MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Our next New England IRES User Group meeting will be Wednesday, November 4^th, 2009 at the offices of The Dolben Company in Woburn MA, from 1pm to 5pm.

The agenda for this meeting includes the following sessions: 1) Corporate Portal solutions: 3 vendors, AssetEye, 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 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 User Group Business below for more details.

Meeting Information and Agenda

How to Sponsor your User Group

If you have not become a member and would desire to, please send your 2009 User Group dues contribution check for $100 made payable to IRES User Group, Inc., to the following address:  Anne Rogan, Capital Properties, 31 St. James Ave. Suite 270, Boston, MA  02116.  If you require an invoice for the annual dues, please email Anne at arogan@capprop.com or call at (617) 542-2500.  You may also bring your dues payment to the meeting.

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IRES Product Roadmap Update

Mike Bates from IRES will present the current product roadmap, with a detailed update on what's coming out in Service Pack 5 for version 4.0, to be released in Spring 2010. In addition, Mike will review where IRES is at 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 cable of consolidating and presenting key business metrics and information from disparate 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:

Greg Sherman will demonstrate the AssetEye portfolio management platform that leverages MRI and other data.

http://www.asseteye.com

Sandy Jacolow, Executive Director of Calvis will demonstrate their corporate portal solution that leveraged Microsoft Sharepoint Server.

http://www.realfuse.com

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

http://datexmedia.com/

UserGroup 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

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 know someone that would like to attend this meeting, and they did not receive this invite, please forward this e-mail to them.  They will need to click on the "Visit Your Team's Official Website" link below to register for the meeting.  They cannot use the "Attending" button to register for the meeting, as they are not currently on the email distribution list.