Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: Friday, November 17, 2000

Time Called: 9:30 a.m.

Location: DBA Group

I. Presentation

Member Spotlight – National Data Corp

Eric Stouffer

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2000index.html

II. Presentation

R11i Functionality

OM Craig Hamilton, Oracle

PO Jay Oliphant & Satya Abbaraju, BOSS Corp

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2000index.html

III. Breakout Sessions

1) Order Management

Craig

2) Purchasing

Jay & Satya

3) Security Issues on R11i

Erik Shin, Sage Group

  1. Vendor Spotlight – Optio Software – www.optiosoftware.com

During our networking time (9:00 – 9:30) one vendor is invited to display and demo their product offering.

V. General Business - Brenda Carlton, e.Solutions Consulting

Next Meeting – January 19

Host: Deloitte Consulting

Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Atlanta – 265 Peachtree Avenue North East. Phone 404-577-1234

Reservations: Jeremy Gant at jgant@dc.com or 404-631-3027

January 19 Agenda

Vendor Spotlight Tickmark Solutions – Frank Odlum

Multi-Org Revisited in 11.5 Manoj Salonki, Gupta Consulting

Release 11i Functionality

i-Store and

Product Configurator Peter Schwoerer, Oracle

Breakout Sessions

i-Store, Configurator

Peter

Sales Force Automation

Wade Lewis, Aris Corp

Working with OracleSupport

Anthony Kamburis, Oracle

Technical: Tuning When You Can’t Touch the Code

Michael Ault, DBA Group (and author of several books)

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

OAUG in Atlanta April 24-28

Conference will be held in our hometown! Deadline for submitting papers is Dec. 15. Brenda Carlton is on the Conference Committee and needs your ideas on how we can assist with hosting. Please send ideas to bcarlton@sprynet.com.

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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

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.

Thanks!

Thanks to DBA Group for providing us with the conference space, refreshments and audiovisual equipment. Thanks also go to DBA Group, OAUG and KPMG for providing door prizes. DBA Group provided a free registration ($950 value) to their World Tour, two-day conference.

75 attendees were present. Companies represented are as follows:

Users:

National Data Corp, Schweitzer-Mauduit, GE Energy, NCR, J.M. Huber, Georgia Lottery, MedAssets, Southland Life, Media Ocean, CRI, UPS Logistics, WebMD, McKee Foods, BellSouth, Boral Bricks,

Consultants:

e.Solutions, Application Technology Services, The DBA Group, Cumberland Tech, Sapient, AnswerThink, Sage Group, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Compsee, Everest, BOSS, Gupta

Vendors

OptioSoftware, Oracle, Mind Share, Decision Point