Lawson Software Introduces the Latest Version of Lawson Smart Office

Innovative software user experience increases employee productivity through improved MicrosoftOffice integration and new features

April 20, 2009 - Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced thegeneral availability of a new version of Lawson Smart Office. Lawson Smart Office is aninnovative enterprise software user experience designed to help improve employee productivityby connecting business intelligence, applications, workflow, collaboration and Microsoft Officetools. The launch of the new version of Lawson Smart Office is a centerpiece of the 2009 LawsonConference and User Exchange (CUE), which kicked off today in San Diego. More than 80customers have licensed Lawson Smart Office since the first version was released during the2008 Lawson CUE.

Lawson Smart Office 9.0.3 (view product overview and demonstration) provides a morevisual user experience with improved intuitive and graphical ways to view data to help supportbetter decision-making. It provides users new levels of productivity with the flexibility to buildenterprise mashups that integrate with external applications such as Google maps and otherweb-based business tools. This updated version also enables greater personalization of a user’sdesktop specific to their daily tasks, as well as tighter Microsoft Office integration and improvedease of use. Building on the original version, Lawson Smart Office now offers more powerfulediting features for Microsoft Excel and Lawson enterprise applications, which helps fostersimpler use while improving the accuracy and timeliness of data.

A video featuring a Lawson Smart Office customer is available within the Lawson VirtualCUE portal for media and industry analysts at www.lawson.com/virtualCUE. The video is foundwithin the “Product News” section of the website.

Lawson Smart Office lets employees set up their computer desktop to access the specificinformation and applications they need, when they need it. Users can access all of theirapplications from the Lawson Smart Office Desktop, which includes pre-loaded and employeebuiltwidgets to display the latest information based on data from the Web, Lawson enterpriseapplications and Microsoft Office. For example, project managers may choose to build a widgetthat constantly displays current spend versus available budget to better monitor costs on a realtimebasis. They can also access Microsoft Office applications directly from Lawson Smart Officeto work in Microsoft Outlook or Excel and continue to monitor a budget widget without needing toreturn to the Microsoft Windows desktop.

Lawson Smart Office is an easy-to-use, user-driven application. Employees do not needto contact their company¡¯s information technology staff to help customize the application ¨C itprovides the user a familiar user interface that integrates with the tools employees use everyday.This employee empowerment helps promote greater productivity, limits training costs andreduces a company¡¯s total cost of ownership (TCO).

Additional new features of Lawson Smart Office include:
• An InfoBrowser widget that clearly displays problems and exceptions
• The ability to work offline in Excel
• Simple shortcuts to important information in Microsoft Outlook.

“Lawson Smart Office 9.0.3 is another example of how we continue to make enterpriseapplications simpler and smarter through innovation,” said Dean Hager, senior vice president ofproduct management for Lawson. “In the current economy, the nature of work has shifted andpeople are being asked to do more. Almost everyone needs to be able to get information fromenterprise applications – not just the power users. Lawson Smart Office makes it easier forpeople to find the data they need to do their jobs.”