Spring 2008 SPUG Meeting Survey Results
1) Did you feel this meeting met your expectations for a productive Software AG user group meeting?
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1
Yes |
2
No |
3
Somewhat |
Responses
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37 (97.37%)
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0 (0.00%)
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1 (2.63%)
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38
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2) Given the constraints of the user group format and budget do you have any suggestions for improving the meetings?
| - longer breaks between presentations. |
| - no need for any printed materials if we can get soft-copies. |
| - hosted by DTS at training facility. |
| - no |
| - Include scheduled breaks in the agenda. |
| - Not at the moment. This one was one of the better that I have attended. All of the epresentations were either directly relevent to my work, or of interest for future use - e.g. Dave Loves Ajax project. |
| - No, I thought that it was a good meeting. I enjoyed the Natural for AJAX presentation. |
| - No. |
| - It was sometimes hard to hear, partly because I was seated in back, partly because of private (and annoying) conversations taking place in hall and by the coffee/snack table. I wondered why the stage wasn't utilized, as it would have been more central to all attendees. Other than that - no suggestions, you guys already do a great job. |
| - None. |
| - N/A |
| - meet at customer site |
| - No. |
3) How would you rate the individual presentations?
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1
Great - On target for user group and good presenter |
2
Good - Topic was good but the presenter left me wanting |
3
OK - Not really of immediate interest to me but worth my time |
4
Not OK - Subject not what I look for my attendance |
5
Waste of time - Do not schedule presentation of this nature |
Responses
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| Adabas/Natural: New functionality for Programmers and DBA’s - Becky Albin, Software AG |
35 (89.74%)
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4 (10.26%)
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0 (0.00%)
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0 (0.00%)
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0 (0.00%)
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39
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| Natural for AJAX - End user experience - Dave Love, California State Board of Equalization |
24 (61.54%)
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7 (17.95%)
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8 (20.51%)
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0 (0.00%)
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0 (0.00%)
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39
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| Single Click Generation and Deployment for Building Web Services with Natural Business Service - Patrick Gould, Software AG |
13 (33.33%)
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12 (30.77%)
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13 (33.33%)
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1 (2.56%)
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0 (0.00%)
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39
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| Reach Your Modernization Goals - Faster! - Patrick Gould, Software AG |
13 (33.33%)
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13 (33.33%)
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12 (30.77%)
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1 (2.56%)
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0 (0.00%)
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39
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| Adabas and Disk Usage – is it time to reevaluate? - Becky Albin, Software AG |
31 (79.49%)
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3 (7.69%)
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5 (12.82%)
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0 (0.00%)
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0 (0.00%)
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39
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4) Do you have any specific comments on any of the presentations?
| - It would be great to get more 'customer experience' presentation and maybe some 'best practices' discussions about certain topics rather then having Software AG run the program. It is a 'User'(!!) group meeting after all .... |
| - Dave Love's presentation could be more informative if explaining more the technical details. |
| - no |
| - I would have liked more detail on Single Click Generation and Deployment of Building Web Services with Natural. |
| - I thought the screen was located a bit too far away. There was a lot of space in between the screen and the audience. Having the Powerpoint printouts were great, but it was difficult to see the live demonstrations. I think it would also be helpful if the presenters used some sort of lazer pointer when making reference to something on the screen. |
| - Great technical information on ADABAS disk usage and block sizing from Becky! We need more of these fundamentals type presentations. |
| - Becky & Patrick are very good presenters. The OK ratings reflect only on the material. Becky's material was presented previously. |
| - The Adabas and Disk Usage presentation seemed more geared towards DBA and consequently was a little boring, especially late in the afternoon. Perhaps a more condensed presentation in the morning would have kept my interest more. Its good to know what is going on in the DBA world but being a programmer I couldn't get to excited about that one. Everything else was very interesting to me. |
| - David Love's experience was of great interest. It's common for people who control the buying decisions to NOT comprehend that they only need a new front-end. Some unscrupulous contractors (and irresponsible managers) exploit this, wasting thousands and thousands of dollars on completely new, high-tech systems that look pretty but don't work as well as the old green-screen stuff did because all the intricate, finely tuned code was tossed out. Infuriating to a civil servant who sees taxpayer money being so lavishly wasted while public schools, Medi-Cal, etc keep getting their budgets cut. Wish more of the "money people" could have seen the presentation. |
| - They were all very good. |
| - I like how Becky moved at a quicker paced and would acknowledge when she knew certain aspects would not be useful to some of the audience. |
| - N/A |
| - No. |
| - The Single-Click and Modernization Goals seminars made my head spin. The introduction of so many tools was thoroughly confusing to me. I am a hard-core mainframer and the technology is sometimes too far advanced for me (in my opinion). |
| - The screens are little bit hard to see. |
5) Facilities - We used a "half crescent" seating arrangement for this meeting - round tables with seats only facing
the presenters. What did you think of it?
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This is my preferred arrangement
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I preferred the previous "classroom" straight tables
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I prefer the full seating arrangement at round tables
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No Preference
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Responses
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30 (76.92%)
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4 (10.26%)
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1 (2.56%)
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4 (10.26%)
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39
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6) To reduce the cost of putting on this event, the presentations were posted prior to the meeting and you were asked
to download and print them if so desired. Were you able to do this easily?
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Percentage
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Responses
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| Yes |  |
92.3% | 36 |
| No |
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7.7% | 3 |
| Total responses: |
39
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7) With the Natural Conference and Innovation World taking place in the fall, there
is some discussion of not holding fall user groups. What would be your preference if there is no
Software AG finanical support for the fall user group?
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Percentage
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Responses
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| I would attend the meeting if there was no lunch provided and featured only local presenters | |
61.0% | 25 |
| I would not attend if lunch was not provided |
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2.4% | 1 |
| I do not think the meeting should be held without Software AG assistance |
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36.6% | 15 |
| Total responses: |
41
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8) Would your organization be willing to provide a facility for a meeting described in the previous question?
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Percentage
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Responses
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| Yes | |
4.2% | 1 |
| No |
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95.8% | 23 |
| Total responses: |
24
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9) Anything else you would like to pass along to the user group president or Software AG?
| - Keep it up, I appreciate everyone's efforts. |
| - Good User Group Conference. I would like some break time between the presentations (10-15 minutes). |
| - Great Job!!! |
| - Thank you to Bruce and Software AG for providing a valuable forum for sharing information. |
| - #7 - most of info seems to come from SAG. If SAG wasn't involved would there be enough presenters? |
| - The last several meetings have been wonderful! Great presenters and subject matter! |
| - Good job, thanks! |
| - In regards to question 7, if a presentation was being made on a topic I was interested in, I would definitely attend. That being said, most of the presentations I would be interested in are normally done by SAG. Thank you again for another great meeting. |
| - Presenters were well-prepared, knowledgeable, articulate, interesting. Good meeting! |
| - We gained a lot of valuable information at this meeting, especially from Becky. The food and facilities were very nice. |
| - You did great job, Bruce. Thank you very much. |
| - I applaud the user group president doing another outstanding job organizing this event. Thank you! |
| - Thanks for going to the half-crescent seating. Much appreciated. |