Elections Canada Awards Year 2000 Contract To Agiss
09/25/97
Canada NewsWire
(Copyright Canada NewsWire 1997)
OTTAWA, Sept. 25 /CNW/ - AGISS Software Corporation (NASDAQ BB: AGCR)
announced today it has been awarded a contract by the office of the Chief Electoral
Officer of Elections Canada to complete a Year 2000 impact assessment.
The contract calls for the provision of professional services to develop an
inventory of Election Canada's information technology assets, to conduct a
high-level assessment of the impact of the millenium change on the operations of
Elections Canada, and to develop an overall strategy and approach to resolving the
Year 2000 problem.
Mr. Scott Feagan, the President of AGISS Software Corporation stated ``The award
of this contract by Elections Canada to AGISS indicates that our
REMEDY2000(TM) methodology is able to provide our clients with a means of
assessing their year 2000 problem and arriving at a comprehensive approach to
solving it. We are confident that once this initial contract is completed, we will also
be able to provide Elections Canada with the tools and services needed to complete
their remediation efforts.'' He went on to say, ``This contract is indicative of the
business we see moving forward. AGISS was selected from a strong group of the
Canadian Y2K players.''
Elections Canada is the non-partisan agency responsible for the conduct of federal
elections for all of Canada. Its prime task is to be prepared at all times to administer
an electoral event. The federal agency carries out all the planning, organization,
direction and monitoring of federal elections, by-elections and referenda. Between
electoral events, the agency employs a core group of about 225 staff at two
locations in Ottawa. For an event, the agency calls on the services of about 150,000
support staff in 301 electoral districts throughout the country.
AGISS has developed REMEDY2000(TM), a year 2000 methodology tailored to the
conversion of existing software applications residing an IBM MVS, DIGITAL VMS,
UNIX, BULL and UNISYS computer systems to fix the millenium bug.
AGISS SOFTWARE CORPORATION is a leading provider of automated
conversion tools and services to solve the Year 2000 problem across many different
platforms. Its Canadian methodology for correcting the ``millennium'' problem is
called REMEDY2000(TM) and is marketed worldwide. AGISS is a wholly owned
subsidiary of AGISS Corporation a NASDAQ OTC BB company.
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