Terry:
Maybe you would like develop some kind of KPI for boards descisions creation and maintenance. for example:
* after X number of discussions on same topic(ultrasound, motor testing, JDE CMMS) the topic earns the right of a individual board?
* Once created, a board is maintained if generates Y number of new discussions per month?

But then, what to do with a board that gets "inactive" after created? Send the discussions back to the "Other ..." board?

As I understand it there are a number of Oracle variants:
1. Oracle e-Business Suite
2. Oracle Enterprise
3. Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (not the same as JD Edwards??)
I'm interested in Number 3 as our company alredy has implemented the financials and HR. Are there any end-users of that one?

My company uses EnterpriseOne for our CMMS. I would like to benchmark with others using this product. Originally, our company was going to use EnterpriseOne for our ERP system, but then we switched directions and went with SAP. We in the maintenance group are still not sure if the company plans to put us on SAP PM or if we will remain using EnterpriseOne for the long term. We've been using it close to 3 years now. I really disliked it at first, but have grown with it.

I think that eventually your company will force all departments to use the same system and avoid having Maintenance in one system and Finance, Procurement, etc in other.

We are beginning the Oracle EAM implementation right now. We will use it for all our CMMS needs. I have a system called Maintimizer which will be phased out since our business is highly integrated with Oracle systems globally. I plan on needing a lot of custom screens programmed to get what I want, but that should not be a problem since we have several Oracle programmers on staff.