Our agenda for the December 13th meeting...

A very big thanks to all of our vendor/sponsors:

• CedarCrestone
• DriveStream
• INRANGE
• PreferredStrategies
• Synch-Solutions
• TomorrowNow

Agenda:

8:00 - 9:00 Registration – Continental Breakfast & Sponsor Preview
9:00 - 9:30 Opening Session

• Welcome – From The Board
• Future Meeting Dates to put on your calendar:
• Spring Meeting = Thursday February 21st
• Summer Meeting = Thursday July 24th
• Autumn Meeting = Thursday November 13th
• Quest Update
• Agenda Updates and/or Changes
• Introduction of Sponsors

9:30 - 10:00 Full Audience Session: Oracle Update – Craig Timmer
10:00 - 10:10 Break – Door Prize Give Away
10:10 - 11:00 Full Audience Session: Terry Wiegmann, CSQE, Lead Business Application Analyst with Sterling Commerce – ”The Lewis & Clark Expedition – An Integrated Enterprise”

11:00 - 11:10 Break – Door Prize Give Away
11:10 - 12:00 Information Swaps – Round Table Session Breakouts
Enterprise HCM Enterprise Financials Enterprise Tools JD Edwards EnterpriseOne / World

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch – Door Prize Give Away
1:00 - 2:00 Vendor/Customer Breakout Sessions:
Enterprise HCM - Richard George CedarCrestone - “Competencies: Key to Talent Management”

This presentation will provide basic tips on how to get started. We’ll look at a real-life example of an organization that realized the value of competency management and has begun to embed this mindset into its HCM functions. They recently implemented a PeopleSoft solution after a long history of paper-based competency management, and we will share with you some of the “lessons learned” about both competencies in general and the ways that a PeopleSoft Enterprise solutions can make competency management a lot less scary and lot more practical.

Enterprise Financials - Deb Brown, Oracle - “PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses and a Taste of BPEL/Fusion Technology”

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses allows your employees to capture and submit time and expenses in online, disconnected, or wireless mode. Leverage best practices in expense management while reducing the administration costs associated with travel.

Enterprise Tools - Jim Ellis, Oracle - “SOA for PeopleSoft Applications”

This session introduces SOA and Web Services and the business value of moving to this architecture stack. In addition, there will be a discussion of web services options currently available in PeopleTools and the integration with BPEL Process Manager, a Fusion Middleware component.

JD Edwards - Adam Crigger, Preferred Strategies – “Monitoring KPI’s Through a Graphical Dashboard”

Improve visibility into data stored in JDE by monitoring KPI’s through a graphical dashboard interface and then drilling down into reports. Leverage reports developed with your free Crystal Reports licenses from Oracle with a graphical front-end.

2:15 - 2:45 Wrap-up including Vendor door prizes drawings
3:00 - 4:00 Executive Board Meeting