- This memo is to announce the development of a new firm-wide software
system. We are currently building a data center that will contain all firm
data that is Year 2000 compliant. The program is referred to as the "Millennia
Year Application Software System" (MYASS).
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- Next Monday at 9:00 there will be a meeting in which I will show
MYASS to everyone. We will continue to hold demonstrations throughout the
month so that all employees will have an opportunity to get a good look
at MYASS. As for the status of the implementation of the program, I have
not addressed the networking aspects so currently only one person at a
time can use MYASS. This restriction will be removed after MYASS
expands.
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- Several people are using the program already and have come to depend
on it. Just this morning I walked into a subordinate's office and was not
surprised to find that he had his nose buried in MYASS. I've noticed that
some of the less technical personnel are somewhat afraid of MYASS. Just
last week, when asked to enter some information into
- the program, I had a secretary say to me "I'm a little nervous,
I've never put anything in MYASS before." I volunteered to help her
through her first time and when we were through she admitted that it was
relatively painless and she was actually looking forward to doing it again.
She went so far as to say that after using SAP and Oracle, she was ready
to kiss MYASS.
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- I know there are concerns over the virus that was found in MYASS
upon initial installation, but I am pleased to say the virus has been eliminated
and we were able to save MYASS. In the future, however, protection will
be required prior to entering MYASS. We planned this database to encompass
all information associated with the business. So as you begin using the
program, feel free to put anything you want into MYASS. As MYASS grows
larger, we envision a time when it will be commonplace to walk by an office
and see a manager hand a paper to an employee and say "Here, stick
this in MYASS".
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- This program has already demonstrated great benefit to the company
during recent OSHA and EPA audits. After requesting certain historical
data the agency
- representatives were amazed at how quickly we provided the information.
When asked how the numbers could be retrieved so rapidly our Environmental
Manager proudly stated "Simple, I just pulled them out of MYASS."
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