How serious a problem will your software systems face on January 1, 2000? Will the year 2000 seriously impede your ability to do business or will it only cause you minor system problems? Before you begin a major Year 2000 project, Concept Five Technologies will help you understand both the potential impact of the Year 2000 problem on your business functions and how much you need to budget for planning, remediation, and testing. When you begin your Year 2000 project, Concept Five has the people, tools, and methodology to help you arrive at a total solution for your Year 2000 needs.

The Concept Five Difference

Concept Five Technologies is an information technology company that builds on nearly 40 years of experience working with federal, state and local governments. Our staff have supported the development and modernization of some of the world's largest, most secure information systems. Concept Five now offers the commercial marketplace the expertise of skilled professionals, objective analyses, and solution-driven strategies.

Leveraging our project management and technical experience and expertise together with a sophisticated multi-language toolset, we will provide you comprehensive Year 2000 project support for project planning, implementation, and testing.

Project Planning

Our experienced staff of system analysts will evaluate the business and technical issues you face in order to achieve Year 2000 compliance. Using our Year 2000 Risk Assessment Methodology together with automated analyses of your application programs, we evaluate the severity, scope, and likelihood of date processing failures in your application software. Based on our assessment, we help you prioritize your needs and recommend a remediation solution that is tailored to your systems and the resources you want to apply from your organization. We then work closely with you to develop a plan that coordinates the changes you require across the large number of inter-dependent applications in your inventory in order to minimize impact on your business processes.

Implementation

Concept Five has assembled sophisticated multi-language tools to help our customers cost-effectively fix their application source code. The task of finding all date relevant source code can be a daunting one. Many of today's Year 2000 tools only identify dates that follow standard naming conventions (e.g., having "DATE" in their name). These tools fail to identify all date related changes.

Concept Five's tools rely on sophisticated data flow analysis techniques that ensure comprehensive identification of non-compliant source code. Our tools detect difficult to find date sensitive code and will provide your remediation team with the detailed information they require to make all the changes required to make your applications Year 2000 compliant. Fixing your code right the first time will save you money in the long term.

Testing

A sound testing strategy is crucial in order to ensure that your critical applications will function correctly after January 1, 2000. Concept Five will work with your staff to develop a comprehensive Year 2000 test plan to ensure that the converted code is both Year 2000 compliant and has not introduced new problems. In order to comprehensively assess your application's Year 2000 compliance, Concept Five has enumerated a set of test scenarios which cover the range of functionality an application performs in processing date information. These test scenarios will be adapted to test the specific functionality of your applications.

For More Information

Visit our web site at: http://www.concept5.com

or Contact:

Lester J. Holtzblatt
Director, Software Analysis Services
617-229-5318

[email protected]

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