Ohio Regional User Group

PeopleSoft Ohio Regional Users Group
Meeting Agenda: October 20, 2005
Buckeye Hall of Fame Café, 1421Olentangy River Rd., Columbus OH 43223


8:00 8:30 Registration
8:30 9:00 Continental Breakfast & Sponsor Preview
9:00 9:30 Opening Session
• Welcome – Robert Sanders
• Introduction of Sponsors – Tim Johnson
• Ohio RUG Board recommendations regarding alignment of User Group
o Next meeting date and prepare for elections
9:30 10:00 Full Audience Session: Oracle Update (Frank Guarasci) - Open World and Key Announcements (LifeTime Support, Siebel, Glog, etc…)
10:00 10:10 Break
10:10 10:55 Full Audience Session: Newmerix Agenda Attached Below (Patrick Holt Bio Attached Below) – Testing Your PeopleSoft 8.8/8.9 Upgrade

10:55 12:00 Information Swaps
• HR
• Tools
• Financials
• EnterpriseOne
• World
12:00 1:00 Lunch
1:00 2:00 Breakout Session 1:
• HR - INRANGE (Chris Chastain Bio Attached Below)- Compensating the Workforce
• Tools - Oracle (Jim Ellis Bio Attached Below - Manager - Applied Technology, North Central Area) - PeopleSoft Security - Release 8 and Beyond - This session introduces all the new PeopleSoft 8 security features. There are many security features added in release 8, and many of them can ease and facilitate the migration from pre-PeopleSoft 8 releases.
• Financials/Enterprise and Enterprise One – Oracle/PeopleSoft (Rhonda Nottelmann Bio Attached Below – Sales Consultant) Sarbanes Oxley - Internal Controls Enforcer
• World – Oracle (Barbara Canham Bio Attached Below - Product Manager , JD Edwards World) – The Future of World; Our Roadmap to Yours
2:00 2:15 Break
2:15 3:15 Breakout Session 2:
• HR – Oracle (Jeff Earnst - Principal HCM Consultant) - HCM - Enterprise Learning Management 8.8
• Tools - Oracle (Shawn Zerby – Oracle Senior Technical Sales Specialist) - PeopleTools update - level set on recent releases 8.44 & 8.45, What's new in PeopleTools 8.46, Portal 8.9 (Collaboration, Pagelet creation, Standards,Content Management)
• Financials – TBD
• Enterprise One – Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc (Diane Kelly – Director of IS/IT Bio Attached Below) – Customer Case Study – “Our experiences over the past two years with moving from World to Xe then to E1 8.11”
3:15 4:00 Conclusion – Full Audience Session
• Vendor door prizes drawings
4:00 5:00 Executive Board Meeting
Updates to this document will be posted on Customer Connection at: Ohio RUG Home Page on Customer Connection and also at http://ohiorug.blogspot.com/. Sessions are subject to last minute changes due to presenter conflicts.



Newmerix Agenda - Radical navigation changes in PeopleSoft 8.8 and 8.9 mean your team will have to re-create all test scripts, costing you tens of thousands of dollars to check, update, document, run, and report on tests. As you move to PeopleSoft 9 and Fusion, expect at least two more large-scale testing cycles. Now is the time to implement as systematic testing approach, along with automation, to reduce the ongoing costs of testing PeopleSoft.

In this session, we’ll show you how to put in place a structured, systematic approach to PeopleSoft testing and create re-usable test scripts for PeopleSoft 8.8, 8.9 and even 9.

Agenda:

We will cover the following topics:

What to Test in PeopleSoft 8.8/8.9
Systematic Testing Approach for 8.8/8.9
Document
Modularize
Parameterize
Establish Expected Results
Implement Change Management Process
Analyzing and Prioritizing your Existing Test Suite for Re-work
Specialized Requirements for Automating PeopleSoft Tests
Creating Re-usable Test Scripts for 8.8, 8.9, and 9.0

Newmerix Speaker - Patrick Holt BIO - Testing Your PeopleSoft 8.8/8.9 Upgrade: Patrick Holt is a consultant in our Professional Services group. He has more than 6 years of experience developing customized functional and load testing methodologies and implementing testing tools to assist in testing both custom and packaged applications.

