MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Our next Alabama IRES User Group meeting will be Wednesday, November 4^th, 2009 at The Barber Companies, Inc. in Birmingham, from 11am to 3pm. 

The agenda for this meeting includes the following sessions: 1) Corporate Portal solutions: 3 vendors, Yardi, RealFuse Solutions and Datexmedia, will demonstrate their strategy and approach in providing key management reporting and metrics, 2) IRES will present the current product roadmap, what is planned for their next service pack update, SP5 for v4.0,as well as the latest updates to the new Cash Flow Budgeting and Impact modules, 3) The User Groups will present their new registration site, TeamR, as well as new areas of interest, including a job posting space and chat room.  Time permitting, we will demonstrate how to use the IRES WIKI.  We will provide time for networking with each other to discuss client initiatives, solutions, version upgrade success stories and recent user experiences with MRI. 

Note:  This meeting is open to ALL MRI users, whether you have paid dues or not. Beginning in year 2010, all those attending meetings will be required to pay annual dues.  The User Group is a completely independent, self sponsored group of volunteers.  We need the support of your company to fund these meetings and pay for the organizational costs of this effort.  Dues are still only $100 per company per year.  If you would still like to sponsor our user group for 2009, please bring the your dues check to this meeting (we will provide invoices for dues, as well as W-9s.  Please see "How to sponsor your User Group" below for more details.

Meeting Information and Agenda

How to Sponsor your User Group

If you have not become a member and would like to, please send your 2009 User Group dues contribution check for $100 made payable to IRES User Group, Inc., to the following address: Brian Laird, EastGroup Properties, Post Office Box 22728, Jackson, MS 39225-2728.  If you require an invoice for the annual dues, please email Brian at brian.laird@eastgroup.net or call at (601) 354-3555.  You may also bring your dues payment to the meeting.

Featured Topics

IRES Product Roadmap Update

Mike Bates from IRES will present the current product roadmap, with a detailed update on what is coming out in Service Pack 5 for version 4.0, to be released in Spring 2010.  In addition, Mike will review where IRES is with the new version 5.0, what modules have been released and what is coming out in the near future, including a discussion on the plans for CM, Job Cost and new projects.  

Corporate  Portals

Desktop portals are information systems able of consolidating and presenting key business metrics and information from different data sources throughout an organization, built for all levels of viewership, from business managers, to tenants, to partners and investors.  Three  different vendors will demonstrate their portal platform solutions.   Participants include:

Joseph Smith, Manager of Technical Sales at Yardi Systems will demonstrate Yardi's flagship desktop portal that leverages MRI data through a conversion utility

http://www.yardi.com/product/Portal.asp

Sandy Jacolow, Vice President - Real Estate Technnology at RealFuse Solutions will demonstrate RealFuse Solution's corporate portal solution that leveraged Microsoft Sharepoint Server

http://www.inetium.com/whoweare/business_productivity/portals/Pages/default.aspx

Scott Mahler, President of Datexmedia will demonstrate DatexMedia's custom portal development approach using standard industry tools and framework.

http://datexmedia.com/

User Group TeamR registration site and IRES WIKI

We will be demonstrating the TEAMR web site that the User Group organization recently implemented to build our membership database, post a calendar of events, register users for meetings and blast out the meeting notices.   This site has the potential for posting job opportunities, resumes, MRI newsletter type information and anything else that provides value to our members.

Time permitting, we will also review the IRES WIKI and how to post articles, reply to threads and search for solutions.

REGISTRATION

If you are already a member on Teamr:  To register for this meeting, simply click on the Attending button below.  By clicking on that button, you will be registered for this meeting. 

If you are NOT currently a member on Teamr:  To register for this meeting, simply click on the "Visit Your Team's Official Website" link.  This will take you to the calendar.  Advance to November 4, 2009 and Select the Meeting.  You will then be able to Login to Teamr by setting up a Member Login. 

If you know someone that would like to attend this meeting that did not receive this memo, you may forward this email to them with the instructions that they can register for the meeting using the "Visit Your Team's Official Website" link.  (They cannot register using the attending button since they were not on the "Member List".)

Please contact Ashley Mason at amason@barbercompanies.com if you have problems accessing the Teamr site or need help registering to attend this meeting.