This memo is to announce the development of a new firm-wide software
system. We are currently building a data center that will contain all
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 a secretary say to me "I'm a little nervous, 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."
A bit crude but funny...
system. We are currently building a data center that will contain all
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 a secretary say to me "I'm a little nervous, 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."
A bit crude but funny...
