| Silicon Valley Expandable Users Meeting |
| By Jerry O'Conner, IEUGA Board Member |
| Expandable Software, Inc. held a very successful San Francisco Bay Area Users Group meeting at the Santa Clara Tech Mart on October 21, 2009. |
| Over 90 people were in attendance representing over 40 companies using Expandable software in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| The Agenda included: |
- Release 8.4.1, coming in November and the Software Development Roadmap
- Time Saving Expandable Navigation Tips
- Report Manager Features and Setup
- Job Costing, Job Work Flow including tracking Project Costs using the Engineering Jobs feature of Expandable
- Reporting and Data Analysis Tools
- Expandables’ support for 3rd party CRM and other Applications
- FRX Reporting
- Expandable Alerts-an Automation Tool for Expandable
- The Executive Information Module, including a new Module coming for High Level Reporting and Graphing of current Company Metrics.
- Discussion of the Expandable Web Site including Support Notes, the Training Schedule and other Customer Resource Availability
- Bar Coding, RF Scanning and Data Collection
- Open Forum and Meeting Wrap Up
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| Although this meeting was organized and funded by Expandable, there was a general interest in developing an ongoing local Expandable users group where information on the operation and best practices could be shared for using the Expandable ERP system and complementary applications. |
| Suggestions for doing this on an ongoing basis included a 2-3 hour dinner meeting or lunch meetings once a month where we could cover one topic. These could be held in a local hotel for a reasonable charge. We may have users at larger companies that have larger conference facilities and would be willing to host an occasional meeting. |
| Watch for an email in November to gauge the interest and survey for interests. |
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