Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: Friday, May 18, 2001

Time Called: 8:30 a.m.

Location: ClearOrbit at Renaissance Hotel

I. Presentation

Member Spotlight – Equifax

Lourdes Mallo Godfrey

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2001index.html

II. Presentation

Descriptive Flexfields

Jay Oliphant, BOSS Corp

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2001index.html

III. Breakout Sessions

Descriptive Flexfields

Jay Oliphant, BOSS Corp

Bar-Coding

Michael Rogers, J.M. Huber

GL – Eliminations & Intercompany

George Wilson, BOSS Corp

Technical: Database Purge, Archive and Re-building Issues

Rich Butterfield, OuterBay Technologies

IV. Networking Game – Lori Hudson, GE Power

V. Vendor Spotlight – Quest Software, Kevin Halter, www.quest.com

VI. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

Next Meeting – June 15

Host: GE Energy Services

Location: Wildwood Office Park, 4200 Wildwood Parkway (near I-75N and 285)

Reservations: Carol Willever, 770-859-6439, carol.willever@ps.ge.com

June 15 Agenda

Vendor Spotlight Crystallize - Bill Carver

Presentation #1

Release 11i Upgrades Applied Digital

Presentation #2

Release 11i Upgrade Panel Toni Cobb – NDC Health

Erik Shin – Sagewise Group

Eric Stouffer – System Architechs

Nick Phillips – Reilly & Associates

Upendra Kulkarni - PWC

Applied Digital

Breakout Sessions

R11i Technical – 1.Hardware Configuration Capacity Planning

2. Patching, Bugs, Challenges

3. Customizations

Applied Digital

Rollup Groups, Parents and Summary Accounts

Jay Oliphant - BOSS Corp

Release 11i – Functional

Applied Digital

Release 11i – Process Manufacturing

Dan Reilly & Nick Phillips - Reilly & Associates

Volunteers are needed to facilitate future breakout sessions. Please send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com and volunteer in your area of expertise.

 

San Diego OAUG Conference – September 19 - 23

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Volunteers Needed

Volunteers needed to present a topic, facilitate a breakout session, serve on a panel or present their company as the Member Spotlight Company. Send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com.

Liaison Contact Person Needed from each Member Company

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Thanks!

Thanks to ClearOrbit for providing us with the conference space, refreshments, audiovisual equipment and door prizes. Thanks also go to GE Capital and Mind Share Systems for providing door prizes.

51 attendees were present. Companies represented are as follows:

Users:

GE Power, GE Capital, GE Card Services, Georgia Lottery, CRI, Motorola, WC Bradley, NDC Health, MBIA-Panasonic, Merial, McKee Foods, JM Huber, Char-Broil, Equifax,

Consultants:

e.Solutions, System Architechs, Application Technology Services, DBA Group, AnswerThink, SageWise Group, BOSS, Protégé, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, CSC, DACG, TUSC, Cumberland Technologies

Vendors

OptioSoftware, MetricStream, OuterBay, ClearOrbit, MindShare,