Lawson Completes Global Roll-out of Lawson Total Care

Lawson Total Care was introduced in August 2006 and has been well received by Lawson customers. Banner Health is one of more than 20 Total Care Silver customers already seeing the value of the enhanced Total Care offering. "Total Care was attractive to us because it allowed us to choose the support option that best fit our specific needs," said Kathy Schultz, system director, financial services, Banner Health. "We recently upgraded to Total Care Silver and we're very pleased with the level of responsiveness and customer support that we've received. It has helped us strengthen and deepen our partnership with Lawson."

Lawson Total Care currently gives customers three options for maintaining their Lawson applications - Total Care Bronze, Total Care Silver and Total Care Gold.

• Total Care Bronze: Base level of maintenance including:
• Upgrades, updates, corrections
• Self-service tools, knowledge base
• Access to Lawson support staff
• Total Care Silver: Includes all Total Care Bronze, plus enhanced support, including:
• Priority queuing
• Non-warranty support ("how-to questions")
• Annual system performance assessment
• Status report and usage statistics
• Total Care Gold: Highest level of support coupled with Lawson application management services, providing:
• Lawson product, database and security administration
• Support and maintenance of customer modifications
• Installation of corrections and fix packs

Lawson Total Care is designed to take the burden off customers' internal teams for tasks such as corrections and fix packs, custom modifications, upgrades, administration of software installations, performance tuning, database administration and system maintenance. The program was designed over time based on customer requests for support and maintenance options from Lawson that allow them to chose what's right for their budget and their in-house expertise.

"Lawson Total Care reduces the cost and complexity of maintaining enterprise applications," said Henning Schulze-Lauen, vice president, Support & Delivery, Lawson Software. "Nobody knows the Lawson system better than we do, and we're making it easier for customers to tap that experience. Helping our customers make the best use of their software is a great way of ensuring customer satisfaction and business success."

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; global military conflicts; terrorist attacks; pandemics, and any future events in response to these developments; changes in conditions in the company's targeted industries; increased competition and other risk factors listed in the company's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q 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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U.S. Media

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Europe Media

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