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OAUG Enhancement Request System
(ERS) Pilot Program

Building Strength Through Participation

The SIG has four meetings per year. Two of the meetings are one day meetings held as part of the two annual OAUG meetings (Spring and Fall). These meeting are open to anyone. The other two meetings are two day meetings hosted by one of the SIG members. These meetings will usually be in February and July or August, and are for SIG members only.

The purpose of the Global HRIS SIG is to...

  • Share experiences in using Oracle® products and services with other SIG members and learn from their experiences.
  • Influence direction and improve the products through communication and cooperation with Oracle®.
  • Provide a forum for sharing knowledge and news from all sources with other SIG members.
  • Encourage broad use of the product through dialogue with prospective customers.
  • Achieve maximum business value from our investment in Oracle® products.

Requirements for participation are:

  • Be an OAUG Member
  • Have purchased one of the Oracle® HRMS products
  • Consultants and third party vendors working on Oracle® HRMS implementations are welcome. The restrictions on consultants and third party vendors are that they cannot solicit business at the meetings, use the membership list to solicit business, or vote on SIG items.

(If you have purchased one of the modules and are not yet an OAUG member, we will accept your membership if you plan to become an OAUG member.)

There are no dues. Your company can have multiple names on the membership list. Certain meetings may charge to cover the expenses involved in hosting the meeting. So far, this has applied to just the two, two day meetings. Specific meeting charges have ranged from $100 to $150 per person.

Please contact John Hale if you have any questions regarding membership eligibility.

To become a member, please email the following information (in its entirety) to Austin Reason (Secretary / Communications Chair):

  • Name
  • Title
  • Company Name
  • Company Street address
  • City, State Zip
  • Phone
  • Fax
  • E-mail address
  • Is your company an OAUG member?
  • If not, do you intend to join?
  • Are you a consultant or vendor?

Current Officers are:

Chair - John Hale
Gevity HR
600 301 Blvd West
Bradenton, FL 34209
E-Mail: john.hale@gevityhr.com

Vice Chair - Mark Silverstein
Xcelicor, Inc.
5421 Beaumont Center Blvd.
Suite 680
Tampa, FL 33634
E-Mail: msilverstein@xcelicor.com

Secretary/Communications Chair - Austin Reason
iSAM
6801 Lake Worth
Suite 331
Lake Worth, FL 33467
Phone:(561) 649-7787 Fax: (561) 649-7501
E-Mail: austin@isamglobal.com

Webmaster - Keith Burr
KBACE Technologies
6 Trafalgar Square
Nashua, NH 03063
(800) 593-5824 Cell: (617) 821-9828
E-Mail: kburr@kbace.com

In addition to SIGs, OAUG has a number of Enhancement Committee Chairs. There are two OAUG Enhancement Committee Chairs covering the HRMS modules. Both are members of our Global HRIS SIG and there is close coordination between their activities on enhancements and SIG activities. We view these Enhancement Committee Chairs as part of the SIG Leadership Team.



Current Enhancement Committee Chairs are:

Payroll - C. Tim Muffly
Director, Corporate Payrolls
PPG Industries, Inc.
E-Mail: tmuffly@ppg.com

Human Resources - Diane Patch
HRIS Manager
Consultant
Xcelicor, Inc.
E-Mail: dpatch@xcelicor.com

OTA - Oracle® Training Administration Enhancements - for now, in with HR

OTM - Oracle® Time Management Enhancements - for now, in with HR

The main form of communications in the SIG is via e-mail and the SIG Web site.

We are on the OAUG Web (http://www.oaug.org) - click on Geographic and Special Interest Groups, and then click Global HRIS SIG. The SIG has information on the public side of the OAUG web and we have information in the OAUG Members Only section. For a direct connection, use http://www.oaug.org/hrissig/HRIShome.htm

If you meet the eligibility requirements, we would like to invite you and your company to join our SIG. The more users involved, the greater the opportunity for sharing and the greater the opportunity to impact on product direction. The Oracle® HRMS Product Managers and developers are at our meetings. We also have Oracle® World Wide Support and Oracle® Consulting at each meeting. Please feel free to contact anyone listed in this letter to discuss any questions you may have.

Application - Please use this form to add you and your company to our membership list. Please complete the form and attach it to an e-mail to Austin Reason, Secretary/Communications Chair, austin@isamglobal.com, with a copy to John Hale ( john.hale@gevityhr.com ).


Listservers and Forums - ways to track questions and answers from the Oracle® HRMS user community

Listserver - Track general Oracle® activities using the OAUG OraApp-L server: http://www.cpa.qc.ca/Lists/OraApps-L/OraApps-L is a public mail list.
Listserver - Oracle® HRMS Mail List - OraHRMS-L is a public mail list seeking charter subscribers for discussions on the Oracle® HRMS Suite of Products. Please join the growing list of members which include Oracle® Corporation consultants, successful independent implementers, and Oracle® HRMS clients. OraHRMS-L provides simple subscriber commands, a message digest mode and a message archive on the Web. To start the subscription process just send a message to: OraHRMS-L-on@mail-list.com Your message will be forwarded to the list owner for approval.
Forum - Oracle® MetaLink Home Page Sections - There are technical forums, including a Human Resources forum and a Payroll forum. These are not e-mail systems, however, they do track questions and answers.


Standing Committees

Each Standing Committee is responsible for providing focus to their particular area. Most of their work is done by phone and e-mail. They suggest agenda items, track and recommend enhancements, coordinate/encourage papers and presentations at SIG or OAUG meetings, make SIG or OAUG presentations, coordinate what goes out on the SIG web page, collect white papers, etc. Each committee would shepherd their area so the SIG can help with what members need and want from the SIG.

Being on a Standing Committee can be for as long or short as a person wishes. The goal is to have every SIG member on one of the Standing Committees. Each committee should decide how they want to operate. Do they want a committee chair? How will they communicate with each other? How often will they communicate? Will they have sub-committees? (HR and Payroll might be candidates for sub-committees)

On an overall basis, the SIG Vice Chair, Susan Beals (susan.beals@cgiusa.com) is responsible for the Standing Committees and will work with each and share information across all of them.

Enhancements

Enhancement Procedure:

The procedure to follow to have an item added to one of the Enhancement lists (HR or Payroll) for voting, is to call Oracle® Worldwide Support or e-mail your request to ERREQ@us.Oracle®.com. The enhancements are then logged and assigned a number. These lists are then collected by OAUG early in the year and sent to the Enhancement Chairs, who put them in final form for voting.

Enhancement requests for OTA (Oracle® Training Administration) or OTM (Oracle® Time Management) should be logged in with HR.

For questions and answers about using the e-mail system, contact ERREQDBA@us.Oracle®.com. Also, there is a booklet titled Product Enhancement Request System User's Guide. It was written by Oracle® and the OAUG.

Following are the instructions given to each Enhancement Chair as they begin the process of preparing for the 1998 cycle. The cycle schedule is:

New Enhancements pulled from Oracle® database 1/9/98;
New Enhancements loaded and sent to chairs for editing 2/2/98;
Old Enhancements removed for zero vote items 2/27/98;
New enhancements reviewed for duplicates and zero voted items removed 4/24/98;
Complete ballot prepared 4/24/98;
Ballots delivered to members and placed on WEB for voting 5/26/98;
Voting deadline 7/31/98;
Results returned to Oracle® 8/14/98;
Results presented at fall conference.

This year voting will be done on the WEB.Ballots will be returned to Oracle® and their database will be updated appropriately. This should simplify the process going forward in future years.

Please contact the appropriate Enhancement Chair if you have additional questions. List of Enhancement Chairs