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The Y2K problem presents special challenges to servicers. The complex web of interactions at the heart of servicing makes the compliance challenge acute. Standard & Poor's is monitoring closely how [...]

It's midnight, 12/31/99. Will your computer turn into a pumpkin? Picture, if you will, a lunch meeting between a client and his computer consultant. We will call the client Scott [...]

No matter what computer systems do, food industry has a Year 2000 problem. The year 2000 problem isn't just for religious cults and survivalists anymore. Lately such pillars of society [...]

As the year 2000 fast approaches, companies all over the world are scrambling to update their computer systems to avoid the potential major difficulties due to the Y2K issue. As [...]

Click onto any Year 2000 (Y2K) web site and you'll see a clock counting down the days, hours and minutes until the year 2000. Overly dramatic? Maybe, but it serves [...]

Imagine it is 8 a.m. on January 3, 2000, in a busy police department containing many officers returning to work after the holidays. They begin the day by turning on [...]

The potential for 'year 2000' (Y2K) problems is found wherever there is software. These include payroll programs, hourly time-clocks, building security computers, and other applications shared across many industries; these […]

Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility has taken the Y2K threat very seriously and implemented a project to prevent computer collapses and interruptions. Anchorage is a mid-size, modern city with approximately [...]

This study examines methods and evaluates progress made by state and local governments in addressing Year 2000 problems. Public and private organizations alike are busy managing the threat of operational [...]

Unless your organization records its transactions on notepads, calculates its figures on an abacus, and illuminates its offices by candlelight, you're probably preparing for Y2K. As crusaders against risk, internal [...]

With NERC leading electrics, and FERC advising gas, software conversion efforts seem headed on different tacks. "We are the world's experts on contingencies," boasted Michehl Ghent, president of the North [...]

Viewed from the perspective of implementation, industry reform is fundamentally an IT event, even if the regulators haven't yet noticed. ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS ARE HEAVILY DEPENDENT ON computers and communications. [...]

With January 1, 2000 rapidly approaching, government officials and health care consultants detail the problems and the fixes you face. If you think you have plenty of time to get [...]

A) The end of the world as we know it; B) An overwrought doomsday scenario that's been blown way out of proportion; C) Someone else's problem (we hope); D) A [...]

As Jan. 1,2000 draws closer, most people have some notion of what is meant by the statement "the Y2K problem." Total unawareness is not the same problem it was two [...]

'If everything seems to be going according to plan, you can be certain you've overlooked something.'(1) To business people in Hong Kong, nothing significant has changed since the political hand-over [...]

Clock ticks on Year 2000 problem, but most still can squash the bug. With the snowballing hype surrounding 'The Year 2000 Problem,' it's easy for many companies to dismiss it [...]

If testing your systems for Y2K compliance takes 60 percent of the entire project's time, is there any way you can be ready? By now, you know the Year 2000 [...]

The new millennium represents a potential migraine of mega proportion for associations whose electronic records and systems aren't ready to respond. The good news is, there's still time to prepare. [...]

One little computer glitch could bring many daily activities to a screeching halt come midnight January 1, 2000. The accounting profession, and its clients, are certain to feel some whiplash. [...]

FDIC's Nick Ketcha, to put it plainly, was ticked. Speaking at a recent industry gathering, he referred to a letter sent to bank clients by an insurance provider. The letter [...]

As time gets short, the testing phase of the year-2000 fix process will be the first to be neglected. But it's a bad idea to put heavily modified code into […]

Do you know if your company's computer systems - including your HR systems - are year-2000 compliant? If you don't know, you need to find out. Because in two years, [...]

Getting ready for the next millennium. While many different kinds of software are affected by the Year 2000 problem (Y2K), accounting applications are probably the most severely affected and also [...]

Evaluating your accounting software for Year 2000 compliance is a critical first step in assuring that January 1, 2000, will not be a disaster for your business. What year follows [...]

There are several ways to replace the code that threatens to corrupt your systems on Dec. 31, 1999. But none of them are quick fixes. And the best one for […]

They must find out now how their computer hardware and software systems respond, otherwise it's like playing Russian roulette. Friday night: Each of the national network news programs has a [...]

Preparing for Contingencies Almost everyone in the transportation community is very familiar with the year 2000 problem, or 'Y2K.' Computer systems around the world have been tested, and many Y2K-related [...]

Enabling computer networks to triangulate the euro was the 800-pound information technology gorilla that sat on the 1998 calendars of many organizations. And the millennium bug is still crawling across [...]

WILL THE COMING OF THE MILLENNIUM BE DISASTROUS OR NONEVENTFUL FOR LIBRARIES AND THEIR SYSTEMS? Scenario 1: The Year 2000 has finally arrived, but the library world, like many other [...]

Will the world end if your firm's computers can't meet the immovable Year 2000 deadline? Or can you profit by knowing your limitations? Most companies have looked at the Y2K [...]

Understanding and knowledge coupled with concerted organizational effort are needed to meet and beat the challenges associated with the Y2K bug. The Year 2000 (Y2K) problem is similar to an [...]

Because many people haven't added Y2K to their personal worry agenda as yet, the public outcry has yet to be heard. A business executive has a special digital clock on [...]

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It dwarfs your worst nightmare about 'forgetting' to study for a monster exam. The millennium bug--the trouble caused when date-sensitive software and computer chips fail to recognize the year 2000--is [...]

Cable operators wondering about how the widely publicized 'Year 2000' problem will affect them had better take action soon. The millennium rollover will affect cable systems, but probably not disastrously, [...]

The year 2000 dilemma has become a part of the business world's lexicon. Poor planning and a short-sighted cost-saving measure 30 years ago in mainframe computer programming are wreaking the […]

Is your company up to speed in getting salary into employees' pockets? Companies' payroll departments face numerous issues that must be addressed to ensure that employees are paid, contractual obligations [...]

Calculating years after 1999. Are electronic spreadsheet programs ready for the next millennium? That depends on the definition of "ready." The two major spreadsheet programs--Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3--certainly re [...]

How to put the years where they belong. Early in the 1970s, mainframe computers at many banks, securities firms and insurance companies began to generate unexpected errors when they calculated [...]

Rick Flagler, information systems manager at Miniature Precision Bearings Corp., says he originally 'freaked out' at his year 2000 problem. He also freaked out over a consulting firm's $2 million […]