ROMLUG Minutes

3nd Quarter of 2003 Meeting Minutes

Date: Friday, September 12, 2003
Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm MST
Location: Colorado Springs Utilities East Service Center.

The User Group Committee would like to thank:
    Colorado Springs Utilities for the location,
   NetASPx for providing breakfast and prizes, and
   Paradigm Business Solutions for providing and prizes

Deidra Walker welcomed the group to the 2nd quarter Rocky Mountain Lawson User Group Meeting, which had 20 attendees.

John Welch from Paradigm did an overview of BSI Tax Factory and Tax Locator. He talked about several items:

	Company set up in Lawson.
	Mapping tax authorities and taxes in BSI.
	How to set up SUI overrides in BSI.
	The importance of testing your BSI set up.
	When and how you should run PR113.
	The importance of location codes with Tax Locator, especially if you are a client in multiple states.

John also suggested using address verification software that will validate address you have on employees in Lawson. The company he recommended to the group was Intelligence Service. Information can be found at: www.correctaddress.com

John Welch’s used two Word documents in his presentation:

	Setting up BSI Tax Factory (221K)
	Lawson Patch for Tax Locator (63K)

Julie Abbaticola from NetASPx presented an overview of 8.0 upgrade planning and lessons learned. She talked about:

	Why you need to upgrade.
	Release requirements.
	Evaluating environment and hardware requirements.
	The upgrade project in 16 steps.
	Upgrade tools.
	Lessons learn from environment, application and data perspectives.

She also gave the group additional consideration with planning an upgrade.

Here is Julie Abbaticola’s Upgrade Planning presentation.

Dave Amen of Amen Consulting, Inc. led the group in an open discussion on how everyone’s upgrade is going.

The group talked about Lid vs. Portal, how stop & start of Lawson changes in 8.0x and Dave shared with the group a Source to Target drawing to help us understand how the upgrade programs work.

The group got a break for lunch, which everyone enjoyed on their own at various restaurants.

MSP's and CTP's were a hot topic at the last ROMLUG meeting, so Ron Wright with NetASPx agreed to continue his presentation: MSPs and CTPs - Part II. He went briefly through his Part I overview of MSPs and CTPs for the ROMLUG members who missed last meeting, then explained how to deal with modifications with MSPs and CTPs.

Ron Wright’s presentation is currently being enhanced - it will be posted here as soon as it is ready!

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

We thank everyone for attending this ROMLUG meeting!