SAKS

CHALLENGE: SAKS Inc, is a mall-based specialty retailer of apparel and accessories targeting young women in their teens and twenties. With their existing rollout of Lawson Portal and the Lawson Self Evident Applications, they were in need of a solution that would allow them the ability to roll out access to this portal to thousands of both corporate and store employees without having to manually enter employee information. In addition, SAKS wanted to provide the new employee portal in a secure environment in order to provide browser access for confidential employee information.

SOLUTION: Acrinet was engaged to assist SAKS by providing a NEW Java based solution for securing Lawson Portal that otherwise has inadequate security for any company rolling out the Lawson Portal system where there exists a "shared computer" environment. In addition, this company wide rollout consists of user authentication for thousands of employees, while also providing immediate access to specific user information, bookmarks, and corporate links that would otherwise require duplicate manual entry in many different locations within the Lawson system and SAKS’s security platform. While providing this solution, Acrinet also automated the process so that it maintains the Lawson system by itself, without human intervention, and as a result integrates the Lawson security platform with the Active Directory platform.

BENEFIT: Acrinet provided this NEW Java based solution for SAKS so that the company’s IT and HR resources could focus on more business critical needs, rather than manual entry and daily maintenance of thousands employees. Within the retail industry, this is extremely crucial since there exists high turnover. In addition, employees that access their information while at work on a “shared computer” can be assured that SAKS is doing what they can to keep their information safe, and therefore be less likely to be a victim of identity theft.