Millennia Year Application Software System
MEMO
To: All Employees
From: Director of Information Services
Subject: Millennia Year Application Software System
This memo is to announce the development of a new
firm-wide software
system. We are currently building a data center that
will contain
firm data that is Year 2000 compliant. The program is
referred to as
the "Millennia Year Application Software
System" (MYASS).
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.
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 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 hand
a 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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