Meeting Minutes

Date:      December 6, 2001
Time:      9:00 am – 3:00 pm   MST
Location: Einstein/Noah Bagel in Golden

 

Robyn Myers welcomed the group to the 4th quarter Rocky Mountain Lawson User Group Meeting, which had 40 attendees.

Robyn thanked Einstein Bros for the location and providing breakfast and lunch, Dave Amen of Kastle Consulting for maintaining the ROMLUG web site, Rhonda Schuler and Kitty Brozinski for assisting in finding speakers for the meeting, and all the speakers who attended the meeting.

Robyn asked the group for topic ideas for future meetings.  Most of the topics were surrounding Lawson 8.0.  Other suggestions were BSI tax factory, E-Recruiting, Canadian Payroll, and Enterprise Reporting tool.

Joyce Fell of Denver Public Schools updated the group that the committee is putting a hold on getting a Non-profit status for the Rocky Mountain Lawson User Group.  The committee discovered that we have to establish our organization dues structure prior to initiating the Non-profit status.  The committee will focus on improving participation in the user group before pursuing the Non-profit status. 

Robyn Myers announced that Kitty Brozinski, the Lawson Healthcare client manager as our Co-liaison for our user group. 

Kitty Bronzinski presented Lawson’s New KnowledgeDB Project:

•       It’s Out There, another avenue of information
•       Clients need to know that the GSC will refer clients to this knowledge base site
•       The site was the ability to search and filter around on the website

Rhonda Schuler, Lawson National Training Manager, talked about the status of a training center in Denver, about upcoming training classes and other Lawson information:

•       Discounted Training
•       Recent Communications
•       Interaction center
•       Support Deadlines
•       CUE 2002

View Rhonda’s PowerPoint presentation here!

Jim Gustafson, Lawson Upgrade Manager and Brian Beckman from Digiterra gave presentations on Upgrading to 8.0.  Jim talked about the process, services, tools, and the opportunities for success. Brian talked about what’s new in 8.0, the 8.0 environment, upgrade to 8.0 application, preparing for the 8.0 upgrade, and where to get additional information.

View Jim Gustafson’s PowerPoint presentation here!
View Brian Beckman’s Power point presentation here!

An excellent lunch, provided by Einstein Bros Bagel, consisted of an assortment of bagel sandwiches, chips, salads, and cookies.

 

After lunch, Rhonda Schuler, the Lawson National Training Manager, demonstrated the new Lawson Enhancement Request system. 

•       Clients need to know that the enhancements requests are reviewed in a 3- month period.
•       The system was the ability to view existing enhancement request forms submitted
•       There will be a Phase II to this Enhancement request system.

 

Bryan Heifer from Lawson presented on Payroll year-end processing.  He talked about the Year End websites, Lawson System changes specific to year 2001, and year-end procedures.

 

This was the best ROMLUG meeting so far - they just keep improving in terms of content and fellow Lawson experts to connect with. Don't miss the next meeting!