President's Message
Welcome to the end Summer
'09! With summer vacations behind us and the Labor Day
weekend here, I wanted to take just a moment to look forward to
fall. Connections '09 is upon us, and we hope that you are
going to be joining us! We know that Credit Unions have slowed down
on travel to help in the expense department, so if you have had to
cut back to one conference a year as some have, we hope that it is
Connections and that you'll be joining us with one of your most
valuable strategic partners to see what the rest of this year has
to offer, and to see what is coming in the next year. We know
you will like what you see. Don't forget to register for the
User's Group Luncheon - it will fill up fast and is a great forum
for your thoughts and ideas!
Another event that we are looking forward to seeing you at is
the networking event sponsored by the Executive Committee. In
the spirit of fiscal responsibility, we are changing the format of
this year's networking event to be a more local, social type
of event. We'll have a location to ourselves to gather
and renew old friendships, so be sure to join us - stop by Booth 58
for all of the details and to register!
The next major release of the New Year is just around the
corner. Version 2009.2 is in Beta testing. There's a
lot of content in the new release, including some items that the
user community submitted. Ultra-Access is also seeing some
enhancements, adding further .NET enhancements
and additional user tweaking including timeouts
and other features. There are also new CMS upgrades that will
be released in this version as well. Check out the UltraData
System website for more details on what is coming in this major
update.
Again we bid a fond farewell to Summer
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and we hope to see all of you at Connections!
Jeff Walter
President
