Lawson Software launched an upgrade to its enterprise resource planning suite with service architecture (SOA) tools from IBM. Lawson Release 9 comes bundled with IBM’s WebSphere Application Server ND 6.0, Tivoli Directory Server 6.0 and DB2 Enterprise Edition 8.2, officials said. Release 9 also has new features for regulatory compliance and business process management.

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