Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, February 18, 2005

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               Noetix Corp

Location:         Villa Christina, Dunwoody, GA

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

Noetix Corp - Andy Donovan - andy.donovan@noetix.com

 

II. Presentation 

Member Spotlight: Porex - Kevin Harrigan

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

 

III. Presentation

Data Hubs was cancelled – Re-scheduled for April 15, 11:00

 

Best Practices for Implementing and Upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite –

Jim Grebe, Value Technology - jgrebe@value-technology.com

Arul Murugan, enRich IT - arul@enrichIT.com

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

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

            Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) – Is it right for you?          

Jim Whiteman, Signum Group - jwhiteman@signumgroup.com

 

Sales and Operations Planning –

Mark Mandeville, Oracle - Mark.Mandeville@oracle.com

 

 

V. OAUG News

 

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.

 

VI. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

Next Meeting – April 15, 2005

Host: Applimation

Location: Villa Christina, Dunwoody

Reservations: Frank Bartell, fbartell@applimation.com, 212-500-1185

 

April 15 PRESENTATIONS

           

  1. Member Spotlight: AMVESCAP - Gregory Keith & Mark Clark
  2. Member Spotlight: Welding Services Inc Upgrade to 11.5.10 –

PaulFrangoulis, Titan Technology Partners and Doss Kuppuswamy, Welding Services

  1. Technical: PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA  - Mark Riley, Oracle
  2. Oracle Diagnostics Support - Chris Warticki, Oracle
  3. Oracle Data Hubs: a New and Exciting Concept - Bill Dunham, Allstream
  4. Vendor Spotlight: Applimation

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the April newsletter is March 31.  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 Noetix Corp for providing us with conference space, breakfast, door prizes and audiovisual equipment.

Thanks to Noetix Corp, Colibri LTD, Motorola and OAUG for providing door prizes.

 

Noetix - $100 American Express gift check, $50 Amazon Gift Certificate, Remote Control Porsche, Memory sticks, Shirts

Motorola – Flashlights

Colibri LTD – USB stick

 

Fifty attendees were present.  User companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

Web MD, McKee Foods, Mirant, MACTEC, Acuity Brands, Department of Energy, Porex, Cendian Logistics, Heery Intl, Georgia Lottery, Cox Communications, WC Bradley, Schweitzer-Mauduit