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Elections
New officers announced as follows:
Regional Representative:
Brock Norman
Training Coordinator:
Leo Webb
Program Coordinator:
Tom Thomas
Secretary:
Loretta Eaves
Miscellaneous
Software AG would like to host an
ADABAS 5 capabilities class locally,
Bill Linker, Software AG,
asked for interested customers at
$400-$500 each. The class costs
$8000 on-site with maximum class
size of 20 participants. The group
was polled for interest (possibly 10
people). Washington State's training
division in Olympia may be
contacted for a training room.
Bill had a brochure describing Integrated
Systems Architecture.
The next meeting is on October
21st and topics suggested were:
migration to ADABAS 5 and an
overview of the conference sessions
by those who attended.
Contact Steve Bradley, Software
AG, for demo diskettes.
Dependency matrix or diagram was
requested by users to know if a
product of interest will run in current
environment andlor what else
is needed to make it run. Steve
Bradley noted this need.
Copies of handouts and overviews
referred to in the meeting notes
may be obtained from the
Northwest SAGGROUP Secretary,
Loretta Eaves, (206) 586-4578,
Washington State Department of
Licensing, Highways-Licenses
Bldg. MIS PB-01, Olympia, Washington
98504.
SIERRA PACIFIC REGION
Sheri Kosh Gave
An Informative
Presentation On
Using PREDICT
With NATURAL 2
Ronna Slobe
State of Nevada
Due to conflicting schedules the
June meeting of the Sierra Pacific
Users' Group was cancelled. The
September meeting was held September
12th in South Lake Tahoe
and was hosted by the State of
Nevada. Thirty-six people attended
representing twenty-one users.
The first order of business was election
of new officers. Ronna Slobe
from the State of Nevada was
elected Regional Representative
and Janice Patterson, from the State
of California Alcoholic Beverage
Control, was elected Secretary.
Nonnette Mello, the new Technical
Support Manager from the San
Francisco Office was introduced.
She told us they are implementing
new procedures for more timely
customer contacts. Software AG
customers supported by the San
Francisco Office should be expecting
to see and hear from their
Account Representative on a more
regular basis.
Sheri Kosh, an instructor from Reston,
gave a very good presentation
on "Using PREDICT to Manage
NATURAL 2 Applications." She
was referring to PREDICT V2.3.
Sheri defined the three types of
processing rules: 1) Automatic
rules which are tied to a DDM, 2) Inline
rules which are coded in-line
in the map editor, and 3) Free rules
which are stored in PREDICT and
can be pulled into any map. We
were given an overview of the
Software Development Life Cycle
and where Software AG products
can be incorporated into the cycle.
Then Sheri discussed the necessary
components of a NATURAL 2 application
along with PREDICT 2.3
subsystems and their uses. The presentation
was packed full of
information.
The next item on the agenda was a
presentation by Susan Kaplar pertaining
to NATURAL Elite. Susan
told us what courseware was available
currently and will be available
in the future. The pros and cons of
a mainframe based computer assisted
instruction package were
discussed and Susan explained the
components of NATURAL Elite 2,
including Administration, Authoring
and Presentation. Sh'e showed
us how a person would go about
authoring a class or modifying an
existing class.
After Susan's presentation there
was some discussion about user
experiences. Justifying the purchase
of the package was easy if you
compare the cost of sending all
your people to training or bringing
training into your business. However,
the timeliness of the release of
the NATURAL 2 Structured Mode
series of classes was of some
concern.
The next Tuesday meeting of the
Sierra Pacific Users' Group is
scheduled for December 6, 1988,
and will be held at the Software AG
office in San Francisco.
We Want To Hear
From You!
Send the minutes from
your latest regional
meeting to:
Pam Ellis
Software AG
11190 Sunrise Valley
Drive
Reston, VA 22091