INRANGE Speaker - Chris Chastain BIO - Compensating the Workforce: Chris is a Certified Consultant, with over seven years of product experience, spanning all areas of the HRMS, Manager/Employee Self-Service Applications, Enterprise Learning Management, and the EPM product suite. He has served as both a team lead and as the Project Manager on a number of full-lifecycle implementations, as well as serving the needs of clients as a Product Expert. In the role of Product Expert he has assisted clients in package selection, deployment strategy/planning, and conducted optimization reviews, identifying opportunities to leverage existing technologies and increase ROI. Prior to beginning his PeopleSoft consulting career, Chris worked as a Human Resource Manager and Senior Compensation Analyst. He is both a Certified Human Resource (PHR) and Compensation Professional (CCP). Chris is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a degree in Personnel and Industrial Relations.

Oracle Speaker Jim Ellis BIO - Manager - Applied Technology, North Central Area) - PeopleSoft Security - Release 8 and Beyond : Jim Ellis is the manager for the Applied Technology team for the North Central Area. This includes a team of 7 specialists providing technology support for the PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle E-Business suite product lines. Jim has been working in applications software for 25 years. Prior to the Oracle acquisition Jim spent 8 years at PeopleSoft in a similar role and 10 years at Dun & Bradstreet Software where he did both pre and post sales consulting work.

Oracle Speaker Rhonda Nottelmann BIO - Sales Consultant - Sarbanes Oxley - Internal Controls Enforcer: Rhonda has 10 years continuous software service with JDE, PSFT, and Oracle. She has strong implementation and training experience at JDE. She has also worked in industry in accounting for about 10 years. Her industry experience includes telecom, manufacturing, and retail. Rhonda also has several hobbies including golf, gardening and fish ponds.

Oracle Speaker Barbara Canham BIO - Product Manager , JD Edwards World - The Future of World; Our Roadmap to Yours: Barbara Canham is a Product Manager on the JD Edwards World Strategy team with emphasis on services and customer solutions. Barb joined JD Edwards/Oracle in 1995 beginning her career in Customer Support as a Technical Analyst, moving on to a Manager of the Technical team and Senior Manager of the JD Edwards World Customer Support team. She has worked with the JD Edwards World product for 10 years.

Barb brings over 25 years of experience in the areas of customer support and technology. From 1981-1994, she was a main contributor in a startup company installing, supporting, training end users on a UNIX based dental management system.

Barb has a BS in Sociology with a minor in Psychology from Ohio University. She is a Certified Support Manager.

Abstract for Barbara Canham - The Future of World; Our Roadmap to Yours: JDEdwards World is alive and well and thriving! This session focuses on the value of your investment in World. We will discuss the latest developments with the World roadmap and product direction, including highlights of our next release of World, A9.1. Come hear about ways you can get better information with regard to what's going on and work with us on exciting new initiatives. We will talk about World's Fusion initiatives and activities with IBM.

Customer Case Study – Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc - Diane Kelly BIO – Director of IS/IT : Diane is the Director of IS/IT at Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc. Harlan is the world’s largest privately owned producer of laboratory animals with twenty-three operations in the United States and nineteen European facilities. Harlan distributes its products and services in over thirty countries. Diane and her staff handle all data and voice for Harlan worldwide out of the Harlan Corporate headquarters located in Indianapolis, IN. Harlan has been a JDE World customer since 1993. They have started their migration project to go from A7.3 to E1 8.11. Diane is the President of the World Migration SIG. She is a board member for Oracle’s Migration/Integration User Group. She is also the President of Harlan Leadership Group. She has a Masters in Project Management and degrees in Business Administration and Computer Technology from Purdue University. She is eager to talk to any customer who wants information about migration or who has started their migration project. dkelly@harlan.com

It has been a while but we have nearly finalized our agenda for the October 20th meeting. Mark your calendars and check back to get the final agenda...see you there.


