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Annual Conference 2007

Forest of Arden Hotel & Country Club
West Midlands

18th & 19th September 2007

You and your colleagues are invited to attend the MUA annual conference, which will build on the success of previous conferences, with an agenda (see below) that has an emphasis on Customer Case Studies, and includes a few presentations from other suppliers, on improving the use of Movex.

This year the format is changed, in order to maximise your time, we have joined together with the "What's Next" event from Lawson and the Lawson UK User Group, so as well as the opportunity to meet more than 100 delegates and to spend time networking with other MUA members, you can also meet Harry Debes and his whole Lawson Senior Management team.

Similtaneously, but in another meeting room, the Lawson UK User Group (LUKUG) will be holding their Annual Conference, but we will share the vendor exhibition, plus we'll have lunch and dinner together, and exchange our experiences of being in the larger Lawson family. You are most welcome to attend any session from either of the two conferences.

This year’s event is a first within Lawson and will be bigger and better than ever and therefore should not be missed. (Non members of either MUA and LUKUG are also welcome).

To reserve your place please complete the registration form:

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PLEASE NOTE:
All prices are exclusive of VAT at 17.5%, which will be added.
Payment for Full Delegates will be to the hotel on check out.
Payment for Day Delegates will be in advance via Credit Card
details of this procedure will be sent once registered.
 
 

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MUA Agenda

Day One - 18th September 2007

10:00 - 16:00
Lawson "What's Next"



16:00 - 16:30
Refreshments



16:30 - 17:00
Welcome & MUA Update
Graham Maxfield, MUA General Manager will open the conference and provide an update to what has been a very successful year for the MUA.


17:00 - 17:30
Case Study - Zeppelin
Leo Von Stillfried, CRM Project Manager, Zeppelin, will present their implementation of Lawson's new release of their Sales & Marketing Suite (SMSv6.0). Estrix's help ensured that Zeppelin have taken advantage of Lawson's latest CRM release to leverage greater ROI from their Movex investment.


17:30 - 18:00
Case Study - Newell Rubbermaid
John Calvey will explain how they seamlessly replicate & integrate business-centric information in real time to their BI solution, using Data Integrator from Vision Solutions. For the first time, their Data Warehouse information is immediately updated as the data changes in their live system. This integrated solution gives them timely information that enables the business to react with speed & accuracy to business needs based on the current facts, rather than the last batch extract.


18:00 - 19:00
Relaxation Time



19:00 - 20:00
Pre Dinner Drinks
You are invited to join Vision Solutions in the bar for pre-dinner drinks.


20:00 - 22:30
Conference Dinner



22:30 - late
Post Dinner Drinks
You are invited to join eVentura in the bar for post-dinner drinks.


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Day Two - 19th September 2007



09:00 - 09:30
Lawson Support
Marc Houx, EMEA Support Director will give a presentation on the performance of his support team, and will highlight any of the changes taking place


09:30 - 10:00
Lawson - Learning Accelerator
The Learning Accelerator Developer is Lawson's answer to creating a successful, end user focussed implementation that delivers the expected return on your investment. It is one tool that does the job of several and creates a single content repository to enable businesses to quickly re-use and re-purpose the same content into a variety of outputs for end user training, process enablement and documentation. As the application doesn't require highly skilled programmers to create the simulations Learning Accelerator is easy to support and maintain.


10:00 - 10:30
Automated Supplier Invoice Matching with Workflow
MultiSupport will be making a short presentation on the company and their Software offering Multi Archive. This will cover the general functionality of the document archiving solution and in addition we will present our capabilities in the Movex arena regarding different versions of M3 and briefly present three different business case studies.


10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break



11:00 - 11:30
Case Study - Ashworth Golf
Gary Pritchard of Ashworth will present how use of Executive Dash will enable Ashworth Europe to rapidly provide and update management and ad-hoc reports which include drill-down capabilities and are based on LIVE Movex data together with data from other sources. Executive Dash which comes from the same stable as Spreadsheet Server for Movex uses the presentation capabilities and existing user expertise in Excel and is supplied and supported by eVentura. Demonstrations will be available
on the eVentura stand.


11:30 - 12:00
Case Study - Wm Blythe
Teresa Pepper will explain that having made their decision to stay on
their existing RPG version of Movex, her company needed extended functionality, whilst maintaining the integrity of the Movex database. Using a low cost solution from SCL, they have successfully expanded Movex to include Export Documentatiion and other improvements.


12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
Buffet lunch served in the hotel restaurant


13:00 - 13:30
Streamserve
Jean Paul Schriek, Product Director of StreamServe will give an overview of additional possibilities of MOM which can help organizations to improve the information flow supporting their core quinines processes. Solutions like M3 to Excel, Post Processing & EU-invoicing are some of the discussed topics in this presentation, and will contain brief customer examples of these solutions


13:30 - 14:00
Case Study - Scott Bader
Jeff Legg, European I.S. Manager for Scott Bader, will give a presentation on their European deployment of the Java 12.5. Charles Noden of TotalAmber will explain how their services brought added value to this implementation.


14:00 - 14:30
mrc - Intranet & Extranet Applications
mPower is used at a number of Movex clients to add new functionality, without modifying the core system. Examples of Management Information intranet sites, secure extranet sites, and cases of on-line ordering. The presentation will include showing a Movex complaint handling module and the development environment.


14:30 - 15:00
Case Study - Hagemeyer
Ian Cleaver will explain how Hagemeyer's use of BPW, Cognos 8 and BI concepts are shifting from operational reporting to holistic business centric solutions. Assimil8 have been assisting Hagemeyer in leveraging the investment in BI by delivering branch performance information via dashboards and Metrics.


15:00 - 15:30
Product Information Management
Mike Nutter wiill present PIM, which is a mission critical process for all companies who regard product information as a corporate asset.


15:30 - 15:45
Conference Review
Graham Maxfield will give an overview of the cenference.


15:45
MUA Conference Close

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LUKUG Agenda

Day One - 18th September 2007

10:00 - 16:00
Lawson "What's Next"



16:00 - 16:30
Refreshments



16:30 - 17:15
Welcome and LUKUG Update



17:15 - 18:00
Lawson Enhancement Request System
An introduction to Lawson Enhancement Request System and LGUG's Prioritisation Survey for M3 customers and reminder for S3 customers plus debate on future collaboration between MUA and LUKUG.


18:00 - 19:00
Relaxation Time



19:00 - 20:00
Pre Dinner Drinks
You are invited to join Vision Solutions in the bar for pre-dinner drinks.


20:00 - 22:30
Conference Dinner



22:30 - late
Post Dinner Drinks
You are invited to join eVentura in the bar for post-dinner drinks.


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Day Two - 19th September 2007



09:00 - 09:30
Case Study (Mott MacDonald)
Business Reporting, challenges & solutions


09:30 - 10:30
NupSoft/Ascend
A drop in Report, Archive, & Management Solution compatible
with ALL Systems


10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break



11:00 - 11:45
Grant Thornton
An auditors view on IT Controls, the current position and where compliance issues might take us the future


11:45 - 12:00
Vendor Exhibition



12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
Buffet lunch served in the hotel restaurant


13:00 - 13:30
Case Study (Nuffield Hospitals)
Transforming Healthcare Management in the UK, the implementation of S3


13:30 - 14:00
Bottom Line
Presentation to be finalised


14:00 - 14:45
IBM - Disaster Recovery
current issues & solutions


14:45 - 15:30
Coffee / Vendor Exhibition



15:30
LUKUG Conference Close

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