Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: Friday, November 19, 1999

Time Called: 9:30 a.m.

Location: JW Marriott – Hosted by OptioSoftware

I. Presentation

Member Spotlight - Flexible Products

Bruce Duttenhofer – CIO

Dan Crowley- MIS Director

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/index.html#nov99

II. Presentation

Release 11i

Chris Thornhill, Oracle Corp

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/index.html#nov99

III. Breakout Sessions

The following sessions were held on November 19.

Release 11i Chris Thornhill - Oracle

Technical Lance Walton – Home Wireless

Balanced Scorecard Craig Mikus - Oracle

E-Business Enablement Optio Software

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

 
  1. General Business - Brenda Carlton, KPMG Consulting

Next Meeting – January 21

Host: Lithonia Lighting

Location – to be announced

Reservations: Fred Freidel, 770-922-9000 ext. 2388 - Ffriedel@Lithonia.com

January 21 Agenda

Presentation #1 Member Spotlight Company

Lithonia Lighting

Presentation #2 Workflow

Megan Phillips - Oracle Corp

Breakout Sessions, 11:00 – 12:00

1) Workflow -Megan Phillips - Oracle

2) Technical - Release 11i Technical Aspects – Eric Shin, Sage Group

3) Global Implementation Issues – Lourdes Godfrey- Equifax & Manisha Patel- Motorola & Steve Bradley - Oasis

4) Tba

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. See www.seouc.org and www.oracle-users.com.

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@kpmg.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.

Golf Outing

Thanks to Eric Shin for organizing the first Atlanta-OAUG golf outing after the November meeting. Ten golfers enjoyed an afternoon at North Fulton golf course with prizes contributed by InfoShark and KPMG. Thanks to Eric, this will be a regularly scheduled event after every Atl-OAUG meeting.

Thanks!

Thanks to OptioSoftware for providing us with the conference space, refreshments, audiovisual equipment and door prizes. OptioSoftware was very generous in providing gifts to each attendee and a $200 grand prize gift certificate. Thanks also go to InfoShark, KPMG and Noblestar for providing door prizes.

70 attendees were present. Companies represented are as follows.

Users:

Flexible Products, Home Wireless Network, BellSouth, Motorola Energy Systems, Char-Broil, Equifax, Green Way Medical, Siemens, NCR, Inacom, Sea Ray Boats (drove down from Knoxville!), UPS

Consultants:

AnswerThink, KPMG, BOSS Corp, Application Technology Services, Diversified, Noblestar, Deloitte, AT & S, Sage Group, Andersen, Deloitte, Hitachi, Cumberland,

 

Vendors

OptioSoftware, InfoShark, Oracle,