Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: January 15, 1999

Submitted by: Brenda Carlton, KPMG

Time Called: 9:30 a.m.

Location: Hilton Hotel, hosted by Marc Kilburn, Deloitte-Touche

I.Presentations:  “Implementing Oracle Financials Under Multi-Org”
   Allison Fisher & Laura DeSantis, PricewaterhouseCoopers

II. Presentation: Member Spotlight: NCR – Peachtree City Plant
   Nancy Ballard, Earl Gabbard, Lisa Grace,Bobbie Davis, Fred Payne

III. Presentation: “Leveraging Oracle Support”
   Mahmoud Baagil, Deloitte-Touche

IV. General Business - Brenda Carlton, KPMG
Brenda presented a video screencam of the “members only” section of www.oaug.org and the benefits available to OAUG members.  A new feature is a database of the papers presented at the ’96 – ’98 conferences.   A search engine is available by topic, author, company, module, etc.  Other features are R11 updates and statements of direction, OAUG member listings (with search engine), conference attendee listings, enhancement results,  oraaps listings (with search engine), the Forum and Insight publications, and much, much more.

Jim Crum, editor of the Atl-OAUG newsletter, spoke about his latest project.  Jim and associates are writing a book on the Complete Reference Manual of Implementing Oracle.  Projected publication date is spring 2000.

Volunteers Needed  to speak in ’99.
Send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com.  Member spotlight companies are also needed for each meeting.

Liaison Contact Person needed at each ATL-OAUG 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.

SEOUC – Southeast Oracle Users Conference – Feb 18-19
The 1999 Southeast Oracle Users Conference will be Feb 18-19 in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Airport Sheraton.  There are three tracks for tools and two tracks for applications (~50 presentations).
Cost: $125 ($225 after Feb 1st )
Register at www.seouc.org

Spring OAUG Conference
Make your reservations now for the OAUG conference in San Diego April 18-22.  A conference confirmation number is required in order to book a hotel at the OAUG discounted rate.  See www.oaug.org for details.

Thanks!
Thanks to Deloitte-Touche for providing us with the conference space and refreshments.

75 attendees were present. Our group is growing every month.  Some termed it a “mini-conference”.  Companies represented are as follows:
Users Consultants Vendors
Tensar Corporation KPMG Peat Marwick Dataline Systems
Caribiner Audio Visual Answerthink St. Paul Software
ChoicePoint Deloitte & Touche Optio Software
Flexible Products Sage Group
Lithonia Lighting BOSS Corp  
KEMET Electronics Hemispheres
NCR Tactics
Southern Company Database Consultants
Oasis Consulting
Oracle
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Procon
Phoenix Solutions
Noblestar


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http://www.atloaug.org