EYT, formerly Ernst & Young Technologies and Lawson Software announced GoEYT, powered by Lawson application service provider (ASP) offering. EYT and Lawson also announced delivery of GoFinancials, the first ASP offering available in the GoEYT suite. GoFinancials will be generally available on September 18, 2000. The GoEYT strategy provides a comprehensive Lawson-powered application offering that addresses the business needs of high-growth companies like dot-coms and telcos. GoFinancials gives these companies the highly scalable lawson.insight Financials. Customers utilizing GoFinancials will be able to add additional GoEYT modules or upgrade to a full lawson.insight e-business solution as their business needs evolve. As an ASP member of the LawsonTone remote computing program, EYT maintains and hosts the applications, providing all necessary infrastructure support through an affordable subscription-based model. This innovative ASP solution alleviates burdens on the customer`s in-house IT staff, enabling them to remain focused on growing their core business. "EYT has a history of successful Lawson implementations under its belt and we are excited about our newest joint effort, GoFinancials, which gives smaller businesses a best-of-breed financial solution through a customer-friendly ASP model," said Jim Hunt, chief executive officer, EYT. "This unique offering gives growth companies the chance to leapfrog their competition without the burden of timely and costly infrastructure support." GoFinancials empowers the customer with the ability to automate all financial functions over the Internet, including general ledger upkeep, invoice generation, bill payment and bank transaction recording. GoFinancials offers the customer a rapid time-to-market financial application solution to meet their immediate business needs without requiring an implementation and IT staff. In addition, GoFinancials presents the customer with increased certainty of implementation, lower start up costs, reduced IT staffing costs and 24x7 application access and support. "GoFinancials will allow us to focus more time on our core business of providing cutting edge broadband services as opposed to spending time and money on financial operations," said John Diamond, president of Broadstar Networks, an EYT GoFinancials beta customer. The LawsonTone remote computing program integrates network, hosting and business process expertise with Lawson`s enterprise-class e-business solutions delivered via the Internet. LawsonTone partners currently count 467 customers using Lawson e-business solutions in a hosted delivery model. "As a new LawsonTone application service provider, EYT is helping smaller companies get the same kinds of benefits from Lawson`s e-business solutions as large enterprises ? without the up-front license, implementation and IT staffing costs," said Eric Morgan, executive vice president, Digital Markets, Lawson Software. "The availability of Lawson-powered e-services like GoFinancials validates Lawson`s vision and provides proof of Lawson`s leadership as the provider of e-business engines for the world`s ASPs."

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