Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: Friday, June 16, 2000

Time Called: 9:30 a.m.

Location: BellSouth, - Hosted by BellSouth

I. Presentation

Reporting Panel

Toni Cobb - National Data Corp

Craig Mikus - Oracle

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

II. Presentation

Open Forum – Issues With Oracle

Lourdes Mallo Godfrey, Asst VP - Equifax; lourdes.godfrey@equifax.com

Jim Crum, Chief Operating Officer - BOSS Corporation; jim.crum@bosscorporation.com

Dan Crowley, Technical Specialist-IS, Dow Chemical; dcrowley@flexpro.com

Karen Gilbert, CSA Consulting & Director – OAUG; kmgilbert@compuserve.com

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

Email addresses have been included so members can forward new issues to the panel.

Also, the address for the national director of OAUG is jcollins@meetingexpectations.com.

The Issues Forum was a new addition this month. We will continue with this forum on June and January of each year in order to get our issues to the OAUG board prior to their quarterly meetings with the executives of Oracle Corp. At each of our meetings, one of the members of the forum will update us with the progress on the outstanding issues and also collect any new issues to be presented to Oracle Corp. Our intent is to provide Oracle with some constructive feedback regarding the impact of their systems & services on their real-world customers - us!

This month the Forum focused on three issues: 1) Development 2) Pricing Strategy 3) Global Support Strategy. In attendance was Karen Gilbert, director of OAUG and Jim Collins, Executive Director of OAUG. This is a grass-roots effort to have our voices heard. We hope to replicate this format at the other local user groups too.

III. Breakout Sessions

The following sessions were held on June 16.

1) Reporting

2) Development (architecture, functionality, future enhancements, future releases, software quality)

3) Sales & Marketing (licenses, contracts, pricing)

4) Support (support process, quality of support, MetaLink, patches, de-support)

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

During our networking time (9:00 – 9:30) one vendor is invited to display and demo their product offering.

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, KPMG Consulting

Next Meeting – August 18

Host: AnswerThink

Location: Villa Christina, Sandy Springs (check www.atloaug.org)

Reservations: Laura Whelan, 404-682-2580, lwhelan@answerthink.com

August 18 Agenda

Presentation #1 Member Spotlight

Ed Beckett, United Parcel Service (UPS)

Presentation #2 Release 11i Upgrade Panel

Karen Gilbert – CSA Consulting & Director - OAUG

Chris Taylor – Chick-fil-A

Dan Strain – Chick-fil-A

Tba

Contact bcarlton@sprynet.com to volunteer

Breakout Sessions, 11:00 – 12:00

1) Release 11i New Functionality Panel Members

2) Technical –Adding Fields to Folder Forms Scott Mitchell, Stonebridge

3) APS - Advance Planning and Scheduling Chris Spangler – Deloitte-

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Volunteers Needed

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Thanks!

Thanks to BellSouth for providing us with the conference space, refreshments and audiovisual equipment. Thanks also go to Precise Software, KPMG and Cedar Group for providing door prizes.

60 attendees were present. Companies represented are as follows:

Users:

Char-Broil, Equifax, Tensar, National Data Corp, BellSouth, Equifax, Motorola, U.S. Dept of Energy, J.M. Huber, Urban Media, WC Bradley, LendLease REI, Schweitzer-Mauduit, The Tensar Corp., Flexible Products

 

Consultants:

BOSS Corp, Application Technology Services, The DBA Group, Cumberland Tech, Sage Group, KPMG, CSA, Oasis PricewaterhouseCoopers, AnswerThink, Advanced Database Services, ThinkFast

Vendors

OptioSoftware, Oracle, Cedar Group, Precise Software, AlphaBox