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Thursday March 11, 8:59 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Year 2000 Wire/CTSI Opens International Y2K Center
New Facility Will Help Lagging Organizations Make Jan. 1 Deadline
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 1999-- Fresh from his appearance on
Dr. Ed Yardeni's T-Minus 300 Days
Conference, Y2K authority Michael P. Harden, Ph.D., President and CEO of
Century Technology Services, Inc. announced his
firm's opening of the Year 2000 International Research and Conversion Center
(IRCC). The Center's mission is to assist US and
International companies and organizations, foreign governments, and domestic
government agencies that are lagging behind in their
drive to become fully Y2K-compliant before January 1, 2000.
Dr. Harden, who was the first non-government expert called upon to testify,
with John Koskinen, before the House Subcommittee on Government Management,
Information, and Technology, and the House Subcommittee on Technology about
the Year 2000 problem, says that the Center was created because a large
segment of the IT market --particularly outside the United States -- is
significantly behind in resolving the Y2K problem. He has recently traveled
to Europe, Asia
and South America to meet with business leaders and government officials to
discuss their Y2K efforts and assess their needs.
''The Center allows us to achieve tremendous economies of scale in order to
provide a quick and effective solution for these troubled corporate and
government
organizations,'' Dr. Harden says.
Four hundred percent larger than CTSI's previous operation, the IRCC
utilizes a Windows NT Client server environment whose architecture is based
on functional
components, complemented by a dedicated T1 line for faster service to
clients via the Internet. The overall systems design streamlines the
incremental processes
used as the building blocks of CTSI's Y2K product lines.
''The Center implements the best commercial Y2K tools available, along with
our own patented Low Impact Expansion(TM) solution, for use in assessing,
converting and validating our clients' software programs,'' Dr. Harden says.
''Our rapidly growing embedded-systems business and its massive data
repository of
compliance information is also housed in the IRCC.''
Kathleen Gallagher, CTSI's Vice President of Operations explains that,
unlike traditional Y2K factories, the IRCC doesn't simply take in non-
compliant code and
remediate it.
''The IRCC provides a wide range of services including sending experienced
people to client locations throughout the world. It currently employs 40
engineers
traveling worldwide to perform embedded-systems surveys and IV&V work,'' Ms.
Gallagher says. ''We have a cadre of qualified facility and biomedical
engineers
available to assist in infrastructure and hospital embedded systems
projects.''
The Center also houses CTSI's PC/Network Division, its Supply Chain Auditing
Service, a research group and a training facility. It currently has a staff
of 75
people, with built-in capacity to expand quickly to 200. In designing the
IRCC, CTSI has drawn from its experience in performing Y2K projects for
clients such as
the US Army, the US Navy, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US
Department of the Interior, the Republic of Argentina, Starwood Hotels and
First
National Bank of Maryland.
''As an active, full-service Y2K company, we have learned a lot about
solving the Y2K problem over the last three years,'' Dr. Harden comments.
''Through the
Center we are leveraging that knowledge to work smarter and faster for the
benefit of our clients.''
One of the few companies worldwide to receive patents on Y2K solutions and
tools, Century Technology Services, Inc. is a privately held corporation
involved in
researching, developing and providing Y2K solutions on a licensing or
direct-support basis. CTSI's solutions cover information technology, desktop
systems and
embedded systems. CTSI's web site is www.ctsi2000.com. CTSI's address and
phone number are 2730 Prosperity Avenue, Suite 250, Fairfax, VA 22031, (703)
289-4100.
Contact:
Century Technology Services, Inc., Fairfax
Michael Harden, 703/289-4101 |
