RE: Greetings for 1998 from Nexgen! Repl -- BPCS-L


Thanks for your response Glenn.

To answer your questions:

1.  You ask: This being the 10th might indicate that the BPCS community is slow
 to act on Year 2000  matters.?

 Answer: Yes indeed we have noticed that parts of the BPCS community are
 a bit sluggish on the Y2K issue.  After talking to literally hundreds of BPCS
 users, we have found that a surprising number still expect that SSA is going
 to deliver some kind of cheap, painless solution (certainly not V6.x) to solve
 the Y2K problem maybe even at the last minute. It should be clear by now
 that this is not going to happen.

 While SSA is declaring victory on V6.x in terms of new customer sales, even its
 own reports show that V6 upgrades for its current install base are very, very 
few.
 As well, it doesn't take long for veteran BPCS end-users realize that BPCS-CD 
is
 only useful to a very narrow segment of the installed base (basically those on 
4.x with
 no modifications) and that the Millennium Toolkit is so weak that it exists 
merely
 as a token member of some intended "complete offering".

 So in light of the fact that there is a lack of understanding or perhaps a 
little
 delusional thinking by certain parts of the BPCS community, we consider 10
 live sites (and >80 in progress) to be significant penetration.  Reports of 
live,
 completed Y2K implementations are few and far between in the AS/400 
marketplace.
 You can often hear the other Y2K vendors making statements like "...<our 
customer>
 is scheduled to be done in 1998" or "...<our customer> now has the information 
needed
 to intelligently plan..<yadda> <yadda> <yadda>".

 Nexgen puts it customers in a much better position.  It is true that we sell
 the best tools in the industry for BPCS Y2K compliance.  But when our customers
 contract with us, it is more than just a software sale.  The buy a clear 
picture that
 includes the endpoint of their Y2K project.  Our live customers will confirm 
this
 point.

 Getting the BPCS Y2K project DONE is what makes the Nexgen solution so unique
 and successful.

2.  Your other question:   What is the difference between no problems and 11 
minor issues?
       [which by itself is a fairly good story to tell]

 Answer: Let me refine the account of the cutover results by showing them as a 
schedule:

 New Years Holiday (Jan 1-2) Cutover (database conversion, environment 
migration,etc)

 Sunday (Jan 4:3rd shift)  MFG went live on Y2K enabled BPCS

 Monday-Wednesday All company functions (MFG,DIST,FIN) using
 (Jan 5-7:all shifts) Y2K enabled BPCS -- 11 issues reported and corrected 
during
    these three days. (printer output, work file missing, level-check, etc)

 Thursday-Wednesday All company functions using Y2K enabled BPCS
 (Jan 8-14:all shifts) -- no issues reported -- all functions working properly

 Hope this makes more sense

 Regards,

 Dan Mitchell
 mitchell@mail.nexgeninfo.com

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Sent: Friday, January 16, 1998 9:28 AM
To: Mitchell, Dan
Cc: BPCS-L
Subject: Re: Greetings for 1998 from Nexgen!

JMHO
Dan while I feel this is a wonderful experience you have shared. It is
inappropriate  for a forum that  generally prohibits advertisements.

Congratulations on your success-
  What is the difference  between no  problems ad 11 minor issues?
       [ which  by  itself is a fairly good story to tell]

This being the 10th might indicate that the BPCS community is slow
 to act on Year 2000  matters.?
Glenn
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AS/400 & Year 2000- - Solutions Specialists
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At 10:45 PM 1/15/98 +0000, you wrote:
>
>The forum has been so slow lately that we thought there was room
>enough to add some material that might even be a little self-serving.
>We think its pretty big news.
>
>Nexgen has just taken its 10th Y2K conversion site LIVE using Focus/2000!
>
>LIVE means that they're running their businesses on the Nexgen
>                                    ==================
>century-enabled classic BPCS versions (2.0 through 5.1).
>
>Most importantly -- most of these sites had MAJOR modifications and
>custom code that Nexgen's Focus/2000 tool corrected with relative ease.
>
>Another Successful Implementation:
>==========================
>Truth Hardware in Minnesota went live with their "Nexgen-powered",
>highly-customized BPCS 3.0 system over New Year's holiday weekend.
>
>Consider these facts:
>1) Truth's mammoth implementation had over 8000 objects only
>    a fraction of which originally came from SSA
>2) The Nexgen Y2K services project was bid at under 4 man-months
>    and came in under budget
>3) As of Day #3 after cutover and to-date (Day #12), there were no
>    additional problems reported or open
>4) In the three days after going live, a total of only -11- minor issues
>    were reported and corrected by Nexgen all with same-day turnaround
>5) Truth is done with their BPCS Year 2000 project.
>
>THIS IS THE TYPICAL CUTOVER (TO LIVE) EXPERIENCE FOR
>NEXGEN FOCUS/2000 CUSTOMERS!!!
>
>The point is that if you have a modified BPCS site, no other
>approach comes close to Nexgen's Focus/2000 for speed,
>thoroughness, and cost-effectiveness in Y2K enablement.
>
>With over 115 sites implementing Focus/2000 worldwide we have a
>world-class reference base ready to back-up our claims.
>
>*  Also: Call us to find out more about our new Focus/A2K product
>   for making native Y2K corrections to AS/SET data models and
>   programs -- this is the only complete Y2K solution for AS/SET!
>
>For more information, or to be put in touch with a Nexgen reference
>please contact:
>
> Dan Mitchell
> Nexgen/2K
> e-mail:  mitchell@mail.nexgeninfo.com
> voice:    (630) 778-2530
>
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