Remediation strategy at a company
'I shall speak strictly off the record as a Project Manager for a sizable
multi-national corporation that shall remain nameless. Their "big iron" is
being converted to SAP R3 one site at a time, and each site is tested as
they go. This effort is SIGNIFICANTLY better than most companies of their
size. Budget: several million dollars (a fraction of 1% of annual
revenues).
However, their official position is NOT to update or replace desktop and
client / server apps until early 1999 -- not one moment sooner. Ditto for
replacement of non-compliant hardware and embedded systems (and they have
quite a few). After all, we mustn't upset the shareholders with
disappointing earnings. Budget: several more million dollars (another
fractional percentage of annual revenues).
Although workable, I am not nearly as pleased by the latter strategy.
Unfortunately, as I understand from other Project Managers with whom I am in
contact, this delayed response is rapidly becoming an unhealthy trend in
certain corporate circles. Budgets are held hostage and hands are securely
bound.
Then again, my contract is up in another month, so I am thankful that I do
not have to be present when employees are mimicking beheaded chickens while
installing software and hardware upgrades during the eleventh hour.
Nevertheless, I shall be carefully monitoring their progress over the
remaining months, offering advice (wanted or otherwise) and moral support.
Small, highly automated organizations may be expected to spend as much as
10% of annual revenues for FY98 and 15% of revenues for FY99. This will be
difficult for some and debilitating for others, depending upon earnings.
Waiting until AFTER 1/1/00 is pure madness! Selling the non-compliant
organization to an unsuspecting buyer is not a viable alternative at his
time. Borrowing to correct deficiencies will become next to impossible for
all be a chosen few.
Ciao,
Scott " hope for the best, but prepared for the worst" Secor
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Subject:
Re: Informal Survey - Y2K and Budgets
Date:
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 02:15:15 -0600
From:
"D. Scott Secor - Millennial Infarction Mitigator" <y2k@uswest.net.NO$PAM>
Organization:
Bon Bahn Communications / The Legacy Group
Newsgroups:
comp.software.year-2000
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