When it comes to the Year 2000 challenge, companies have four options: repair the logic, repair the database, rewrite application or replace with packages. Of the four, the last two provide an opportunity for companies to improve their business practices and opportunities as well as resolve a potentially devastating problem.
Bruckner de Villiers, managing director of JBA South Africa, said: "The total rewrite of applications, is fast receding as Year 2000 approaches. There is no longer enough time to start from scratch. Yet, there is still time to consider a packaged approach."
To this end, JBA South Africa and IBM have introduced System 21Count Down, a business solution with a 90-day implementation cycle. It is a packaged version of the highly successful JBA System 21 software and AS 400 hardware, which already provides integrated financial, manufacturing, customer service and logistics and service management solutions for more than 4000 clients world-wide.
De Villiers believes that as time runs out and as cash flow becomes an issue, Count Down can come into its own. Substantial discounts from both JBA and IBM and an attractive deferred payment option, allows this business solution to come in at a quarter of the price of current systems available on the market.
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