PeopleSoft Ohio Regional Users Group
Meeting Agenda: October 20, 2005
Buckeye Hall of Fame Café, 1421Olentangy River Rd., Columbus OH 43223

8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast & Sponsor Preview
9:00 - 9:30 Opening Session
Welcome – Robert Sanders
Introduction of Sponsors – Tim Johnson
Ohio RUG Board recommendations regarding alignment
9:30 - 10:00 Full Audience Session: Oracle Update (Frank Guarasci) - Open World and Key Announcements (LifeTime Support, Siebel, GLog)
10:00 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 10:55 Full Audience Session: Newmerix Agenda Attached Below (Michael Parker) – Testing Your PeopleSoft 8.8/8.9 Upgrade (Current customer base includes companies such as…) 10:55 - 12:00 Information Swaps
HR
Tools
Financials
EnterpriseOne
World
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00Breakout Session 1:
HR - INRANGE (Chris Chastain)- Compensating the Workforce
Tools - Oracle (Jim Ellis Bio Attached Below - Manager - Applied Technology, North Central Area) - PeopleSoft Security - Release 8 and Beyond - This session introduces all the new PeopleSoft 8 security features. There are many security features added in release 8, and many of them can ease and facilitate the migration from pre-PeopleSoft 8 releases.
Financials/Enterprise and Enterprise One – Oracle/PeopleSoft (Rhonda Nottelmann – Sales Consultant) Sarbanes Oxley - Internal Controls Enforcer
World -
2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 3:15 Breakout Session 2:
HR – Oracle (Jeff Earnst - Principal HCM Consultant) - HCM - Enterprise Learning Management 8.8
Tools - Oracle (Shawn Zerby – Oracle Senior Technical Sales Specialist) - PeopleTools update - level set on recent releases 8.44 & 8.45, What's new in PeopleTools 8.46, Portal 8.9 (Collaboration, Pagelet creation, Standards,Content Management)
Financials -
Enterprise One -
3:15 - 4:00 Conclusion – Full Audience Session
Vendor Door Prize Drawings...
4:00 - 5:00 Executive Board Meeting

Jim Ellis BIO - Jim Ellis is the manager for the Applied Technology team for the North Central Area. This includes a team of 7 specialists providing technology support for the PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle E-Business suite product lines. Jim has been working in applications software for 25 years. Prior to the Oracle acquisition Jim spent 8 years at PeopleSoft in a similar role and 10 years at Dun & Bradstreet Software where he did both pre and post sales consulting work.

Newmerix Agenda - Radical navigation changes in PeopleSoft 8.8 and 8.9 mean your team will have to re-create all test scripts, costing you tens of thousands of dollars to check, update, document, run, and report on tests. As you move to PeopleSoft 9 and Fusion, expect at least two more large-scale testing cycles. Now is the time to implement as systematic testing approach, along with automation, to reduce the ongoing costs of testing PeopleSoft.

In this session, we’ll show you how to put in place a structured, systematic approach to PeopleSoft testing and create re-usable test scripts for PeopleSoft 8.8, 8.9 and even 9.

Agenda:

We will cover the following topics:

What to Test in PeopleSoft 8.8/8.9
Systematic Testing Approach for 8.8/8.9
Document
Modularize
Parameterize
Establish Expected Results
Implement Change Management Process
Analyzing and Prioritizing your Existing Test Suite for Re-work
Specialized Requirements for Automating PeopleSoft Tests
Creating Re-usable Test Scripts for 8.8, 8.9, and 9.0


Speaker:

Michael Parker, Managing Director of Professional Services for Newmerix, is an 8-year veteran of PeopleSoft with experience in hundreds of implementations and upgrades. He and his team are not only experts in PeopleSoft, they are experts in testing PeopleSoft and have developed customized methodologies and tools to assist PeopleSoft customers.