Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, May 16, 2008

 

Time Called: 8:30 a.m.

 

Host: CSS International, Inc.

Location: Matrix Resources, South Terrace Building, Dunwoody

www.matrixresources.com

 

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

CSS International, Inc.

Nancy Lochman

Marketing Director

Nancy_Lochman@cssus.com

 

 

II. Presentations

  1. Robin Walker, Caliber Services, LLC - What is Trade Management, and how can I use it, even if I am not a CPG company?, rwalker@caliber-services.com
  2. BIAS Corporation, Ashish Bokil - Business Intelligence for Oracle Application Customers, Ashish.Bokil@biascorp.com

 

 

Presentations: Presentations can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2008index.html

 

 

III. Breakout Sessions

  1. John Faucher, BIAS Corporation - Release 12 Upgrade – Best Practices and Tasks You Can Do Prior To the Upgrade, John.Faucher@biascorp.com
  2. Zanett Commercial Solutions - Oracle Learning Management: Closing the Deal on Competency, shawn_batton@inrangeconsulting.com
  3. David Fenton, BI Strategist, Zensar Technologies – Bridging the Gap between Business and IT - The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing dilemma, v.arora@usa.zensar.com

 

 

IV. General Business Andrew Snyder, NOODLEit, Inc.

 

NEXT MEETING August 15, 2008

Host: ReadSoft North America

Location: Matrix Resources, South Terrace Building, Dunwoody

See Agenda: www.atloaug.org

 

 

Oracle Open World Conference 2008

September 21-25, 2008

Moscone Center

San Francisco, CA

 

 

 

Volunteers Needed

***Speakers & breakout facilitators for 2008. ***

Please send an email to Andrew Snyder at asnyder@NOODLEit.com to volunteer.

 

2008 Meeting Dates

August 15, 2008

October 17, 2008

November 21, 2008

 

 

 

V. Thanks!

Thanks to Matrix Resources for providing us with conference space and audiovisual equipment.

 

Thanks to CSS International, Inc. for providing us with breakfast.

 

Thanks to Caliber Services, LLC for providing us with Braves Tickets as a door prize.

 

Thanks to Byrd Professional Services for providing us with Chili’s Gift Card and golf packets as door prizes.

 

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

 

User Companies Represented:

Boral Industries, Cellular South, McKee Foods, SKC, Inc.

 

 

 

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