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December 29, 2005 - HealthPartners, Inc (Minneapolis, MN), a premier Lawson Software client, and parent company to a large number of outlying hospitals, facilities, and clinics, has purchased LALOG v2.0 for its Lawson Software production environment. After evaluating LALOG for the past 3 months in their development and testing environments, HealthPartners was satisfied LALOG v2.0 delivered what MTC claimed ... no more ... no less!  "I was prepared to let HP evaluate LALOG v2.0 for as long as they saw fit to feel comfortable that it performed as promised ...", Tom Francen was quoted as saying.  Health Partners, Inc. now has at its fingertips the robust integrated power to both intelligently record and report against online transactional data.   Interested in finding out more on LALOG v2.0? Click Here for more information. Delivering On Promises ... another MTC difference.

August 17, 2005 - Midwest Technologies is proud to release LALOG v2.0. LALOG clients now have the robust integrated power to both intelligently record and report against online transactional data. This means not only a re you able to identify that user Janet Jones performed a delete on form HR11 last Thursday in Product Line PROD, you now have the tools to identify the raw data the user deleted! Interested? Click Here for more information. Innovation ... another MTC difference.

December 29, 2005 - HealthPartners, Inc (Minneapolis, MN), a premier Lawson Software client, and parent company to a large number of outlying hospitals, facilities, and clinics, has purchased LALOG v2.0 for its Lawson Software production environment. After evaluating LALOG for the past 3 months in their development and testing environments, HealthPartners was satisfied LALOG v2.0 delivered what MTC claimed ... no more ... no less!  "I was prepared to let HP evaluate LALOG v2.0 for as long as they saw fit to feel comfortable that it performed as promised ...", Tom Francen was quoted as saying.  Health Partners, Inc. now has at its fingertips the robust integrated power to both intelligently record and report against online transactional data.   Interested in finding out more on LALOG v2.0? Click Here for more information. Delivering On Promises ... another MTC difference.

August 17, 2005 - Midwest Technologies is proud to release LALOG v2.0. LALOG clients now have the robust integrated power to both intelligently record and report against online transactional data. This means not only are you able to identify that user Janet Jones performed a delete on form HR11 last Thursday in Product Line PROD, you now have the tools to identify the raw data the user deleted! Interested? Click Here for more information. Innovation ... another MTC difference.

April 28, 2005 - Mr. Robert Williams of HealthPartners (Minneapolis, MN), seeking to satisfy HIPAA requirements, initiated an evaluation of LALOG for their Lawson Software ERP. "We believe strongly in our products ... "Tom Francen of MTC was quoted, " ... and will let HealthPartners evaluated LALOG for as long as necessary, such that they feel confident the product works as advertised!". Client Satisfaction ... another MTC difference.

April 11, 2005 - Tom Francen of Midwest Technologies Corporation signs with Catholic Health Initiatives to help configure, install, train, and convert legacy applications of 48 MBO's to a centralized Lawson suite. With over 150,000 online Portal users, this will prove to be Lawson Software's largest client and a challenging multi-year project ... a task Tom Francen is ready and experienced enough to undertake! Stay Tooned for the latest CHI details.

November 18, 2004 - MTC and St. John Medical Center personnel successfully completed the application and technology upgrade of their Lawson Software legacy system. "Every upgrade has its troubles and issues ... its how we respond to these situations that define who we are", said Tom Francen. MTC representative Tom Francen, working together with Lawson support and Lenny of the St. John's Lawson support team, collaborated to ensure the success of the upgrade. Persistence ... another MTC difference.

July 12, 2004 - The State Of Texas Mental Health Division, Austin, TX signed with Tom Francen of Midwest Technologies to perform its Application Upgrade and Analysis. Tom Francen will be working onsite to ensure the Application Upgrade success. Guaranteed Results ... another MTC difference.

June 20, 2004 - St. John Medical Center, Tulsa, OK. Repeat Business is often the best indicator when it comes to evalating client satisfaction. Tom Francen goes above and beyond to ensure that when a company, such as St. John Medical Center, engages him in an initial contract, will want to work with him on future projects. Over 50% of MTC business is from our current client base. Needless to say, SJMC was estatic with the work performed by Tom Francen during this short term project. The extra-mile ... another MTC difference.

May 20, 2004 - Memorial Hospitals of Colorad Springs, CO called upon Midwest Technologies expert Tom Francen to shore-up the technical portion of their Lawson Implementation. Tom Francen's expertise helped Memorial Hospitals successfully stabilize their Lawson Software architecture and environment, as well as rapidly deploy all apsects of the implementation. Applied, Proven Expertise ... another MTC difference.

February 16, 2004 - Keystone Foods Corporation, Newark, NJ, successfully completed their employee renumbering project. Tom Francen of Midwest Technologies was brought on board to design, write, test, and implement the employee renumbering project on behalf of NetAspx. This project was performed in a 100 percent remote fashion ... which saved both bottom line dollars and project turn around time. Client conscious ... another MTC difference.

January 29, 2004 - Sharp Healthcare, San Diego, CA, successfully upgraded their Lawson Environment from 7.3.3 to 8.0.2. This upgrade process included re-applying LAPAGE to their newly upgraded environment. LAPAGE provides electronic notification for failed mission critical processes. Immediately after the upgrade, Sharp Healthcare needed to run payroll. John Tobin of Sharp Healthcare commented ... LAPAGE is functioning well. We were paged today when PR199 crashed due to invalid parameters..." Customer support and solid products ... another MTC difference.

