Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, October 19, 2001

 

Time Called:             8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               BellSouth

Location:              BellSouth, Midtown

 

I. Presentation

Survivor: R11i Upgrade at a Coal Mining Plant - Randy Rudkin, Ciber Enterprise

           

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2001index.html

 

II. Presentation

1) Project-Enable your Organization Projects 11i Overview

2) C-Commerce - Oracle's Direction on 11i Project Collaboration (product to be announced soon) - Julian Kozicki, JP Kozicki & Associates

 

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2001index.html

 

III. Breakout Sessions

 

1.  Optimizing

     Application Performance with Oracle 8i

RandyArseneau, Precise Software

www.precise.com

2. Functional Aspects of Migrating Data      Between Instances

Quan Wang, A&W International

3. Service Modules – Exploring Various       Scenarios and Benefits Offered

Christy Carter, Deloitte Consulting

4. Project Accounting

     Project Collaboration

Julian Kozicki, JP Kozicki & Associates

 
IV. Networking Game – Chris Sajda, Protégé Services
 
V. Vendor SpotlightMetricStream - Albert Thomas  See www.metricstream.com

 

VI. OAUG Member Get A Member Program

 

Shenita Scott of Meeting Expectations brought CD’s from previous conferences which were distributed to all users in attendance.  Shenita also explained the Member Get A Member Program allowing members to earn free membership, conference or exhibitor registration.  Each time a member refers a new dues paying member into OAUG, you will receive a $200 coupon redeemable toward any of OAUG’s programs or services.  See oaug.org/members/prot/news/member_get_member.html.

 

 

VII. General Business - Brenda Carlton, e.Solutions Consulting

 

Next Meeting – Jan 18

Host:               XIOtech, A Seagate Company

Location:            to be announced

Reservations:  Dennis Goines, 404-817-3708, dennis_goines@xiotech.com

 

January Agenda

 

8:30 – 9:10

Networking / Breakfast Snacks / Member Introductions

 

9:10 – 9:25

Welcome

Dennis Goines, XIOtech

9:25 – 9:35

Vendor Spotlight:   XIOTech

"Not all Storage Options are the S.A.M.E." - Doug Felsenthal

9:35 – 10:10

Panel: Modifying & Publishing Standard Reports Using the Rxi Tool

Eric Stouffer, System Architechs

 

v     Need 3 panel members

10:10 – 10:45

Business Intelligence - Financial, Purchasing, Marketing, Service

Kevin Bromberg, Oracle

10:45 – 10:50

Networking Fun / Prize

 

10:50 – 11:00

OAUG Update/Door prizes

Brenda Carlton, Consultant

11:00 – 12:00 

Breakout Sessions

 

 

1.  Installating and Configuring Oracle 9i iAS

David Rincon, DBA Group

Ajay Rajani, Answerthink

2. Business Intelligence

Kevin Bromberg, Oracle

3.  Volunteers Needed

 

4.

 

 

Volunteers are needed as speakers and to facilitate future breakout sessions.  Please send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com and volunteer in your area of expertise.

 

 

San Diego OAUG Conference – November 27 - 30

For more information and to submit your registration visit www.oaug.org.

 

Toronto Conference – Deadline for Papers

October 29 is the deadline to submit a paper for Spring Toronto conference.

Approved papers will receive free conference registration.  Applicants will be notified December 3.

See http://oaug.org/spring2002/callpap_app.html to submit your application.

 

SEOUC Conference

Abstracts for papers are due November 5.  Conference is February 21-22 in Charlotte, NC.  See www.seouc.org

 

 

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 so you will still 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.

 

Web Site

www.atloaug.org will be down for maintenance for a partial day later this month.  Visit our website and see the new format.  Looks great!  Thanks to the DBA Group for hosting our web site.

 

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:

subscribe-oaugnet@lists.ksinet.com

If you have any questions about this new service, please visit OAUG’s Web site for full details:

http://www.oaug.org/public/oaugnet.html

 

Volunteers Needed   

Volunteers needed to present a topic, facilitate a breakout session, serve on a panel or present their company as the Member Spotlight Company.  Send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.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.

 

Thanks!

Thanks to BellSouth for providing us with the conference space, refreshments and audiovisual equipment.  Thanks also go to BOSS Corp, Protégé Services, MetricStream and OAUG for providing door prizes. 

 

 58 attendees were present.  Companies represented are as follows:

Users:

Georgia Lottery, Merial, Lucent, NDC Health, Tensar, BellSouth, Mirant, Atlanta Housing Authority, GE Power, Third Currency, Advanced Glassfiber Yarns, Galaxy Engineering, Altec, Six Continents Hotels, CRI, MediaOcean, Lucent

 

Consultants:

e.Solutions, Application Technology Services, DBA Group, Answerthink, SageWise Group, Absolute Integrity, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Diversified, Arthur Andersen, ewaken, Colibri, BOSS,  e.Effective Computer Services, CSF, Stonebridge, Systemhouse, Urban, Omni, Ciber, Protege

 

Vendors

Tickmark, Oracle, MetricStream, Precise, Optio