Ohio Regional User Group

Ohio RUG Meeting - Sunday, November 11, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
San Francisco, California - Moscone West, Room 2020

Come join Dan Crawford, representing our Ohio RUG Board, at Oracle Open World. Spend just a few minutes learning more about the Ohio PeopleSoft RUG and what we have to offer you as a customer. Start out your week with us learning some of the following information:

• What is the Ohio PeopleSoft RUG?
• How can we help you?
• What can you expect at one of our meetings?
• Quest Midwest - what is it...why should I attend?
  
• PeopleSoft at Oracle Open World
• Resources!

See you there!

The Ohio PeopleSoft Ohio RUG Meeting scheduled for October 18th has been cancelled!!

Well...I hate to say it but we have just not had much luck with registrations for our October 18th Ohio PeopleSoft RUG Meeting. In order to be fair to our vendor/sponsors and avoid additional costs, that we cannot afford, we are cancelling our meeting. We realize there are a great many factors that play into why or why not folks can attend our meetings and there really is no one thing that we can point to but we will not give up. Spring should be another great meeting and agenda and we will start working on ways to build that up for all of you. Stay tuned for our 2008 meeting dates to come soon.

If you have already sent your payment in to us we will work hard over the next few weeks to get those back out to you. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and if you have any questions at all please contact either, myself Tim Johnson or Sara Forshey, at tjjohnson1@herffjones.com or forshey.11@osu.edu.

Have a good holiday season. Make sure you check back for our future meeting dates which I hope to have posted this week.

Thanks again and take care.

The Ohio PeopleSoft Ohio RUG Board

8:00	9:00	Registration: Continental Breakfast & Sponsor Preview
9:00	9:30	Opening Session: Welcome From The Board Quest Events Updates – Quest Midwest 2007 and 2008, Collaborate 2008, Open World 2008 Meeting Dates Elections next year…several board openings to choose from Introduction of Sponsors
9:15	9:45	Full Audience Session:Oracle Update - Eric Roverud
9:45	10:00	Break:
10:00	10:50	Full Audience Session: Terry Wiegmann, CSQE, Lead Business Application Analyst with Sterling Commerce - "Lewis and Clark - an Integrated Enterprise"
10:50	11:00	Break:
11:00	12:00	Information Swaps: Round Table Session Breakouts
		Enterprise HCM	Enterprise Financials	Enterprise Tools	Enterprise Payroll
12:00	1:00	Lunch:
1:00	2:00	Vendor/Customer Breakout Sessions:
		Enterprise HCM Richard George - CedarCrestone - "HCM Management Analytics - Why, What, How" ______________________ This presentation will cover the state of technologies in use today that deliver metrics/analytics and what the future holds with PeopleSoft 9.0. In addition, it will cover the human capital and other organizational metrics in use by early adopters. We will show their approach to showing value to the organization for implementing analytics and their strategy for a successful deployment.	Enterprise Financials Dale Loyd - 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 INRANGE Consulting - "BI options available through Oracle" ______________________ Join INRANGE as we examine the powerful array of BI tool offerings from Oracle. This session will be a high level overview of the various product offerings, geared toward helping you navigate the changing landscape of Business Intelligence. We will discuss the capabilities of Discover, BI Publisher, and the all new ORACLE BI ENTERPRISE EDITION(OBIEE).	Vendor HP "Continuous Data Protection for your PeopleSoft ERP Environment" ______________________ Leading companies are deploying HP’s Continuous Information Capture (CIC) software solution, part of the HP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solution portfolio to address two basic yet extremely challenging requirements: data protection/recovery and secondary data management.
2:15	2:45	Wrap-up including Vendor door prizes drawings
3:00	4:00	Executive Board Meeting

It’s that time again and we are looking forward to another great meeting. I have listed a few of our sessions below and encourage you to take a look and share with your teams or partner companies:

• Oracle Update - Eric Roverud
  
• Terry Wiegmann, CSQE, Lead Business Application Analyst with Sterling Commerce – “Lewis and Clark – an Integrated Enterprise”
  
• Enterprise HCM - Richard George CedarCrestone - “HCM Management Analytics - Why, What, How”
  
• Enterprise Financials - Dale Loyd, Oracle - “PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses and a taste of BPEL/Fusion technology”
  
• Enterprise PeopleTools - INRANGE Consulting - “BI options available through Oracle”

Below are the links you will need in order to view the agenda and register, establish a free Web Subscription with Quest (if you or your company is not already a Quest Paid Member) or to contact someone if you need help with your user id and password.

In order to register for the Ohio RUG Meeting and if you have previously subscribed to the Quest website or have a Quest Membership, use the link below to register now. If you are not logged in at the time you click the link it will prompt you to login. Once you do so it should direct you to the Ohio RUG homepage where you will find the link to our event. If it does not then just navigate to the Georgraphic User Groups and select Ohio. The Registration button can be found in the center of the page in the Events box:

http://questers.questdirect.org/index.php?module=comm&op=index&gid=158

During the registration process you will have several registration types to choose from. Pick the one that applies to you and click the "Update Price" button to make sure the correct price is shown. If you do not have a discount code, and only Board Members or Customer Presenters or Vendor Sponsors will have one, then you just need to leave that blank.

If you currently do not have either a Free Web Subscription or Quest Membership then you can use the link below to establish that prior to registration:

http://www.questdirect.org/QuestDirect/About/Membership+Levels.htm

uginfo@questdirect.org - If you have any difficulty with registration, finding your userid and password or finding your way around the Quest website.

Any other questions please contact either myself, Tim Johnson or Sara Forshey, at tjjohnson1@herffjones.com or forshey.11@osu.edu.

Thank you to all of our sponsors...without them we would not have a meeting to attend.

CedarCrestone
DriveStream
INRANGE Consulting
HP
MiPro Consulting
Optimum Solutions
TomorrowNow

Thank you,
Your Ohio RUG Board

Oracle is planning on setting up a meeting during Oracle Open World for anyone attending the conference this year who owns, uses, or would like to use any of the PeopleSoft Portal products. This is an informal meeting that gives the customers a fantastic opportunity to meet and chat with the Oracle's PeopleSoft Portal Team.

Location and date time are yet to be worked out. I need to gauge the interest to fix the location.

Oracle Open World is being held in San Fransisco from Nov 11-15th this year.

Thanks,

Pramod Agrawal
Development Manager Enterprise Portal

You can email Tim Johnson at tjjohnson1@herffjones.com if you are interested in attending.