Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, June 20, 2003

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               Quest Software

Location:         Villa Christina, Dunwoody

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

Quest Software - David Komoroski

 

II. Presentation 

New Features: Financials 11.5.7/8/9 and Internal Controls Manager

Jeanie Powell, Oracle - jeanie.powell@oracle.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2003index.html

 

III. Presentation

Conduct Electronic Reverse Auctions/RFQ’s With Oracle Sourcing

Bill O'Connor, Oracle - william.oconnor@oracle.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2003index.html

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

a. Taming a 'Killer' Project - Lourdes Godfrey , Project Manager

b. Q&A Follow Up - Supply Chain & Financials - Bill O'Conner, Oracle

c. Technical: Daily, Weekly, Monthly Checkup Lists for Oracle Applications - Erik Shin, SageWise Group

d. eContent (item catalog) Management for iProcurement - Derk Weinheimer, Deloitte Solutions

e. Corporate Governance for Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - Jeanie Powell, Oracle

 

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

VI. OAUG Business – Lynne Weil, GEO/SIG Coordinator

Lynne announced the Connection Point OAUG conference to be held in San Diego Sept 14 - 17. Attendees can register at www.oaug.org.  Lynne also brought many OAUG door prizes and gifts to award at our meetings.

 

Next Meeting – August 15

Host:    Doc IT

Location: Amberley Suites Hotel, 5885 Oakbrook Parkway, Norcross 30093

Reservations: Beth Lovitt, Beth.Lovitt@DocIT, 770-448-4489

 

August 15 Agenda

MAIN PRESENTATIONS    

            1. Member Spotlight: Boral Bricks - Scott Dines

2. Working with Oracle Support, Terra Fox, Oracle

 

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

1. Implementing iPayment for Credit Card Processing        Rob Rentz & Samira Chander, SSI North America

2. Lessons Learned: Tensar Corp Upgrades & Outsources - Hank Edwards, Tensar Corp

3. Essential Elements of Project Management - Saurel Quettan, Novations Project Management

4. (Tenative - Technical: How API's Work - Muzaffer Lakdawala, IBM)   

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the August newsletter is July 25.  Please email your contributions to our editors.

Technical - eshin@sagewisegroup.com  

Functional - satyakanth@bosscorporation.com

The newsletter can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/newsletters/

 

Volunteers Needed

Breakout session facilitators.

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.

 

VI. Thanks!

Thanks to Quest Software for providing us with conference space, refreshments, audiovisual equipment and door prizes.

 

85 attendees were present.  Companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

Boral Bricks, Atlanta Housing Authority, SunTrust, Cingular, Cendian Chemical Logistics, Suntory Water, Lend Lease, WC Bradley, Schweitzer-Mauduit, Choice Point, MedCenter Direct, Merial, NDC Health, NCR, Mirant,

 

Consultants:

SageWise, Protégé, Deloitte & Touche, Oasis, Bearing Point, Signum, ZenSar, Titan, Logical Integrations, Application Technology, Novations, Hitachi, Mentora, Computer Associates,

 

Vendors

Quest Software, Oracle, Applimation