April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 1

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April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 2

The clock continues to tick:

• 633 days to “00”– Less than that for many– Some may have already

experienced an ‘opportunity’

• 15,181 hours• .01% of remaining hours

spent in this session

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 3

Agenda• Housekeeping• Review Atlanta survey results• Year 2000 Compliance Hardware Testing

– Diane Powell, Y2K Infrastructure Program Director, The SABRE Group

• Managing System Interfaces/Test Strategy– Dick Hoffman, Senior Architect, SABRE

Technologies Solutions, The SABRE Group

• Close– How do you want this team to help you?

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 4

Housekeeping• Please complete the attendance roster• Purpose

– The Purpose of the Year 2000 Subcommittee is to increase Year 2000 potential impact awareness throughout the user group and to establish inter-company communications and test plans.

• Subcommittee Co-Chairs– Jane S. Weeks, Holiday Hospitality Corp.

• Year 2000 Program Director

– Max Daniel, The SABRE Group• Project Manager, TPF/VM Infrastructure

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 5

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Results of Informal SurveyAtlanta - October 1997

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 6

Year 2000 Virus Assessment

• Everyone felt their assessment was complete or would be complete by this conference!

• Over half of the projects in coding phase

• Most felt less than 30% of code was infected.

• Most thought their Most thought their hardware was complianthardware was compliant..

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 7

Project Impact

• Most felt Y2K will impact other projects

• Maintenance cost• Most projects >$1MM

– 1 in 4 didn’t know 1 in 4 didn’t know • Staff augmentation

expected by most• Majority felt not

enough time to complete work

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 8

Support

• Most felt they have a Y2K support group.

• 50% felt there are adequate conversion tools.

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 9

Testing• Most projects have formal

test requirements.• Half didn’t know if their

project has a bridging strategy.

• Over half didn’t know Over half didn’t know when their business when their business partners will be compliantpartners will be compliant.

• 3 out of 4 projects will be in testing this year.

April 7, 1998 Year 2000 Subcommittee 10

Next

• Diane Powell– Program Director, Year 2000

Infrastructure, The SABRE Group