Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: March 19, 1999

Submitted by: Brenda Carlton, KPMG

Time Called: 9:30 a.m.

Location: Oracle Offices, hosted by D'Lesa Medlin, St Paul Software

I.Presentations:  “Oracle's Front Office Applications”
   Michelle Rubio, Oracle Corp

II. Presentation: "Enforcing and Resolving Data Integrity in an Management Architecture"
  Mark Poling, AnswerThink Consulting

III. Presentation: “Upgrading the Oracle Applications: Going Beyond the Technical Upgrade”
   Robert Cooney, KPMG Consulting

IV. General Business - Brenda Carlton, KPMG
Brenda gave an update of OAUG activities including the SEOUC conference held last month and the upcoming OAUG conference in San Diego next month. The deadline for the "call for papers" for the Sept Orlando conference is ~3 weeks after the San Diego conference. Brenda also presented a video screencam of how to log into the "members only" section of www.oaug.org and perform a search on papers presented at the '96 - '98 conferences. A search engine is available by topic, author, company, module, etc.

Panel members are needed for the ED/EDI panel at the May 21 meeting. Send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com to volunteer.

Next Meeting
May 21 - BellSouth, Campanille Building - Midtown
Reservations: poll.kriss@bsc.bellsouth.net
Agenda:

  1. Member Spotlight Company - to be announced
  2. "Expense Reporting EFT -Easy as ABC" - Allen Webb, The Kaylor Group
  3. "Getting the Most From Your Oracle Applications by Utilizing EC / EDI" - Gina Sandon, St. Paul Software & User panel (panel members needed)
1999 Meetings: Jan 15, Mar 19, May 21, Jun 18, Aug 20, Oct 15, Nov 19

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.

Spring OAUG Conference OAUG conference is in San Diego April 18-22. See www.oaug.org for details. The call for papers for the fall conference in Orlando (Sept 26-30) will be approximately three weeks after the San Diego conference. A fifty word paragraph is required and can be submitted via the web page.

Thanks! Thanks to St. Paul Software for providing us with the conference space, refreshments and doorprizes. 50 attendees were present. Companies represented are as follows.
Users Consultants Vendors
Caribiner Audio Visual KPMG Peat Marwick St. Paul Software
ChoicePoint Answerthink Indus Int'l
Flexible Products BOSS Corp
NCR Hemispheres
Schweitzer-Mauduit BOSS Corp  
Tensar Hemispheres
BellSouth Tactics
Motorola Database Consultants
Oasis Consulting
Oracle
Phoenix Solutions
Noblestar
IMI Systems
Source Tec Int'l
Milestone Services

See web page for updates, agendas, directions, minutes, list server, etc.

http://www.atloaug.org