Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: Friday, January 21, 2000

Time Called: 9:30 a.m.

Location: Lithonia Lighting – Hosted by Lithonia Lighting

I. Presentation

Member Spotlight – Lithonia Lighting

Fred Friedel, Director of Accounting Operations

Robyn DeFilippis, Project Manager

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2000index.html

II. Presentation

Workflow

Dana Tate, KPMG

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2000index.html

III. Breakout Sessions

The following sessions were held on January 21.

Workflow Dana Tate, KPMG

Release 11i Technical Considerations Erik Shin, Sage Consulting

Global Implementation Issues Lourdes Godfrey- Equifax

Manisha Patel- Motorola

Steve Bradley – Oasis Consulting

Volunteers are needed to facilitate future breakout sessions. Please send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com and volunteer in your area of expertise.

 

  1. General Business - Brenda Carlton, KPMG Consulting

Next Meeting – February 18

Host: Noblestar Consulting

Location – Villa Christina Dunwoody Hotel, 45 Perimeter Summit Blvd., (off Ashford-Dunwoody)

Reservations: Millie Thomas, 404-816-9123- mthomas@noblestar.com

February 18 Agenda

Presentation #1 Member Spotlight Company

To be announced

Presentation #2 I-Procurement

Linda Nagelsen - Oracle Corp

Breakout Sessions, 11:00 – 12:00

1) I-Procurement Linda Nagelsen - Oracle

2) Technical tba

3) Enabling "Change" Bill Raasch, Crystallize Inc. ***

4) Tba

***Crystallize provides enabling technologies that allow you to copy, merge, and change Oracle’s configurations, operational and transaction data. The Cyrstallize technology will enable the implementation and support of:

Legacy data conversion

Duplicate management

Changes to flexfields

Organizational change - Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

Instance consolidation

Financial realignment

Configuration and instance rollouts.

New List Server - OAUGNET

The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) announces a new Oracle Applications list server, OAUGnet. OAUGnet offers you a list server with constant monitoring, prompt communication of any list server problems, an easy-to-use web interface, and an archive updated daily.

To subscribe to OAUGnet, send a blank email to:

subscribe-oaugnet@lists.ksinet.com

If you have any questions about this new service, please visit OAUG’s Web site for full details:

http://www.oaug.org/public/oaugnet.html

ECO/SEOUC Conference in Atlanta – March 19-22, 2000

For the first time ever, the East Coast’s "oldest, newest and best" Oracle developers’ conference (ECO) is joining forces with their southern (SEOUC) counterpart. Join us in Atlanta March 19-22, 2000 at the Atlanta Hilton and Towers. Conference highlights include more than 80 technical and functional presentations, panel discussions, half-day workshops, Oracle education mini-lessons and vendor booths. Attendance is expected to be ~800.

Web sites are www.seouc.org and www.oracleusers.com.

Sunday Expert Panel Discussions

Monday/Tuesday 80 presentations, Oracle University presentations, exhibition

Wednesday Half day workshops

Volunteers Needed

Volunteers needed to present a topic, facilitate a breakout session, serve on a panel or present their company as the Member Spotlight Company. Send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com.

Liaison Contact Person Needed from each Member Company

One liaison is needed from each company to forward Atl-OAUG notifications and newsletters to the other Oracle users/consultants within your company. Consultants are encouraged to invite their clients to Atl-OAUG.

Thanks!

Thanks to Lithonia Lighting for providing us with the conference space, refreshments, audiovisual equipment and door prizes. Thanks also go to OptioSoftware, BOSS Corp, KPMG and SEOUC conference for providing door prizes.

63 attendees were present. Companies represented are as follows.

Users:

Lithonia Lighting, NCR, Boral Bricks, Chick-fil-A, Tensar, Flexible Products, WebMD, BellSouth, Motorola Energy Systems, Char-Broil, Equifax,

Consultants:

AnswerThink, Oasis, KPMG, BOSS Corp, Application Technology Services, Noblestar, Deloitte & Touche, AT & S, Sage Group, Hitachi, Advance Database Services

Vendors

OptioSoftware, Crystallize, Precise Software, Oracle,