Forecross® Corporation (OTCBB-FRXX), a legacy
and Year 2000 solution company, announced today the completion of a major Y2K project for
one of its clients, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company (BBH&Co.). The project
involved over two dozen applications critical to the operations of BBH&Co.. Forecross
used its Complete/2000® automated software and services to analyze and make Year 2000
compliant approximately 17,000,000 lines of source code written in three different
languages and running on two different hardware platforms. The last application was
implemented in production earlier this month.
"This is the culmination of almost four years of planning and hard work by Brown
Brothers," said Bill Anderson, Chief Information Officer of BBH&Co. "Our Y2K
team has been in place since early 1996. This was a very complex project-we first had to
upgrade all of our "system-related" software to Y2K ready versions. This
included mainframe operating systems, development environments, compilers and
corresponding utilities. In the hardware area, we upgraded all non-compliant CPUs, client
workstations and communication equipment with new equipment that's been certified as Y2K
ready by the manufacturer and tested by our
core team."
For their applications source code, BBH&Co.'s Y2K Project consisted of four phases 1)
Impact and Assessment, 2) Renovation, 3) User Acceptance Testing, and 4) Implementation.
These applications run on a variety of enterprise, client-server and PC platforms for a
diverse group of user areas and had to be melded into a comprehensive Year 2000 plan.
"Because of all these issues, we decided to supplement our internal staff with the
services of an experienced software conversion vendor," indicated Rick Berk,
Department Head, Enterprise Systems at BBH&Co. "We selected San Francisco-based
Forecross Corporation for the high degree of automation in their tool sets as well as for
their history of success in large-scale conversion projects. Forecross has experience in
both legacy Migrations and Year 2000 renovation. Their automated tools not only dealt with
the Y2K issues in our code, but upgraded it when required to operate under COBOL LE 370
for MVS. Forecross was able to deliver renovated and upgraded application source code in
mid-July, ahead of our original schedules, which allowed plenty of time for testing."
BBH&Co. involved over 150 different internal user departments to test for application
functionality involving both pre-2000 and post-2000 data and test situations. Rick Berk
indicated, "User representatives from each BBH&Co. functional business area
participated in the building and execution of test scripts, including the verification of
results. These results were reviewed by our Quality Assurance area prior to the
implementation of the renovated code into our production environment." Berk
continued, "Additionally, our internal audit staff worked closely with the Y2K team
and with user representatives throughout the entire process." During 1998,
BBH&Co. also conducted tests with a number of their clients who have customized
point-to-point communications links with BBH&Co. These tests focused on the entire
"life of a trade" cycle.
"The planning and the hard work paid off," remarked Bill Anderson.
"Completing this project in early 1999 allows us to be ahead of the game in resolving
our Year 2000 issues."
About Forecross Year 2000 Solutions
Forecross provides automated solutions for all phases of year 2000 projects
including assessment, renovation and independent verification and validation (IV&V). A
variety of languages are supported by Complete/2000® and
Confirm/2000sm including COBOL, CA-ADS, APS, C, C++, CSP,
CA-Easytrieve, CA-IDEAL, IMSADF II, PL/I, PowerBuilder, CA-TELON, CA-MetaCOBOL. COBOL
solutions are available for AS/400, DEC/VAX, HP, MVS, Tandem, Unisys, VM, VSE and Wang.
Forecross Confirm/2000sm for independent
verification and validation accurately identifies source statements that have code that is
compliant, non-compliant or needs to be investigated. Confirm/2000sm
provides detailed documentation of the results, including the degree of compliance,
creating a comprehensive audit-trail.
About Brown Brothers Harriman
Founded in 1818, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company is America's oldest and largest
private bank. Full banking offices are located in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Other
offices are located in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Naples, Palm Beach, Charlotte,
London, Luxembourg, Dublin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Zurich and Grand Cayman.
About Forecross
Founded in 1982 as a high-technology software development laboratory, Forecross
Corporation is dedicated to the design and development of innovative conversion software.
Clients have included such leading corporations as Aetna Life Insurance Company, Brown
Brothers Harriman & Company, Charles Schwab & Co., IBM Corporation and Bank of
America NTSA for its Migration software services. Teaming partners of Forecross
Corporation for its Complete/2000® offerings include AASKI
Technologies, Ltd., Alydaar Software Corporation, TRW, Inc. (BDM International), CIBER,
Inc., Information Sciences Group, Inc., Marconi Information Systems (a business division
of Marconi North America Enterprise Solutions, formerly known as Tracor, Inc.), SCB
Computer Technology, Inc., and Sapiens Americas (a subsidiary of Sapiens International). |
