2nd Quarter of 2002 Meeting Minutes

Date:      Wednesday, June 5, 2002
Time:      9:00 am – 3:00 pm   MST
Location: Colorado Springs Utilities

If you missed CUE, here is some of what the attendees enjoyed!

 

 

This was the ROMLUG meeting shortly after Lawson's CUE-2002, and we had 47 in attendance!

Robyn Myers welcomed the group to the 2002 2nd quarter Rocky Mountain Lawson User Group Meeting, which had 47 attendees. 

 

The User Group Committee would like to thank Colorado Springs Utilities for providing the location for the 2nd Quarter User Group Meeting. Dave Amen for providing Food and Coffee in the morning and Digiterra for providing the Lunch.

 

Chris L’Archevesue from Centura Health gave an update on their upgrading to 8.0

Ø      Centura has made technical decisions on what environment they will use with the upgrade.  They will roll out with 7.3.3 environment and upgrade it after the upgrades in place.

Ø      Centura has also purchased a new production box to support their new Lawson application.

Ø      Centura has accomplished the evaluation of all of their modified programs and was able to eliminate 30% of them.

Ø      Centura has issues with the migrations tools from Lawson, rolling out LID to their users and providing a lab that their users can test their reports they created through their third party report-writing tool with the upgraded data.

Ø      Centura next steps will be to do a 2^nd upgrade test, provide 2^nd user training and address security changes.

Centura will continue to present their on-going story about upgrading to 8.0 at subsequent User Group Meetings. We can all improve our own processes and procedures by learning from their story!.

Lunch, provided by Digiterra consisted of an assortment of Deli sandwiches, chips and cookies.

Michelle Tharp of Digiterra presented Payroll & Taxation enhancements for Lawson Version 8.0, BSI Tax Factory.  She talked about the Lawson’s 8.0 requirements with BSI Tax Factory, the new tax engine called Tax Locator, the new tax related forms and programs, the 7.2 to 8.0 upgrade considerations, and an overview of the BSI Factory menu and functionality.

View Michelle’s BSI presentation (1,396K)

Brian Beckman from Digiterra presented on Lawson upgrading and the new concept of Upgrading while active.  He gave an overview on the upgrade process, what you should consider when you upgrade, terminology, project methodology, training, technical overview and requirements, customizations, and security.  He also gave the requirements surrounding the “Upgrade while Active” concept.

View Brian’s 8.0 Upgrade presentation (456K).