Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, August 15, 2003

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               Doc IT

Location:         Amberley Suites Hotel, Norcross

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

Doc IT - Mike Estep, CEO - Mike@docit.com

Optika - Joe Gibbons - jgibbons@optika.com

 

II. Presentation 

Member Spotlight – Boral Bricks – Scott Dines, Boral Bricks

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

 

III. Presentation

Working with Oracle Support - Terra Fox, Oracle terra.fox@oracle.com

Preesentation and Customer Reference Sheet at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2003index.html

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

a.       Implementing iPayment for Credit Card Processing - Samira Chander,  SSI North America - Samira.Chander@us.ssiworldwide.com

b.       Tensar Corp Upgrades & Outsources - Hank Edwards, Tensar Corp

c.       Essential Elements of Project Management - Saurel Quettan & Larry Miller,

Novations Project Management - squettan@novations.com

d.       11i Disaster Recovery for the Applications - Mark Riley, Oracle – mark.riley@oracle.com

 

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

VI. Connection Point Conference – San Diego

Ericka announced the Connection Point conference to be held in San Diego Sept 14 - 17. Attendees can register at www.oaug.org.  Agenda is posted at www.oaug.org/conferences/2003/schedule.shtml

 

Next Meeting – October 17

Host:    Motion International

Location: Westin Peachtree, 210 Peachtree Str NW, Atlanta 30303

Reservations: Libby Vernon, libbyv@motion-international.com, (877) 605-4442

 

August 15 Agenda

MAIN PRESENTATIONS    

            1. Member Spotlight: Motorola - Marge Olmstead, Manisha Patel, Dan Lichter

2. Cycle Counting - The Secret to Inventory Accuracy - Bob Collins, SSI North America

 

 

 

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

a.       Giving Yourself Options - Using Oracle Assemble To Order (ATO) - Bob Collins, SSI North America

b.       Product Life Cycle Mgt -Bill O'Conner, Oracle

c.       Technical - Understanding and Leveraging Oracle 9i Advisories - Azeem Mohamed, Quest Software

d.       Integration of Oracle Project Accounting with Oracle Project Contracts (OKE) - Jeff Hill, Mirant

 

November 21 Agenda

  1. Member Spotlight: NCR Global Project
  2. Member Spotlight: Atlanta Housing Authority
  3. Create Overhead Cost Pools through Oracle MassBudgets and AutoAllocations
  4. Projects Resource Mgt (Contracts, Manager, Collaberation, Intelligence)
  5. Global Implementations
  6. Technical: How to Troubleshoot 11i Issues

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the October newsletter is September 26.  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

Speakers & Breakout session facilitators for 2004

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.

 

VII. Thanks!

Thanks to Doc IT for providing us with conference space, a hot breakfast and audiovisual equipment.

Thanks to Doc IT, BOSS Corporation, OAUG and Nancy Hill for providing door prizes.

 

65 attendees were present.  Companies represented are as follows:

 

Users:

Boral Bricks, Atlanta Housing Authority, Schweitzer-Mauduit, Merial, Mirant, Dept of Energy, Southern Company, Brunswick Boat Group, Salant, Advanced Glassfiber Yarns, Tensar

 

Consultants:

SageWise, Protégé, Novations, Appshop, Colibri, Segue Solutions, Skillsoft, Wave, DBA Group, BOSS Corp

 

Vendors

Doc IT, Optika, Oracle, Record Solutions, Canvas Systems, CorVu, FormScape, Optio Software, AppWorx