Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, November 15, 2002

 

Time Called:             8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               GE Power Systems

Location:              GE Power Systems facility, Marietta

 

I. Presentation 

Member Spotlight: RMC Industries - iProcurement

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2002index.html

 

II. Presentation

New Features: 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7

Members: PA, FA – Julian Kozicki, Consultant; GL, AP – Steve Bradley, Oasis; PO –Derk Weinheimer, Deloitte; INV – Brian Lueke, Consultant

 

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2002index.html

 

III. Breakout Sessions

a. Contracts & Advanced Pricing - Carol Praplaski, National Data Corp &

Jolene Keck, Answerthink

b. Advanced: Flexfield Validation Concepts and Designs - Marty Schlafer, Answerthink

c. iProcurement & iSupplier - Linda Nagelson, Oracle

d. Chat with the Experts - Julian Kozicki, Jay Oliphant, Steve Bradley, Derk Weinheimer, Brian Lueke – Consultants

 

IV. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

Next Meeting – January 17

Host:               BMC Software

Location:            5909 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, NE, Suite 100, Atlanta

Reservations:  Rita_Urquhart@bmc.com, 800-841-2031

 

January 17 Agenda

MAIN PRESENTATIONS     

  1. Member Spotlight: Volunteer Needed
  2. Manufacturing - Discrete, OPM or Mixed? - Art Karalexis, SBI and Company

 

BREAKOUT SESSIONS     

  1. Technical: High Availability for Oracle e-Business Suite - John Vaughan, DataRoad
  2. Volunteer Needed
  3. Volunteer Needed
  4. Volunteer Needed

 

Newsletter

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The deadline for getting articles into the January newsletter is December 30.  Please email your contributions to our new editors.

Technical - eshin@sagewisegroup.com      

Functional - satyakanth@bosscorporation.com

The newsletter can be viewed in PDF format at http://www.atloaug.org/newsletters/ATLOAUGNews1102.pdf

 

Volunteers Needed

January 17 – speaker & breakout session facilitators.

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

 

e-Learning Seminars from OAUG

OAUG is working hard to provide its members and Oracle Applications users worldwide with an alternative means of education opportunities apart from the annual conferences held in North America, Europe, and Asia pacific. Beginning October 2002, OAUG will be offering e-Learning seminars presented from industry experts and trainers.

Review the schedule of OAUG e-Learning seminars at http://www.oaug.org/Education/e-learning.html. Space is limited so register now.

 

San Diego OAUG Conference – Sept 14 - 17

For more information and to register, visit www.oaug.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 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

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

 

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 GE Power Systems for providing us with conference space, refreshments and audiovisual equipment. Thanks also go to Noetix, BOSS Corp, Titan Technologies and Nancy Hill for providing door prizes. 

 

105 attendees were present.  Companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

McKee Foods, Dept of Energy, GE Power Systems, WC Bradley, Char-broil, RMC, Ga Lottery, MBIA, Media Ocean, New York City Housing Authority, Atlanta Housing Authority, Suntory, NDC Health

 

Consultants:

DBA Group, Titan, EDS, SageWise, Mentora, BOSS, Synergy America, iSAM, Bearing Point, Lorient, Motion, Deloitte, Answerthink, SBI, IBM

 

Vendors

Oracle, Noetix, Formscape, Applimation