Quest International Users Group
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- This article discusses the Oracle Users Group. For other meanings see Quest (disambiguation)Quest (disambiguation)A quest is a journey toward a goal, frequently used as a plot device in fictional works.Quest or The Quest may also refer to:-Computing:* Quest Development, a software company, primarily associated with Symantec...
Quest International Users Group (Quest) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting users of JD Edwards and PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided Human Resource Management Systems , Financial Management Solutions , Supply Chain and customer relationship management software, as well as software solutions for manufacturing, enterprise performance management, and student administration to large...
applications. It is an Oracle User Group
Oracle User Group
An Oracle User Group is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and education for users of Oracle Corporation technology, particularly for professional users, however student user groups have also been established....
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It is part of the International Oracle User Group Community which also includes the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
Quest was formed in 1995 with the blessings and support of Ed McVaney
C. Edward McVaney
C. Edward McVaney was the co-founder and former CEO of the JD Edwards Corporation, a pioneering Enterprise Resource Planning company purchased by PeopleSoft in 2002. PeopleSoft, in turn was purchased by Oracle Corporation in January 2005.-Early life:McVaney was born in Omaha, Nebraska, December...
, one of the founders of JD Edwards. The goal was to provide users a community to not only vent their frustrations but to also provide candid feedback for improving JDE products. JD Edwards was acquired by PeopleSoft in 2003, and in 2005 Oracle acquired PeopleSoft. Since Oracle supported a user-group model with organizations such as OAUG and IOUG, Quest became an entity on-par with OAUG and IOUG under the banner of the IOUC.
Today Quest continues to support JD Edwards and PeopleSoft users, and is one of the three sponsors, along with IOUG and OAUG, of the yearly conference COLLABORATE.