web Services API ? Have you used it ?

[mikereaves]

My client is in the Health Care industry and uses a product called Lawson (http://www.infor.com/product-summary/scm/scm-for-healthcare/) as an entry point for Human Resources.   My client would like to perform typical activities such as create accounts, profiles, etc. as well as create Purchase Requests by calling a web services API. Have you worked with such an API for Lawson ? Your comments / experience would be of great value to me. Thanks

[tinayeargain]

Hi Tony - have you started on this initiative yet? We have just started our migration from our old ITSM tool to ServiceNow, and have a request from our Purchasing department to have the hardware and software requests created in ServiceNow get passed to Lawson, where a purchase request would be created.

Thanks,

Tina

[Pravin17]

Hi Adam,

Do you find the direct REST api for lawson to pull the user & cost center information from lawson to servicenow? Could you please share some more information on this?

Regards,

Pravin

[mikereaves]

We looked, we heard about one, but never actually saw anyone with any real experience integrating Lawson.

We ended up using Export Sets and having Lawson FTP to the MID Server.

It was a very old school solution.

[mayank93]

Hi Adam

Any luck with finding the REST APIs for lawson?

[mikereaves]

The client's Lawson instance didn't support any form of web services.   We ended up using Export Sets.   They FTP into the mid server and pick up the files.   Export Sets are cool, but Web Services are by far the way to go.