Florida Power and Light'
'Assessment 79% complete, renovation 17% complete
Replace
Applications being replaced to improve functionality will include Year
2000 compliance in design and development
Examples:Trouble Call Management System, Revenue Facilities
Management System, General Accounting.
Renovate
By outsourcing to service providers/consultants/experts, corporate
systems staff, local business unit staff, or vendors of application
software
Procurement systems, inter-utility billing systems, some financial
systems, load management system
Customer information and billing system
Power plant maintenance systems in both nuclear and fossil
generation business units
Payroll system, Inventory systems
Retire
Remove applications no longer used
Expect to complete in 1998 except for some replacements carrying into 1999
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Embedded systems:
' Assessment 14% complete, renovation 1% complete
Methodology
Generate inventory from internal systems and walkdowns
In parallel, obtain Y2K statements from vendors
Match inventory to vendor statements
For Y2K compliant, prepare/execute test plan
For Y2K non-compliant, prepare/execute plan to fix and test
Selectively use service providers/consultants/experts to assist
Power plant inventories and system component testing
Assessment for power delivery, distribution and telecommunication
Nuclear embedded system component testing
Renovation work dependent on outages will continue into 1999
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