Sierra Pacific User Group

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Jim Callaghan, President
State of California
Callaghan.Jim@state.ca.gov

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The Sierra Pacific User Group (SPUG)

The Sierra Pacific Users Group is intended to support all those Software AG users and clients in the Sierra Pacific region in using SAG products to support their business information needs.

We also aim to provide Software AG with a link to the Sierra Pacific user community to gain insight into their needs and to promote dialogue concerning the use and future of Software AG products.

SPUG News

A special thanks goes to Jim Callaghan for accepting the role as the new President of the Software AG, Sierra Pacific user group. - Updated April 2011



Summary of our Spring 2011 meeting - Updated April 2011



The Spring 2011 SPUG meeting was held at the Raddison Hotel on Leisure Lane on Tuesday, April 12th. The meeting was well attended and began with Registration and Continental Breakfast. Jeff Pisczek gave an update on Software AG. Alex Burggraf presented an overview of the Software AG IT Modernization Strategy. Patrick Gould gave presentations on Process Intelligence for Natural Applications and Natural Roadmap,427 and Add Ons Update. Becky Albin discussed Adabas Large Objects and What's New with Adabas v8.2. Mary Lalouch gave an update of the current contract with the State of California. The meeting wrapped up with a few words from Bruce Hendrickson and Door Prizes.







Summary and member feedback from our Spring 2009 meeting - Updated July 2009

Thank you to all who attended our Spring 2009 SPUG meeting. The meeting was held on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at The Courtyard by Marriott Cal Expo. The meeting was attended by 54 SPUG members. The presentations included "Experiences With The Event Replicator For ADABAS" by Dieter Storr, "Natural Application Development & Deployment in a Windows Environment" by Patrick Gould, "Monitoring ADABAS & Natural with webMethods Optimize for Infrastructure" by Mark Braukhoff and Pete Diestl gave a live demonstration of "Natural Engineer 621"


You can still print the presentations by going to the Archived Presentations page. page.

A few days after the meeting, we emailed all attendees a link to our satisfaction survey. We had 22 responses and the results can be viewed here.

Summary and member feedback for our Fall 2008 meeting - Updated 3/31/2009

The Fall 2008 SPUG meeting was held on Wednesday, November 19 at the Doubletree Hotel Sacramento.

59 members were on hand to take in presentations from Dieter Storr and Ralph Zbrog who did encore presentations from the Natural Conference in Boston. Becky Albin and Bruce Beaman of Software AG did presentations on ADABAS Archiving and Encryption and webMethods Optimize which were featured earlier in the month at Innovation World 2008 in Miami.

Becky also provided us with three USB Memory drives that were given away as door prizes at the end of the meeting.

If you didn't get a chance to print out the presentation handouts prior to the meeting, they are still available on our Archived Presentations page.

A few days after the meeting, we emailed all attendees a link to our satisfaction survey. We had 21 people respond and the results can be viewed here.





Summary of our Spring User Group meeting and survey/feedback results - Updated 5/21/2008

We held our Spring 2008 meeting on Tuesday, May 6 at The Sacramento Radisson Hotel. We had an incredible turnout of 86 attendees for this meeting, mainly from various agencies of the State of California.

Becky Albin of Software AG kicked off the festivities with her presentation on "ADABAS/Natural: New functionality for Programmers and DBA's".

We were then treated to a "Natural for AJAX - End user experience" by Dave Love of the California State Board of Equalization.

After lunch, Patrick Gould from Software AG did the next two presentations: "Single Click Generation and Deployment for Building Web Services with Natural Business Service" which featured a live demonstration; and "Reach Your Modernization Goals - Faster!" about various legacy modernization solutions offered within the webMethods Application Modernization Suite.

Becky closed out the presentations with a very informative discussion on "ADABAS and Disk Usage - is it time to reevaluate?" geared mainly toward the DBA's, but definitely of interest to all!

If you haven't gotten them yet, all of the above presentations are available for download on the Archived Presentations page.

Of course, we couldn't end our day before our much anticipated raffle! A digital picture frame and five $5 Starbucks gift cards were provided to us by Software AG for giveaway. And, once again, Emmet Kinsellagh, our Account Executive, provided the grand prize: an iPod Shuffle!!!

Joy Abbott, a Programmer/Analyst at the Department of Consumer Affairs, was the lucky winner of the iPod! Joy is a big fan of audio books and looks forward to listening to them on her new toy! Hmmm, I wonder if the Natural manuals are available in MP3 format. Congratulations, Joy!!! And, thanks again, Emmet!

The results of this meeting's satisfaction survey have been compiled and can be viewed here. Also, this was the first meeting where we made soft copies of the presentations available beforehand for download and printing. The feedback regarding this has been generally positive. If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you experienced difficulties downloading the presentations, please contact the SPUG President.