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Subject: [CA Gen General Discussion] European User Group Meetings March 2014
From March 15 through March 29, 2014, Dan Short (the CA Gen Product Manager) and I (the CA Gen Product Owner) traveled northern Europe and attended the following user group meetings as well as meeting with various individual customers:
* BeNeLux User Group on the 18th
* Danish User Group on the 20th
* German User Group on the 26th
* Finnish User Group on the 27th
We were well received and there seemed to be a lot of excitement about the amount of focus that CA Gen is receiving from CA management due to the recent organization changes as well as the latest releases and features being added to the product.
One of the most fun things that we did at the meetings was to allow the participants to "vote" on ideas that we taped to the walls of the meeting rooms (see attached pictures). We gave each person five post-it notes and they were allowed to use those notes on one or more of the ideas (or they could use them to create new ideas as well). Although this is definitely not a scientific approach to finding out what you, as the customers, would really like, the exercise did bear some interesting fruit. Out of the 58 ideas that were on the wall, 46 got votes but the following 12 got the most (the total number of votes is the number at the beginning and note that this is across the four user group meetings as well as a couple of customer meetings):
* 36 Add Filtering on Dialog Boxes
* 27 Generate Action Blocks as Stored Procedures
* 22 Generate SQL Statements as Stored Procedures
* 19 Display Statement Numbers in the Action Diagram
* 19 Allow IN and BETWEEN Relational Operations in IF Statements
* 14 Allow Default Business System to be User Selectable Following Download
* 13 Support Changing an Existing Table's Primary Index
* 12 Dynamically Allocate Group Views
* 11 Unicode Data Type
* 11 SQL Server 2012
* 11 Implement Incremental Subsetting on the Host Encyclopedia
* 11 Filter Views in SET Statement at the Attribute Level
Please respond to this post if you have more pictures, if you attended the meetings and would like to comment on them, or if you have any comments/questions about the top rated (or other) ideas. Note that we did this voting in anticipation of getting the Ideation functionality on the EDGE community site and if/when that functionality is available, all of the ideas that were voted on will be used to initialize that functionality. We will also be using this information to help CA Gen decide what things should be worked on next (from the looks of things, dialog box filters and stored procedures are going to be right up there).
Thanx to everyone who was able to attend and special thanx to all that made this trip possible.
Posted by:JCarter
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