Lawson Software and Perceptive Software, Inc., announced anexpansion of their existing partnership. A Lawson partner since2001, Perceptive will provide content management solutions toLawson customers in healthcare, financial services, publicservices, retail, and other markets Lawson serves. Under theexpanded partnership, Perceptive now is a gold-level partner withinLawson's Complementary Partner Program.

"ImageNow (Perceptive's document management and imagingsoftware) provides Lawson customers with improved efficiencies,"says Terry Plath, global director of business development forLawson. "The ability for users to retrieve relevant documentsrelated to Lawson transactions or records directly from any LawsonS3 application helps eliminate the frustration of manualpaper-shuffling, filing, and searching--ultimately increasingefficiencies as our customers look for ways to minimizepaper-intensive processes."

ImageNow allows for rapid integration and added functionalitythat can help increase productivity and the overall user experiencewith Lawson applications. More than 120 Lawson customers areutilizing ImageNow to complement their Lawson solutions. ImageNowcan be set up to work directly with Lawson applications, operatingas though it is built in to the Lawson business system, enablingusers to access documents quickly when they are needed. PerceptiveSoftware's patented LearnMode technology is designed to simplifyintegration with the Lawson system, contributing to a timelyimplementation and providing Lawson customers with a faster returnon their document management investment.

"We're thrilled to expand our relationship with Lawson to thebenefit of our mutual customers," says Tim Helton, executive vicepresident of sales and alliances for Perceptive. "Our partnershiphas proven to be extremely productive for both companies, and theresulting implementations provide real business value forcustomers."