Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, March 19, 2004

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               Outerbay Technologies

Location:         Villa Christina, Dunwoody

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

Outerbay Technologies – Jim Walker, jwalker@outerbay.com

 

II. Presentation 

Member Spotlight – CTI Molecular Imaging, Walter Cromer

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2004index.html

 

III. Presentation

To Patch or Not to Patch ... It's Not a DBA Question, Alicia Hoekstra and John Stouffer-  Solution Beacon

jstouffer@solutionbeacon.com & ahoekstra@solutionbeacon.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2004index.html

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

1.  Technical: Care and Feeding of 11i - John Stouffer, Solution Beacon,         jstouffer@solutionbeacon.com

2.  Oracle Collections Module - Chris Thornhill, Oracle, Chris.thornhill@oracle.com

3.  Useful Tricks for Oracle Workflow - Robert Rentz, SSI Worldwide, robert.rentz@us.ssiworldwide.com

4.  Oracle Projects Family Pack M (Applications Release 11.5.11) and Beyond - Julian Kozicki, Great Projects, jpkozicki@gr8projects.com

 

Selected breakout presentations can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2004index.html

 

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

Next Meeting – May 21, 2004

Host:   Computer Associates

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

Reservations: Keli McPherson, keli.mcpherson@ca.com, 770-916-3682

 

May 21 PRESENTATIONS

  1. Member Spotlight: McKee Foods
  2. Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Module
  3. Technical: Physical/Logical Standby Databases with 11i  Finapps
  4. Labor Costing in Projects
  5. GL Intercompany
  6. Sarbannes-Oxley Discussion

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the May newsletter is April 30.  Please email your contributions to our editors.

Functional - satyakanth@bosscorporation.com

Technical - eshin@sagewisegroup.com  

Previous issues can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/newsletters/

 

Volunteers Needed

Speakers & breakout session facilitators for Aug, Oct & Nov.

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Upcoming Conferences

Oracle Applications Technology Symposium (OATS)
May 2004,
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

 

Oracle Users Forum - Applications 
June 2004,
Paris, France

 

OAUG Connection Point 2004 - The Point of Contact
September 12 - 15, 2004, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel Orlando, Florida, USA

Deadline is May 29 to submit an abstract for paper presentation.

 

Four New Affiliated SIGs

Aerospace & Defense SIG – Liz Jones, Coordinator

Collaboration Suite SIG – Basheer Khan, Coordinator

Contracts SIG – Mohan Dutt, Coordinator

Financial Services SIG – Subhojit Roye, Coordinator

 

Local Technical User Group

Conference on March 22 – 23. Cost is $175.

Monthly Meetings are in Dunwoody on the 2nd Thursday, 7:00 – 8:30. See www.gouser.org.

 

VII. Thanks!

Thanks to Outerbay Technologies for providing us with conference space, breakfast, door prizes and audiovisual equipment.

Thanks to Outerbay Technologies, OAUG and Logical Apps for providing door prizes.

 

70 attendees were present.  Companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

Mirant, Motorola, McKee Foods, Mactec Engineering, US Dept of Energy, ChoicePoint, LawGibb, CTI Molecular Imaging, Boral Bricks, AMVESCAP,

 

Consultants:

Protégé, Baytree, Titan, CSC, BOSS Corp, Harvest, Noble & Assoc, DBA Group, Hitachi, Solution Beacon, SSI, Signum, DTI, Cabrina, Mentora,

 

Vendors

Outerbay Technologies , Logical Apps, 170 Systems, Unitask, Oracle, Applimation, AppWorx