Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, January 21, 2005

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               Logical Apps

Location:         The Clubhouse, Buckhead, GA

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

Logical Apps - Mark Cuneo, mcuneo@logicalapps.com

 

II. Presentation 

Mining for Gold – Using Metalink to Find Golden Oracle Nuggets of Information – Don Driggs, Solution Beacon - ddriggs@solutionbeacon.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2005index.html

 

III. Presentation

Panel: Lessons Learned to Make Your Implementation Successful

Don Driggs, Solution Beacon - ddriggs@solutionbeacon.com

Lourdes Godfrey, CPM, PMP - godfreyhouse@mindspring.com

Paul Frangoulis, Titan Technology Partners - PaulFrangoulis@ttpartners.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2005index.html

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

  1. Standby DB Setup for E-Business Suite 11i, Erik Shin, SageWise Group, Inc. - eshin@sagewisegroup.com
  2. Organizing Users for the Next Oracle Initiative – Lourdes Godfrey, CPM, PMP and Paul Frangoulis, Titan Technology Partners;
  3. Cash/Treasury Management Connection - Ron Bridges, SunTrust - Ronald.Bridges@SunTrust.com

 

V. OAUG News –

Enhancement Request System:

The OAUG Board of Directors and Oracle Corporation are announcing the Pilot Program for the OAUG Enhancement Request System (ERS).

The goal of the OAUG ERS Pilot Program is to comprehensively test the new system with live enhancement data from two specific product areas:

 - Self Service Human Resources; and

 - Oracle Order Management.

You are encouraged to enter enhancements for either product by logging in to the OAUG ERS:

http://secure.meetingexpectations.com/oaug/EnhancementRequestHome.asp

Voting for submitted and approved enhancement requests has been extended to January 31, 2005.

OAUG Connection Point 2005

The 2005 OAUG conference will be held June 13 – 16 in Dallas, Texas. See the conference hotel at

http://www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylordtexan/

Plan now to share your ideas, innovations and solutions during the OAUG Connection Point™ 2005

 conference. The call for presentations is now open. Paper, panel and training applications due Feb 7.

 Accepted papers, trainers and panel moderators notified March 8. Topics:

 

Application Integration

Manageability

Business Intelligence / Corporate Performance Management

Manufacturing / Distribution

Customer Relationship Management

Professional Development

       Financials

Projects

Human Resources

Public Sector / Education / Government

 

Technical and System Administration

 

VI. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

Next Meeting – February 18, 2005

Host: Noetix Corp

Location: Villa Christina, Dunwoody

Reservations: Sally Hicks, Sally.Hicks@noetix.com, 425-372-2688

 

February 18 PRESENTATIONS

  1. Member Spotlight: Porex - Kevin Harrigan, Porex
  2. XML Publisher - Gordon Crump, Oracle
  3. Best Practices for Implementing and Upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite - Jeff Walsh, CSC; 

Arul Murugan, enRich IT

  1. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) – Is it right for you?           Jim Whiteman, Signum Group
  2. Oracle Data Hubs: a New and Exciting Concept - Bill Dunham, Allstream
  3. Vendor Spotlight: Noetix - Andy Donovan, Noetix

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the February newsletter is February 3rd.  Please email your contributions to our editors.

Functional - satyakanth@bosscorporation.com

Technical - eshin@sagewisegroup.com  

Previous issues can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/newsletters/

 

Volunteers Needed

Speakers & breakout session facilitators for 2005.

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.

 

Local Technical User Group

Monthly Meetings are in Dunwoody on the 2nd Thursday, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. See www.gouser.org.

 

VII. Thanks!

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

Thanks to Logical Apps, Motorola and OAUG for providing door prizes.

 

Sixty four attendees were present.  User companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

NDC Health, McKee Foods, Southern Company, RMC USA, Mirant, MACTEC, Oak Ridge AU, Advance Glass Fiber, Acuity Brands, Department of Energy, SunTrust, Boral Industries, Porex, Chick-fil-A, Cendian Logistics, Heery Intl, Motorola, Morgan Stanley, Equifax, Georgia Lottery