Fusion Council Meeting Notes - 2/10/2006 12:00 PM EST

Call Attendees:
Mark Federle Wetiz/Quest
John Stouffer Solution Beacon
Srinkath PV Patni Computer Systems
Lynn Davis Landor
Dave Rudzinsky - Hologic
Timothy Gehrig Cedar Crestone
Patrick Conlon Alleghaney County
Rajesh Dixit DataZoom Solutions
Floyd M. Teter- NASA
Nanci Schimizzi NASD
Thomas M. Gallacher Intelligo Solutions
Varsha Das Univ. of Central Florida
Lee Spiesman Family Dollar
David Vordick USEC
Steven Hughes OAUG Staff
Jonathan Vaughn Quest Staff
Doug Angove, Teichert Construction
Mary Lou Weiss - Solution Beacon

John Stouffer started the meeting by asking members to review the Steering Committee mandate and website. Mandate was sent to oaugfusionsc@soutionbeacon.net along with website link http://oaug.org/fusioncouncil/.

Call was then turned over to Mark Federle of Quest. Mark began by covering how Oracle Fusion Launch meetings. It featured demo of the future of fusion. Oracle representatives stated that they were way to fusion. Oracle will be looking to users groups to help with the second half of fusion development. They are now calling the initiative Fusion, not Project Fusion.Oracle has the presentations posted at http://www.oracle.com/applications/fusion-webcast-2006.html.

At the Fusion Launch Oracle stated that 80% of the customers will find most of the functionality in Fusion. Announced release date for Fusion was 12/31/2008. There will be release specific modules released in 2007. BPEL will be released in 2007. There will be distinct pruning of unused or little used applications. In Release 1 they will concentrate on the highest used modules e.g.financials, manufacturing.

Oracle has released scripts to identify functionality being used and the types of customizations for PeopleSoft Enterprise customers. The scripts are posted at http://www.oaug.org/articles/2006-02-08fusion.php. This is a voluntary program to get as much information as possible to help in the development of the second half of Fusion. Oracle stated that it was not necessary to run the scripts against eBusiness Suite because it was used as a baseline. John Stouffer will pursue finding out from Alan Fletcher or Tim Murray at Oracle whether there will be scripts to identify the customizations in eBusiness Suite.

All 4 product lines (Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel) will have a major release in earlier 2007. There will still be enhancement requests and product releases.

John Stouffer will work with Anne Ristau of OAUG Education Committeee on developing Fusion training.

Next Steps:

  1. Surveys Steven is working with Jon Vaugh on developing surveys. Jon already have hundreds of responses from PeopleSoft and JD Edwards. Steven is development one for Oracle Applications. Steven will follow up with Debra Lily in UK for input on the surveys they have been using. There are a lot of initiatives currently going on. IOUC is working on centralizing this to prevent duplicity.
  2. Committees John Stouffer will work on building a list of operational committees and will send out to Steering committee next week and ask for volunteers to head the committes.
  3. Meeting in Nashville there will be both Steering Committee meeting and Fusion panel at OAUG in Nashville. Steven and Jon will work on scheduling this and will discuss on next Steering Committee conference call.
  4. Next meeting for Steering Committee will be 3/10/2006 at 12 pm EST. Next meeting for the full Fusion Council will be 2/24/2006. The full council will meet the 4th Friday for months of February and March and then will meet 4th Friday of every other month after that. Time will be 12pm EST.