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.
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
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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.comIf you have any questions about this new service, please visit OAUG’s Web site for full details:
http://www.oaug.org/public/oaugnet.htmlECO/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,