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Queensland Ingres
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The
Queensland Ingres User Group Inc meets the last
Tuesday of each ‘odd’ numbered month.
All are welcome, however because we are a self-funded group, non-members will be encouraged to join.
The QIUG Management Committee tabled the following events for the 2004 calendar year :
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30 November 2004
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November AGM and Christmas Party AgendaDate: Tue 30th November 2004 Time: 3:30pm
for a 3:45pm start Venue: Conference
Room Agenda: Software
Quality: the Capability Maturity Model (CMMI) - What's in a Number? Angela Tuffley, Senior Consultant with The
Software Quality Institute Angela presented us with an update on
the status of software quality methodologies, tools and technologies, and
provided an introduction to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI),
a broadly used tool for the achievement, auditing and assessment of software
quality standards. Angela is a Senior Lecturer in the QIUG Annual General Meeting
Business. Presentation of Annual
Report Election of Office Bearers President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Members at Large (2) Drawing and
presentation of Prizes. Lucky Door Prizes courtesy
of CA Most meetings attended draw
User presentations draw Questions and Answers CHRISTMAS
PARTY! Networking and refreshments sponsored by your Computer Associates and
Your User Group. |
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5 October 2004
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Date: Tue 5th October 2004 Time: 3:30pm
for a 3:45pm start Venue: Conference
Room Agenda: Training
in INGRES and OpenROAD
Mark
Smith, Technical Director, Polymorphic Solutions
Mark provided an overview on the
training services available for INGRES and OpenROAD.
Mark also shared his thoughts on the recent INGRES Open Source announcement. Mark has been involved with the INGRES product set
for more than 10 years in a number of capacities including DBA, INGRES
consultant for the ASK Group/CA and more recently INGRES trainer. Mark works
as the Technical Director at Polymorphic Solutions, a Software and Services organisation that has been providing INGRES education and
support services for more than 7 years. Technical
Resources available for INGRES and OpenROAD on the
Web Tony Shellshear,
Principal, Software Design Consultants Tony provided an overview of some of the
perhaps less well known sources of good oil on things INGRES and OpenROAD. These included both detailed technical forums,
and sources of higher lever 'approach' type information. Tony is the Principal at Software Design Consultants
P.L. with experience in INGRES dating back to 1988. What
the Web is Saying about INGRES Open Source and R3 Paul Craig, Applications Programmer, Software Design Consultants Paul provided an overview of the
'political and technical comment' floating around the World Wide
Web; there is a surprising amount of real interest in the announcement. Paul is a recent graduate from Question and Answer
Session. Networking and Refreshments
sponsored by Computer Associates. |
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3 August 2004
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Date: Tue 3rd August 2004 Time: 3:30pm
for a 3:45pm start Venue: Conference
Room Agenda: Confused as to what the Open Source initiative
for INGRES really means? Here was your chance to learn more about open source
software programs, what they entail, and what it may mean for INGRES, and for
INGRES users and developers in the market place. As Marketing Director of Computer Associates
Australia and Questions? This is a huge announcement, and I am aware many questions had been
forthcoming. To assist Jim in best addressing the questions you may have on
this topic, we asked that where possible these questions be emailed prior to
the meeting, to ensure the best response to those questions. |
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8 June 2004
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Date: Tue 8th June 2004 Time: 3:30pm
for a 3:45pm start Venue: Conference
Room Agenda: Fujitsu's
Business Process Manager (50 minutes) John, the Business Process Management champion with Fujitsu, gave a
brief talk on the recent rise of BPM in the market, why it is a hot topic in
the industry today and the essential components of a BPM solution. John used
his company's product, i-Flow, to demonstrate how
INGRES database users like the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and
non-INGRES users like MBF and the Bank of America have benefited from the
adoption of BPM and needed each of these essential components. A Business Process Manager is the part of your
Application Infrastructure that addresses critical business functions by
allowing you to model, automate, integrate, manage and optimise
the processes inherent in every business. It lets your employees, customers,
suppliers & partners interact with your business, resulting in more
efficient employees, greater customer loyalty and better partner relations. Business Process Management is the management of the
white spaces in your organisation that is
specifically the person to person interactions needed to fulfill a business
process in addition to the person to application and application to
application interactions. A Business Process Manager will enable your organisation to improve its Business Process Management
and enable it to rapidly adapt to changing legislative or market demands. Question and
Answer Session (10 minutes) Is anybody using INGRES spatial data types? - A plea from
Adilia Murabito, NR&M. Networking and refreshments sponsored by Computer Associates |
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6 April 2004
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Date: Tue 6th April 2004 Time: 3:30pm
for a 3:45pm start Venue: Conference
Room Agenda: SmartMap - A Graphical GIS Application (60
minutes) Natural
Resources, Mines and Energy SmartMap Information
Services (formerly BLIN) is a geographical web based land information system.
It draws data from a number of Ingres databases via
Tuxedo, Weblogic and Java. This was an interesting
and informative presentation covering a range of technologies! What Do I Do My Role as a DBA at Natural Resources,
Mines and Energy Minh Dao - Natural Resources, Mines and
Energy Networking and refreshments
sponsored by Computer Associates |
Meeting agendas of other
years:
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Meeting is mailed to our members prior to each meeting. Click
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