Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, January 16, 2004

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               170 Systems

Location:         Hilton Northeast, Norcross

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

170 Systems – Christian Rossetti, CRossetti@170Systems.com

 

II. Presentation 

Member Spotlight – Merial – Ed Cotter

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2004index.html

 

III. Presentation

NCR Global Project – Jay Patel, Bearing Point

jnpatel@bearingpoint.net

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2004index.html

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

1. Vendor Managed Inventory - Arul Murugan, enrich IT, arul@enrichIT.com

2. Performance Tuning of 11i - Michael Yesudas, Sourcetec International, Michael.Yesudas@ps.ge.com

3. Oracle Application Manager - Jeff Walsh, Consultant, fredshark@earthlink.net

4. Projects Resource Mgt (Contracts, Manager, Collaberation, Intelligence) - Jeanie Powell, Oracle, jeanie.powell@oracle.com

 

Selected breakout presentations can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2004index.html

 

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

Next Meeting – March 19, 2004

Host:   OuterBay Technologies

Location: Villa Christina, 45 Perimeter Summit Blvd, Dunwoody, Georgia 30319

Reservations: Jenny Yang, jyang@outerbay.com, 408.340.1284

 

March 19 PRESENTATIONS           

            1. Member Spotlight: McKee Foods – David Griffin and Don Lastine

2. To Patch or Not to Patch ... It's Not a DBA Question, Alicia Hoekstra and John Stouffer, Solution Beacon

3. Technical - John Stouffer, Solution Beacon

4. 5. 6. – to be announced

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the March newsletter is February 27.  Please email your contributions to our editors.

Functional - satyakanth@bosscorporation.com

Technical - eshin@sagewisegroup.com  

The newsletter can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/newsletters/

 

Volunteers Needed

Speakers & breakout session facilitators for 2004

Please send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com to volunteer.

 

Become a Member of Atlanta OAUG

Go to www.atloaug.org and click on the button ‘Register as a Member’.  Admission is free and this keeps you informed as to upcoming meeting agendas, copies of newsletters, etc.  If you have changed email addresses lately, be sure to update your registration with a permanent address so you will receive meeting notifications.

 

Update Your Email Address

If you have changed email addresses since registering as a member of Atl-OAUG, please update your address by sending an email to webmaster@atloaug.org.

 

List Server - OAUGNET

The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) hosts an 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: OAUGNet-subscribe@oaug.com . The address of the new list is OAUGNet@oaug.com.  To switch to digest mode, send a blank e-mail to: OAUGNet-digest@oaug.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.

 

VII. Thanks!

Thanks to 170 Systems for providing us with conference space, breakfast, door prizes and audiovisual equipment.

Thanks to 170 Systems, OAUG, BOSS Corp, Merial and On Call DBA for providing door prizes.

 

65 attendees were present.  Companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

Mirant, Motorola, Cingular, McKee Foods, Tensar, Georgia Lottery, Merial, WC Bradley, Boral Bricks, Mactec Engineering, US Dept of Energy, Lithonia Lighting

 

Consultants:

SageWise, Protégé, Baytree, Titan, Wave, CSC, BOSS Corp, Harvest, Noble & Assoc, DBA Group, Bearing Point

 

Vendors

170 Systems, Unitask, Oracle