Welcome to San Francisco…

Quick Survey

• How many of you are new to the OraApps?

• How many are on pre-11.5.9, 11.5.9, 11.510?

• How many use MFG, FIN, PROJ, CRM, HR?

• How many of you are new to OAUG, NorCal OAUG?

• How many of you are users, consultants, vendors?

History

• Northern California area, defined as:

North of Fresno to the California/Oregon Border

• Formed in the summer of 2000

• Merged with the Bay Area OAUG January 2001

• Elections were held to elect a new Board of Directors in January

History•OAUG GEO Certificate of Distinction the last three years: 2003, 2004 and 2005

Mission

• A forum for sharing information and experiences on the selection, implementation and effective use of Oracle Applications

• To learn about future directions in the Oracle product line

• To offer resource assistance

Membership• There is no cost to join the Northern California Oracle Applications User Group

• There is no limit to the number of users a company may have in the organization

• We are trying to bring together the end users of the Oracle Applications

• You do not have to be a member of the OAUG to be a member of the Northern California Oracle Applications User Group

•Membership is easy to sign-up for – point to the following web-site - http://www.norcaloaug.org follow the links to the Membership page.

2005-2006 Board of Directors

ChairpersonCarl Harter, Logitech, Inc.

TreasurerCynthia Enderlein, Lucasfilm, Ltd (re-elected)

SecretaryMohan Iyer, FSCP Solutions, Inc. (re-elected)

Communications and WebMaster

John Peters, JRPJR, Inc.

Meeting PlannersTom Connors, Oracle

Ken Krall, Xilinx (newly elected)

Board Member Elections• There are 6 Board Members.

•No more than 3 non-users are allowed on the board.

• All board positions are held for 2 years.

• Board positions are staggered so that 3 positions come up every year.

• Elections are held via email and every NorCal OAUG member gets three votes (one per position).

• Keep an eye open for the signup page on the web site.

• Nomination/Election process will take place in Nov/Dec time frame.

• New board members will take their position the first of Feburary

Web Site

http://www.norcaloaug.org/• We currently have over 240 papers and

presentations (210MB) from Seminars and Training Days

• The web site and email will be our primary methods for communicating with the group

Events - Seminars• Bi-monthly meetings with alternate locations between the

San Francisco, San Jose, and the Tri/Central Valley region

• A single specific topic will be covered

• Panel discussion format

• Cost is free

(we just ask that you please sign up on the web site)

Past Seminar Topics• Application management and Internal Controls (Sarbanes- Oxley and

Oracle)

• Intercompany Gap in Oracle Applications

• Project Accounting

• Workflow and the Oracle Applications

• WMS (warehouse management system)/Shipping/Distribution

• iProcurement in Action

• Myths about global and international implementations

• Human Resources

• Order Management

• Oracle Applications Tips and Tricks

Seminars Calendar

• At this time there are no seminars scheduled

• Future possible topics:

- Migrating to Linux

- Oracle’s Procurement Solutions

• We are looking for topics and locations where we

can hold future seminars.

Events – Training Days• Annual day long meeting with 8 tracks x 6 sessions

(48 sessions in total).

• At least 12 of the sessions are from Oracle Presenters

• There is also a vendor exhibit hall with ~30 exhibitors.

• We have held 4 Training Days (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005).

• Paper archives from past ones are on the web site.

• 2006 Training Day will be January 24th, 2006 in San Ramon, CA

• There is a minimal charge, ~$95 to offset the facility expenses and lunch costs.

Training Day Exhibitors• This really offsets most of the cost of the Training Day

Event, keeping user registration below $100.

• We have ~30 exhibitor booths in the exhibit hall.

• This is a one day conference, setup 6:30am, tear down 4:30pm

• Exhibitor booths are 8x8 and cost $750 for the day

• A very limited number of Presentations are available to exhibitors for an additional fee.

• Once we open up the registration space goes very quickly, so if you are interested please let the NorCal OAUG board know: board@norcaloaug.org

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