Wednesday, October 05, 2005
October meeting update!!
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.
