M E M O R A N D U M
TO: All Employees
FROM: Director of Information
Services
SUBJECT: Millennia Year
Application Software System
This memo is to announce the
development of a new company-wide software
system. We are currently building a data center that will contain
all
Company data that is Year 2000 compliant. The program is referred
to as the
"Millennia Year Application Software System" (MYASS).
Next Monday at 9:00am 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. 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,
since 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.
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 handa paper to an employee and say "Here, stick this
in MYASS".
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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