Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, January 20, 2006

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host: Bottomline Technologies

Location: Sheraton Buckhead

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

Bottomline Technologies – Gordon Terris, gterris@bottomline.com

 

II. Presentations

CRM/ Customer Data Hub - David Judd and Kim Murdock, Oracle

david.judd@oracle.com, kim.murdock@oracle.com

 

iExpenses - Key to Speedy Processing - Chetan Manjarekar, Patni,

Chetan.manjarekar@patni.com

 

Presentations at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2006index.html

 

III. Breakout Sessions

a. Advanced Pricing - Using Pricing Attributes and Product Attributes, Nagarajan Srinivasan,  enRich IT; nagarajan.srinivasan@enrichit.com

 

b. Extreme Project Management for the Next Generation of IT Projects - Paul Frangoulis, NCR; pf185012@ncr.com

 

c. RFID Middleware-Integration to the Entire Supply Chain - Kirit Goyal, Genpact

kirit.goyal@ge.com

 

IV. OAUG News

 

Christine Hilgert, Director of Meetings, Meeting Expectations, shared upcoming conference information. The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) (formerly International Oracle Users Group), the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest) are combining to host one conference.

 

         COLLABORATE 06
Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community
April 23-27, 2006 - Gaylord Opryland
Nashville
, TN

See http://www.oaug.org/conferences/2006

OAUG eLearning Returns: Free Online Education and Training

The OAUG is offering free, easy-to-access educational, training and networking opportunities for the Oracle family of applications users — OAUG Training Tuesdays and OAUG Community Thursdays.

Tuesdays - See http://www.oaug.org/elearning/trainingtuesdays/

Thursdays – See http://www.oaug.org/elearning/communitythursdays/

Future – OAUG will soon be hosting a job board on their web site. Stay tuned for further details.

 

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

NEXT MEETING – March 17, 2006 – Road to Nashville

 

Host: Solution Beacon – Road to Nashville

Location: Villa Christina, Dunwoody, GA – 9:00 – 4:00 (extended hours)

Reservations:  kzastro@solutionbeacon.com

The event is free to attend, lunch included.

Register: http://www.solutionbeacon.com/RTNStops.htm.

 

Desktop Conference – February 21 – 23

Virtual Conference you can attend from your desktop. Early registration ends February 1.

Presented by BI/DW SIG, ODTUG, and Oracle Corporation.

See http://desktopconference2006.org/

 

Georgia Oracle User Group Conference (Technical)

The 2006 Georgia Oracle Users' Conference is a two-day Oracle technical conference for database administrators, application developers, and IT managers interested in the Oracle environment. The conference features top-flight, nationally-recognized database authorities from Oracle and from the industry. Costs have been kept reasonable to allow maximum participation from a wide variety of database personnel.

Conference March 20-21;Kennesaw State University
Half day class: March 22: Post-Conference half-day Performance Tuning class with Cary Milsap

www.gouser.org/conference2006.html

 

Volunteers Needed

Speakers, hosts & breakout facilitators for 2006.

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.

 

VI. Thanks!

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

Thanks to Bottomline Technologies and OAUG for providing door prizes. Bottomline Technologies gave away a satellite radio with a six month subscription.

 

Forty five attendees were present.  User companies are represented as follows:

 

User Companies Represented:

Cox Communications, Welding Services, NDC Health, Thyssenkrupp Elevator, McKee Foods, Cingular, NCR, WC Bradley,