Did you miss the fourth Strategic Partner Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach, California during March 2007?  It was the second largest industry event in the world and the largest industry user group with over 130 attendees from 30 Countries.

That Conference was undoubtedly the best yet (click here to read all about it)and so we are already planning the next conference with high hopes of, once again, creating the best networking event of the year.

Below is the draft agenda for 2008 (updated April 15, 2008).  Please note that this is still subject to change.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Time	Topic	Speaker
7:00-8:30PM	Networking Reception and Registration

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Time	Topic	Speaker
8:30-9:00AM	Continental Breakfast – Outline of the days ahead
9:00-10:00AM	SESSION 1:  Meeting the Challenge - Partnerships & Pacesetting	Ian Thomas
10:00-10:30AM	Break / Support Room / Strategic Vendor Partner Booths	Open All Day
10:30-11:30AM	SESSION 2: The Foundations of RS-SQL  - New features since the last Conference	Gayle Havertine
11:30-11:45AM	Coffee Break
11:45-12:45PM	SESSION 3: The O'Neil Advantage - Defend, Extend, Attack!	Ian Thomas
12:45-1:30PM	Networking Lunch / Strategic Vendor Partner Booths
1:30-2:30PM	SESSION 4: Keynote - The Record Management Industry A unique perspective from from the trade association.	Jim Booth, Executive Director, PRISM International
2:30-3:00PM	Break / Support Room / Strategic Vendor Partner Booths	Open All Day
3:00-5:00PM	Record Center Challenge
5:00PM until ...	Dinner

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Time	Topic	Speaker
8:30-9:00AM	Continental Breakfast – Review of Yesterday and Outline of the day ahead
9:00-10:00AM	Session 5A - RSWeb.NET & Imaging on Demand Jayhawk File Express received, imported, indexed, and placed 1500 containers on their shelves in approx. 3 hours. They verified the inventory and began processing orders the next day, from India, for filefolders to be imaged and securely emailed to the customer.  Learn how they did it...	Tyler Conway,  Systems Manager, Jayhawk File Express
9:00-10:00AM	Session 5B - Selling Against The Competition RS-SQL, RSWeb.NET & RSMobile all have features that differentiate you from your competitors.  Learn some of the key areas you can focus on in your sales presentations.	Panel hosted by Rick Jones, Director of Sales, O'Neil Software
9:00-10:00AM	Session 5C - What’s new with RSWeb.NET? In this information packed session we’ll show you how to allow specified web users to be administrators of login accounts for their company so they can manage passwords, account access, function access and more. The new Model User feature will be integrated showing you how easy it now is to make changes to function access, forms, language and other user areas that will trickle down to every user based on that model. Password policies, drop down lists, records retention filtering and much more will be covered. You’ll leave this session ready to take your customers’ web experience to a new level.	Support Team
10:00-10:30AM	Break / Support Room / Strategic Vendor Partner Booths	Open All Day
10:30-11:30AM	Session 6A - Tools for improved efficiency in both time and accuracy when picking At Saracen we are always quick to jump on new features – making the assumption that the new feature is there based upon the feedback and experiences from many companies across the globe. As such we have recently re-written our already robust picking routine to include several new features: Re-Assign and Substitute, Add Related, and most impressive of them all for us is the In Research feature. We immediately saw improved efficiency in both time and accuracy of picks. Also the In Research function and subsequent Suspense List feature gives Customer Service so much more information and control.	Jez Tibbetts, Business Development Manager, Saracen Datastore, UK
10:30-11:30AM	Session 6B - On a Shoestring A "DO WHATEVER IT TAKES" MENTALITY HELPED Rick Kushel 43, and his partners started a document storage company in 1991. With just $5,000 in startup capital, they had to call on their creativity to succeed. Today, the storage system encompasses hard copy storage and web based business process automation solutions. Archive Systems currently boasts more than 500,000 square feet of storage space with sales exceeding $25 million. Rick and his team have raised over $20MM in venture financing to expand operations. In this session, Rick will share some of the lessons he has learned...	Rick Kushel, Executive Chairman, Archive Systems Inc
10:30-11:30AM	Session 6C - RSMobile, I don’t need it…or do I? Are you connected? Not if you aren’t using the Connected Tools menu in RSMobile. Got a remote warehouse where you need to initialize? Then you need RIO to initialize without connecting to the database. Do your people carry around special barcodes to scan an item as not found or use other picking features? Then you need to know about Tap and Hold. Do your customers want to see pickups, validations and workorder information for the visit your driver just made to them, even before your driver returns to the warehouse? Or do you need to send Rush order info to a driver’s scanner, without the need for him to return to the warehouse? GPRS does all this and much more. What do you do when you go to the warehouse to pull one item, but find that there are actually two files/tapes/boxes that should be pulled based on the customer’s request? Or the barcode in the item that matches the Alt Code requested, isn’t the one on the workorder? Manual edits are so yesterday. Add Related, In Research, Substitute and Automated Processing can do it all for you. If you can’t find ways to save more than the cost of the RSMobile scanners, you’re not using all the features at your disposal.	Support Team
11:30-12:00PM	Break / Support Room / Strategic Vendor Partner Booths	Open All Day
12:00-1:15PM	Networking Lunch / Strategic Vendor Partner Booths
1:15-2:15PM	Session 7A - RSMobile & GPRS GPRS is the latest method, introduced into RSMobile, for communicating from anywhere.  The Hill Company was the first O'Neil user in the world to introduce this technology into a live environment.  In this session, James will demonstrate GPRS and explain its business advantages.	James Hill, Managing Director, The Hill Company
1:15-2:15PM	Session 7B - Storing and Managing Other Items with RS-SQL We've all been asked to do it: store furniture, wine or other items and manage them for the client.  Although RS-SQL was designed specifically for records management, with a bit of application it is amazing what you can achieve.  In this session you will see how furniture storage was successfully introduced.	Sam Zulia, Allied InfoTech
1:15-2:15PM	Session 7C - Imaging On Demand Document imaging provides a way for the record center to create images of documents requested by customers. The images are stored directly in the database. Rather than physically delivering the document to the customer, the image can be viewed through RSWeb.NET. To support document imaging, new activity sets and actions have been set up for billing. A new Document Imaging workorder has been created, and invoicing has been updated to include a section for document imaging charges. RSWeb.NET users can now add and edit documents, as well as request images be created from documents. They can then view the image in RSWeb.NET. Come learn about this exciting new product from O’Neil.	Support Team
2:15-2:45PM	Break / Support Room / Strategic Vendor Partner Booths	Open All Day
2:45-3:45PM	Session 8A - RS-SQL and Quality Assurance Winning a large customer is not easy.  The quality checks alone would swamp most companies but you have a huge resource at your fingertips: the O'Neil Software Manuals.  In this session, learn how they helped a customer pass a difficult audit.	John Miller, Westex Document Management
2:45-3:45PM	Session 8B - Topic be announced	Bob Wilson, Storage Plus by Five R, Inc.
2:45-3:45PM	Session 8C - Planning for software upgrades and infrastructure changes. In this session our most senior O’Neil support team members cover everything from nuts to bolts; moving passwords when you move your database, changing versions of SQL Server and what to expect, 32bit vs. 64bit servers, smoothly upgrading your RS-SQL software and your database, considerations when planning infrastructure changes and much more. You will benefit from this session whether you are technically oriented or not.	Support Team
3:45-4:00PM	Coffee Break
4:00-5:00PM	Partnerships, Pacesetting & Prizes	Ian Thomas