Business Continuity Tool Kit.Are your firm and clients Y2K compliant Capable of correctly processing any data that deals with a date beyond the year 1999. See Y2K problem. ? The Department of Commerce (DOC) has made available to small and medium-sized businesses a number of tools to address Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 concerns. All the following can be downloaded flee flee v. fled , flee·ing, flees v.intr. 1. To run away, as from trouble or danger: fled from the house into the night. 2. from its Website at www.doc.gov/y2k: * DOC Self-HelpTool/CD-ROM, an interactive, user-friendly software tool containing valuable contingency planning templates and guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. , is available to download in 10 languages. * Year 2000 Product Compliance Self-Help Research Guide aids users in locating Y2K compliance information for their products. * Rapid Response Management Tool and Sourcebook helps users address Y2K-related hardware, software or embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. failures. It provides business owners with information on Y2K failure models and offers remediation methods for hardware, software and embedded systems that small businesses commonly use. The sourcebook will be continually updated with Y2K planning data. Other Y2K readiness information can be obtained from the Y2K Help Center for Small Business at the National Institute of Standards & Technology, at (800) Y2K-7557 or www.y2khelp.nist.gov. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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