Re: MAPICS and COMMON -- MAPICS-L


How about a MAPICS Rolling Lab.....there is a new concept underway at COMMON to
allow a lab room to be set up with certain applications and people just rolling
in/out all day and try what they would.  Lab paperwork would be available and
the class member can just pick up the paperwork and do the lab.  The challenge
is in getting the lab instructors for an entire day.    But the idea is great
and MAPICS LAB would be wonderful.    I would think MAPICS would not require a
large lab room.    or....since COMMON has a long lunch time now, maybe labs
during lunch.    Heck, it could become the MAPICS gathering place at COMMON.

Now if MAPICS, Inc. is not up to the challenge, is there any MAPICS User willing
to volunteer?






DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com on 08/20/2001 08:04:04 AM

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I agree - a series of 30 minutes sessions at kiosks, or something like the
MAPICS Theatre (but with a half dozen PCs or so) would be great.  Maybe
MAPICS University, IBM, and MAPICS could band together and set something
like that up.

Dale





"Eric Wolf" <eric_a_wolf@hotmail.com>
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Dale,
The "hands-on" sessions would be more than 15 minutes at a kiosk.  For
example, how about a session where we can create some "tab cards" using
Integrator (not just someone showing it), or real-time on the screen "how
to
install MMA", etc., etc.

Eric


>From: DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com
>Reply-To: mapics-l@midrange.com
>To: mapics-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: MAPICS and COMMON
>Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 13:57:31 -0400
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>Eric,
>
>I have to disagree a little regarding MAPICS being just a sales show - I
>attend several "customer solutions" sessions each year, and have given a
>couple.  I agree, the customer solutions are usually excellent - it is
>always good to see how people use the software to solve problems and how
>they may have implemented the apps in a (perhaps) unusual or different
way.
>Yes, there are "sales sessions" to show the new stuff (which there has
been
>a whole lot of lately!), but I find them necessary to see what all we can
>do with the new stuff - especially the new "Power Architecture" stuff.
>Without the sales sessions at the conference, I don't know how I'd get
>enough good information on the new apps and features.
>
>I personally find the tech expo at the conferences to be VERY valuable.
>Last year's was the best yet - I liked that they expanded the hours from
>prior years.  However, I'd like to have it open even more, especially the
>area where you can talk to the MAPICS developers/support people and try
out
>the new apps at the kiosks.  Is that what you mean by needing more "hands
>on?"
>
>I'd like them to have some roundtables with users also - for things like
>their e-business strategies, effectively implementing some of the Browser
>apps, Supply Chain Management, etc.  Then we could get multiple company's
>solutions in one session.
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>Gail,
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>I think that COMMON and the MAPICS conferences serve different purposes.
>COMMON gives IT departments the opportunity to keep up-to-date with the
IBM
>technologies, as well as, other technologies.
>
>The MAPICS Conference, on the other hand,introduces users to new
>applications, how other users are using MAPICS and 3rd party enhancements
>that they may not be aware of. What the MAPICS conference does not offer
is
>"hands-on" sessions like they did in the past. It has become more of a
>"sales" conference instead of the User Conference.  They also need more
>users to speak on how they solved their problems using MAPICS.
>
>Eric A. Wolf
>Midrange Implementation Specialists
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