January 15, 2004 - Jane Phillips Medical Center, Bartlesville, OK, successfully migrated (lateral port) their Lawson Software NT platform to Sun Solaris. MTC was brought on board to guarantee the success of this project. Prior to the lateral port, Jane Phillips experienced Lawson Software system instability, whose only remedy was to reboot the server (serveral times per week). Tom Francen of Midwest Technologies Corporation guided JPMC through the complex lateral port process. Since going live on Sun Solairs, JPMC has yet to have to reboot their Lawson servers. Client Satisfaction ... another MTC difference.

January 7, 2004 - Current and prospective clients wishing to utilize Midwest Technologies consulting services can now enter their Request For Proposal (RFP's) online. Our RFP Entry System includes features such as file specification uploads (up to 3 files per RFP entry), additional comments, contact information, and more. Click Here to enter our RFP system.

December 18, 2002 - Our Lawson 8 Upgrade project plan is now available for download ... Click Here to download the project plan. Our Lawson 8 Upgrade project plan contains more than 6,000 steps, and is created in MS Project 2002 format. This free project plan comes without warranty.

December 9, 2002 - MTC Clients can now maintain their account information online. In addition to company information, our clients can also browse their current and expired product license keys. Click Here to start maintaining your company's information.

December 5, 2002 - We are pleased to announce the release of our redesigned website. Besides giving midtechcorp.com a new face, we've made the website browser independent, support all versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera Web Browser, and Mozilla Web Browsers. We've also incorporated a killer search engine, allowing our customers to quick navigate to their specific interest. In addition, we've added a secured access areas for our customers, partners, and employee's. Finally, we've added a AutoKey Generator ... for clients wanting to demo our products ... cruise our site ... and provide us with your feedback.

November 27, 2002 - Our version identification product (MTCVER) has been updated to allow web-checking across to our new website. To use MTCVER's WebCheck option, you must download the latest version of MTCVER (currently 1.0.3). MTCVER is available for download at our Secured Client Access area.

October 17, 2002 - We are pleased to announce today, our products will support the Lawson 8.x Environment series. LAPAGE, LALOG, LALOCK, LAMOBILE, and LAGDG are all available for the 8.x Environment series. If you are upgrading from Environment 7.x to 8.x, and currently have our products, please visit the Secured Client Access for additional upgrade instructions.

September 15, 2002 - For Healthcare Companies, we are pleased to announce LALOG satisfies the stringent HIPAA auditing requirements. LALOG records who has access what form, how often, and the action the user performed on the specific form (e.g. Adds, Changes, Deletes, etc.). LALOG Data Mining Utility allows you to then drill into your audit repository, giving your management team the perfect tool to audit your employee's actions!

March 22, 2001 - We are excited to announce the release of LALOCK (TM) for Lawson Software (R) on Unix and NT based platforms. We believe this product will set a new industry standard in how companies, specifically Lawson Software clients, secure their Online and Batch systems. LALOCK allows your security officers to massively secure applications/forms from users WITHOUT modifying your current security setup. Visit the LALOCK webpage for more information.

January 10, 2001 - We are excited to announce the release of LAMOBILE (TM) for Lawson Software (R) on Unix and NT based platforms. LAMOBILE allows your company key personnel to submit batch jobs with a cell phone, pager, email, or other non-LID interfaced devices. Visit the LAMOBILE webpage for more information.

July 16, 2000 - Announced today, we are proud to declare LALOG Generally Available. LALOG records who has access what forms, in which product line, how often, and the action the user performed (e.g. Add, Change, Delete, etc.). LALOG also comes with a Data Mining Tool for your key personnel to generate history reports. Visit the LALOG webpage for more information.

Febuary 22, 2000 - We are excited to announce the release of LAGDG (TM) for Lawson Software (R) on Unix and NT based platforms. LAGDG allows current Lawson Software clients are archive critical datasets (e.g. payroll checks file, ap checks file, etc), creating multiple generations of these files, while maintaining data integrity. Visit the LAGDG webpage for more information.

December 3, 1999 - We are excited to announce the release of LAPAGE (TM) for Lawson Software (R) on Unix and NT based platforms. LAPAGE allows your Online Forms and Batch Jobs to communication with your internet addressable device (e.g. Pager, Email, Cell Phone, etc.) base on Paging Rules your employee's define. Visit the LAPAGE webpage for more information.

mid·tech·corp (our moto) - to provide exception products that leverage your Lawson Software investment; to provide superior, timely, strong, and accurate consulting services; to build and nuture relationships with our clients.

03/18/08 - Tom Francen presents at CUE 2008 in Las Vegas ...

09/03/07 - MTC certifies its products for Lawson LSF 9.0 ...

07/16/07 - LSF 9.0 horizontal and vertical scaling implementation ...

04/26/07 - HealthPartners, Inc. purchases LALOG v2.0 ...

02/12/07 - MTC releases LALOG v2.0 ... records online data in realtime ...

01/30/07 - CEO Tom Francen demo's for Analyst International its product offerings ...