2nd Quarter of 2003 Meeting Minutes

Date:      Thursday, June 12, 2003
Time:      9:00 am – 3:30 pm   MST
Location: Thomas Jefferson High School.

The User Group Committee would like to thank:
    Denver Public Schools for the location,
   Paradigm Business Solutions for providing breakfast and prizes, and
   netASPx for providing lunch and prizes

Joyce Fell welcomed the group to the 2nd quarter Rocky Mountain Lawson User Group Meeting, which had 50 attendees.

We want to say a special Thank you to Paradigm, netASPx and Lawson for presenting and being involved with the Rocky Mountain User Group Meeting.

 

Mike Toolan with netASPx presented the Lawson reporting options. He talked about defining reporting requirements, reporting services and the different tools that are available in detail. Some of the tools that are available are: GL/ HR report writer, E-Broadcasting, MS Add Ins, Enterprise Reporting and Analytics.

View Mike Toolan’s presentation here: Reporting Options

 

Mike Justice from Lawson also stepped in to answer questions and clarify several points about Lawson's intentions with the various reporting options.

 

 

Paula Cartwright, Lawson’s Manager of E-Training, updated the User Group members on how to sign up for classes, how to request for additional classes to be made available, and how to find where locations of classes are held. She did this over the phone while we watched a simultaneous presentation over the web!

 

 

Lunch, provided by netASPx, was a wonderful assortment of Deli meats and cheeses, along with chips and cookies.

 

 

 

Ron Wright of netASPx presented Managing Your Lawson System, MSPs and CTPs. He gave an overview of what CTPs and MSPs are, when and how often they are released, the application maintenance, how to back out a CTP or MSP, and how to handle program modifications. They are how patches are handled with the 8.0 applications. This turned into a heated discussion about patch management – we all understand that patches are an unpleasant and required part of the software business, but there is simply NO easy way to handle patches.

View Ron’s presentation here: MSP's and CTP's

Chris Fibbe with Paradigm Business Solutions presented Integration of Activity Management with other Applications. Since we were at a school, Chris became our teacher, and essentially gave us the Activity Management 101 class! He gave an overview of Activity Management, a terminology breakdown, describe the integration between Activity Management and different applications, and other activity functionality.

View Chris’s presentation here: Activity Integration

Chris Fibbe and Chris Macioszek with Paradigm Business Solution ended the User Group meeting with a fun interactive game of Activity Management Jeopardy. We divided the group in half and went to a head to head competition on what we learned on Activity Management. The game started polite but ended with intense competition.

 

During the 2^nd Quarter Rocky Mountain User Group Meeting we had prizes provided by Paradigm and netASPx. A Bronco’s Hat and golf shirt was given away by netASPx. If you stayed to the end of the meeting, Paradigm gave all attendees Paradigm T-shirts. The big prize was a digital camera provided by Paradigm Business Solutions.

We thank everyone for attending this ROMLUG meeting!