Lawson Software has unveiled cloud-based disaster recovery service, which is designed to help its customers achieve business continuity within hours of a technology-related disaster.

Lawson said that its Disaster Recovery allows organisations to resume their business processes, including payroll, finance, accounts receivable/payable, inventory management, and procurement, within 12 hours.

The company is delivering the new Disaster Recovery offering via its Cloud Services

Through this service, Lawson pulls customer data on an hourly basis into Lawson Disaster Recovery and provides a two-hour restore point in the event of a disaster.

Lawson Cloud Services vice president Terry Plath said that by taking advantage of the flexible capacity and scalability of the cloud, the company can quickly restore the customers’ instance of the software along with their production data to minimise down time.