RE: MAPICS Conference!

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I also enjoyed the conference this year, lots of information (as always),
and I thought the Expo Center was very good.  I really think the extra
room was nice to have - not as crowded as in other years.  I did miss the
product displays for the Made With MAPICS stuff, but I think the extra
room was more important.  Maybe next year they could have products
displayed in the hallways?

I also liked the "dedicated Expo" time scheduled.  That was always a tough
pick for me - sessions or visit vendor booths?

One thing I was a little disappointed with was the scheduling of the
sessions.  There were a whole lot of interesting and relevant sessions
scheduled, but frequently there were several on the same topics at the
same time.  I had to pick-and-choose between several options (up to 4) in
one time slot, and then there wasn't anything on that topic in the next
slot, e-business/web-stuff for example.  I think they should consider
going back to the "tracks" method of scheduling, with no more than two
concurrent sessions in a track?  Naturally, as a typical customer I can't
offer a suggestion as to how to do the scheduling.  I'm glad that
scheduling sessions isn't MY job!  I'd probably do much worse!

Another item that might have helped - special time slots for sessions on
the R7 technology apart from the regular sessions (Monday evening?).  The
various sessions that Phil Josephs and the others from ParagonSI, and
"Implementing R7" session by Rich Ayers on the various new Browser stuff
were pretty well essential for those of us planning to upgrade to R7, and
they took up a lot of my session time that I would have liked to have used
to listen to customer stories.

All in all, another excellent conference.  I only wish I could have
brought more people from my company with me.

Dale @ Fleetwood