Date: Tuesday, July 15 ,
1997
Time Called: 2:30 p.m.
Location:
KPMG-Peat Marwick
One Peachtree Center, SunTrust Plaza
303 Peachtree Street
On block surrounded by Peachtree St., Baker St. and Peachtree Center Ave.
I. Presentation: "Project Tracking in Oracle Projects - Capital, Contract, & Indirect"
David Cogdill - Tactics, Inc.
David presented an overview of the operation of Oracle
Projects and how it tracks individual projects from design to
capitalization. For those unfamiliar with the module, it is designed
to be a support system for accounting which tracks the costing
and billing of project-based information. It is not designed
to provide information on resource allocation, critical path analysis,
or charts and graphs for financial statements. It is integrated
with other Oracle modules such as purchasing, payables, general
ledger, and fixed assets. Paper copies of the Power Point presentation
were distributed.
II. Presentation: "Taking Advantage of Descriptive Flexfields"
Richard Tyre - EXOR Technologies, Inc.
Richard's presentation focused on the advantages
and limitations of setting up descriptive flexfields in Oracle
modules. Summarized, his major points were:
1. Descriptive flexfields are a powerful tool for
adding needed extra information not shown or found elsewhere in
a module. However, it is best to insure that before setting up
descriptive flexfields, the user be very aware of what
information the module already offers, and find alternatives to
descriptive flexfields if possible.
2. Because descriptive flexfields do not interface
with Oracle's standard reports, one will need to write custom
reports using SQL or a report writer in order to gain the full
advantage of using them.
3. Remember, the more descriptive flexfields added,
the more time it will take for data entry and report writing.
It is best to incorporate data into descriptive flexfields only
if it is going to be used regularly and cannot be accessed elsewhere
through other modules or existing key flexfields.
III. General Business - Brenda Carlton, The Tensar
Corporation
1. Meeting location - The question was raised regarding
whether the group would be willing to attend a meeting in Peachtree
City, since NCR has kindly offered their space. However, much
of the group seemed indifferent to the proposal. Remember that
OAUG-Atlanta needs spaces for future meetings, so please volunteer
to hold a meeting if possible.
2. Future meetings - by the request of several members,
all meetings after August 19, 1997 will be held on the third
Friday of the month. Please set your calendars for meetings
on October 17th and November 21st.
3. National OAUG Conference - The national OAUG
conference in Orlando will start on September 14, 1997. Disney-area
hotel space is very tight, so contact Meeting Expectations if
you are still planning on attending. OAUG-Atlanta will plan on
holding a meeting on Sunday, September 14th, in the afternoon
for Orlando attendees. Wear comfortable shoes, since you will
be walking between three hotels to attend all of the meetings
planned!
4. Volunteers needed - Please volunteer to help
your OAUG chapter!
A) Host a meeting
- October 17 and November 21. Must have seating for 50+, provide
light refreshments and monitor R.S.V.P.'s as well as provide copying
capability and an overhead projector.
B) Speaker - October 17 and November 21.
Suggested topics are Oracle Alert, Web Enabled Oracle, Oracle
Workflow and Custom Reports
C) Maintain web enabled membership roster
- Would be responsible for collecting data on all members to be
viewed at the //www.atloaug.org web page via a membership password.
Information is to be collected via e-mail list server and would
include member's name, title, company, industry, number of employees/users,
address, e-mail address, phone/fax number, job (user, consultant,
vendor), status (live, implementing)., applications installed,
applications which member has expertise. Information would be
compiled on all members onto a spreadsheet and sent to webmaster.
Updates would be made as needed.
D) Newsletter editor for a "Tips & Techniques" newsletter to be published and distributed via e-mail list server.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 p.m. for networking
at the Marriott Marquis.
Thanks to KPMG Peat Marwick and Steve Bradley
for allowing us the use of their conference room!
The next Atlanta OAUG meeting will be August 19th
at BellSouth.
Thirty-four people were in attendance. Companies
represented:
| Users | Consultants |
| Tensar Corporation | KPMG Peat Marwick |
| BTNA | EXOR Technologies |
| BellSouth | Computer Systems Authority |
| National Distributing | EDS |
| OHM Corp. | Deloitte & Touche |
| MCI | Source Services |
| ATS | Tactics, Inc. |
| NCR | BOSS Corp. |
| Paragon Trade Brands | CAC |
See web page for updates, agendas, directions, minutes, list server, etc: http://www.atloaug.org