Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, March 21, 2003

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               DBA Group LLC

Location:         eDeltacom Data Center, Suwanee

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

DBA Group LLC – David Wolf

eDeltacom  - Matt Searfoss

 

II. Presentation 

Leverage Your ERP System to Increase Cash Flow;

Derk Weinheimer, Deloitte Solutions - dweinheimer@deloitte.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2003index.html

 

III. Presentation

Understanding your Customer with the eBusiness Center;

Scott Fitzgerald, Protégé Software Services - sfitzgerald@protege.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2003index.html

 

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

a. Multi-Org - Jay Patel, Bearing Point

b. CRM – The Real Story          - Jim Grebe, Value-Technology

c. Collaboration with your Suppliers - Bill O'Connor, Oracle

 

Tours of eDeltacom Data Center at 11:00 and 12:00 by Matt Searfoss

 

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

VI. OAUG Business – Lynne Weil, GEO/SIG Coordinator

Lynne announced the Northeastern-Oracle Applications & Technology Symposium (OATS) being held June 9-10 at Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA.  Lynne also brought many door prizes and gifts to award at our meetings.

 

Next Meeting – June 20

Host:    Quest Software, www.quest.com

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

Reservations: Rebecca Finney,  rfinney@quest.com , 800-306-9328  x8372

 

June 20 Agenda

MAIN PRESENTATIONS      

  1. New Features: Financials 11.5.7/8/9 - Jeanie Powell, Oracle
  2. Conduct Electronic Reverse Auctions/RFQ’s With Oracle Sourcing - Bill O'Connor, Oracle

 

BREAKOUT SESSIONS      

a. Taming a 'Killer' Project - Lourdes Godfrey , Project Manager

b. Q&A Follow Up - Supply Chain & Financials - Jeanie Powell and Bill O'Conner, Oracle

c. Need Volunteer        

d. Technical:  Erik Shin, SageWise Group

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the June newsletter is May 26.  Please email your contributions to our editors.

Technical - eshin@sagewisegroup.com  

Functional - satyakanth@bosscorporation.com

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

 

Volunteers Needed

June 20 - Breakout session facilitators.

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

 

OAUG Northeastern-Oracle Applications & Technology Symposium (OATS)

June 9-10 - Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA.

This unique two-day event will offer attendees both training and user presentations with special emphasis on Financial, Human Resource, and Manufacturing Applications and the Higher Education and Government industry.  For additional information and to register, please visit http://www.oaug.org/Conferences/SummerOATS2003/registration.shtml .

 

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

 

National OAUG Call for Papers

The official call for papers will "officially" open soon. Until then OAUG Members can submit papers whenever the mood strikes them. Just log on and select "Update My Profile." From there, hover over "My Profile," then click "Submit a Presentation". Or email them at papers@meetingexpectations.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.

 

VI. Thanks!

Thanks to DBA Group, LLC and eDeltacom for providing us with conference space, refreshments, audiovisual equipment and door prizes. Thanks also go to OAUG and Nancy Hill for providing door prizes. 

 

45 attendees were present.  Companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

Boral Bricks, McKee Foods, Ga Lottery, MBIA-Panasonic, Atlanta Housing Authority, Altec Industries, Motorola, HP, WC Bradley, US Dept of Energy,

 

Consultants:

DBA Group, SageWise, IBM, Value-Technology, Application Technology, PriceCompete, Mascon, BTS, Accenture, Protégé, Deloitte & Touche, SSI, Wave, Noble, Oasis

 

Vendors

Oracle, eDeltacom, Formscape, Optio Software, Optika