Quest International Users Group

eNews 8.2.06
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Quest Midwest Conference, September 14-15, Rosemont/Chicago, Ill.
Registration is live!
Enjoy a low $225 early-bird rate (available through August 25) for this new, two-day regional conference. Book your sleeping room now with special hotel rates available through Quest's room block.

The Quest Midwest Conference will be jam-packed with more than 60 education sessions from Oracle, vendors and the regional user community. Education tracks are posted for you to review, and session topics will be available on QuestDirect Thursday, August 3. View the tentative agenda now. The conference will also feature an extensive exhibitor showcase and keynote updates from Oracle and Quest, as well as a general session from Microsoft focused on their evolving relationship with Oracle, incorporating the results of the survey mentioned below.

Quest Midwest is brought to you by Quest in partnership with the
Indiana, Ohio and Midwest Regional Users Groups.

Quest wants your feedback: Microsoft and Oracle are working together to ensure great performance for Siebel, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft products running on the Microsoft platform. Microsoft's goal for this work is to help customers protect and optimize their investments in Oracle and Microsoft products. Quest is seeking feedback from users to help in that effort, and your responses are important to focusing Microsoft's work in the coming months. Survey results will be shared in future member updates from the Microsoft Oracle Alliance team. To take the survey, click here.

COLLABORATE 07: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community
Mark your calendar now for these important dates, and begin planning now to attend the biggest customer-led event of the year!
-- April 15-19, 2007: COLLABORATE 07, Las Vegas, Nev., Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center.
-- September 6, 2006: Call for presentations opens online. If you or your company has tips, techniques, processes, or great information to present at COLLABORATE 07, we want you to submit your idea!
-- November 1, 2006: Registration scheduled to begin. All PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users should register through Quest to receive updates on the events and sessions applicable to their needs. Trying to budget for 2007 registration fees? Rates will remain comparable to last year (2006 early bird, full conference registration fees were
$1,195 for members; $1,495 for non-members).

Get ready for Oracle OpenWorld 2006! Join Oracle, Quest and your peers in San Francisco at the Moscone Center October 22-26. 
Once again, Oracle has asked Quest to help provide the valuable education content for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users at the conference. Special thanks to all the users who submitted presentations through Quest.

OpenWorld registration is live, and Early Bird rates end August 18. Reserve your spot now! Watch for more information about Quest's participation and special user group events in San Francisco.

Voice your feedback: Localization survey. Quest is assisting Oracle to assess your satisfaction with the software localizations offered by Oracle today. Localizations are changes or additions to the existing product that are designed to meet a specific country requirement, for example, unique tax regulations. Oracle is also looking for companies in countries that require localizations and will need customers to assist in their development. This survey will be live by the end of this week, and will take less than five minutes to complete. Your input could play an important role in improving applications for your company. For more information, contact viki.young@questdirect.org.

Are you getting all the information you need from Quest? Update your profile online to receive specialized communication and help us get to know our members and subscribers. It's easy! Sign in using your user ID and password, and click on the "Edit Preferences" link that appears beside your name. Click the "Edit Profile" link and update your information, and don't forget to use the "My Subscriptions" link to update your user group subscriptions and your Infocast forum preferences, so you can get instant answers to all your ERP questions -- from users just like yourself!

Have a user tip? It could be worth $500! Quest is looking for all PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users with a story to tell -- your article could end up in the next issue of Q&A Magazine! Submit a user tip or a case study about your company's software experience, and if it's published in Q&A, we'll pay you $500. Email questions to editor@questdirect.org.

Q&A is also searching for companies that:

-- Have been involved in a disaster recovery effort,

-- Have recently outsourced some/all of their IT or are in the process of outsourcing,

-- Or have evaluated outsourcing but decided it wasn't for them.
Please contact editor@questdirect.org if you have a story to tell!

Quest wants to hear from you. How have Quest's services, events or tools benefited you or your company? Let us know at editor@questdirect.org.

Do you need your user ID and password? Email membership@questdirect.org.

Upcoming Quest Webinars -- Check our Webinar page soon for more information.
August 9 - Symtrax
August 16 - Global Software
August 23 - CSS
August 30 - Premier Group
September 6 - Bottomline Technologies

Find upcoming user group meetings on QuestDirect.
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Quest International Users Group
2365 Harrodsburg Road
Suite A325
Lexington, KY 40504
USA
859.226.4307
USA toll-free: 1.800.225.0517
Fax: 859.226.4338