Spring 2010

The INDEPENDENT user group for users of CODA's DREAM accounting software.

Our Spring 2010 meeting was held at the Zoological Society of London (London Zoo) on Thursday 27th May 2010.

A healthy 39 delegates registered to attend and of those, 34 actually attended, a proportion better than most previous meetings.

The plenary sessions were:

Focussing on Excel - Part 1

Electronic Document Management

Report 7 Update

Focussing on Excel - Part 2

Web Expenses

Dream 3.4 News

We didn't get time to demo the DUG software, because a couple of other sessions over-ran.

As well as the usual welcome and website update, attendees had the opportunity to wander round the Zoo at the end of the day.

Chris Stedham won the Top Hat champagne prize, for submitting the most Known Problem Reports since the last meeting.

We are very much indebted to Mike Booty for all the preparatory work he did for the meeting, and for his presentation. Same goes for Sam Raven.

Simon Miles lost a Dell laptop power adaptor at this meeting. If anyone has one they might have acquired by accident at the meeting, please let us know!

Philip Taylor gave his apologies for the meeting.

CODA didn't reply to our invitation, which was a shame, but we were joined by Roger Martin of Ecom Software.

Feedback from delegates (out of 5) was:

	Four sessions received under 4.0;
	Only one (Report 7, or more correctly Insight BI) received 4.2.

A big thanks to Graham Reardon of ISG for his presentation.

The Focussing on Excel Part 2 session was quite rightly marked down - more preparation required I feel...

The presentations we have in soft copy are available in the members' website in the Spring 2010 meeting data folder.

Feedback about the meeting itself from attendees was:

	The venue received an average score of 3.7 (out of 5) - down 0.7
	The catering received an average score of 4.0 (out of 5) - up 0.2
	The location received an average score of 3.6 (out of 5) - same
	The organisation received an average score of 3.4 (out of 5) - down 0.8
	The event format received an average score of 3.4 (out of 5) - down 1.0

It appears to have been a less popular venue than we would have expected. One anonymous feedback form marked the event right down.

Users expressed the view that we need more user presentations, and we will try to do that for the next meeting.

Members at the meeting.