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AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A SOLE SOURCE AGREEMENT AND ORDER FORM WITH INFOR FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF UPGRADE LICENSES FOR MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE LAWSON SYSTEM AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT OR AGREEMENTS WITH INFOR FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE SAME IN THE AMOUNT OF $26,272.00. (F&BC 8-29-16)
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Issue/Request:
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A SOLE SOURCE AGREEMENT AND ORDER FORM WITH INFOR FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF UPGRADE LICENSES FOR MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE LAWSON SYSTEM AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT OR AGREEMENTS WITH INFOR FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE SAME IN THE AMOUNT OF $26,272.00.
Key Issues:
As part of the Lawson v10 upgrade planned for spring 2017, the City is required to purchase upgrade licenses for the Micro Focus product used within the Lawson application. Council recently approved staff to begin work with Ciber, Inc as the vendor of choice to provide consulting services to Lee's Summit for this upgrade. These required licenses need to be obtained as soon as possible in order to begin this work with Ciber.
Additional details regarding the licenses is included below:
Micro Focus
· Third-party product
· Required to operate the Infor Lawson COBOL based applications
o Any Infor application that operates on Infor Lawson System Foundation
§ Infor Lawson Enterprise Financial Management
§ Infor Lawson Supply Chain Management
§ Infor Talent Management Human Resources
§ Infor Human Resource Management
Two products
1. Compiler
· Compiles Infor Lawson COBOL applications for operation
· Provides a Developer license for those customers modifying the Infor Lawson COBOL applications
· Infor Lawson Application Development Workbench license is required
2. Application Runtime
· Provides runtime services for Infor Lawson COBOL applications
Micro Focus Visual COBOL required when customers move to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, which Lee's Summit pl...
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