Naperville, IL-Imagine a vendor developing a tool that will make any other approach to the Year 2000 problem for BPCS® users obsolete. That's precisely what Nexgen has done.

Nexgen Consulting announces a completely automated year 2000 solution distinguished by extremely rapid results and specifically developed for users of SSA's BPCS® software. The offering is designed for clients who have BPCS® versions prior to 6.0, which is the only 21st century-enabled version.

Many of the year 2000 packages already on the market offer project management and framework for making code changes. Their contribution to actually making those code changes, however, is either simplistic or non-existent. In sharp contrast, Nexgen's approach was to draw upon their consultants' detailed and comprehensive knowledge of BPCS® to create a highly-automated method for correcting defective date code.

"Because of the power of our toolset, we can deliver results in a matter of weeks -- not months or years," according to Dan Mitchell, Nexgen's Chief Technology Officer. "Finally, even modified BPCS® users have a truly automatic end-to-end year 2000 solution."

"We believe the new architecture that SSA has introduced in Version 6.0 is the right direction for the product," says Rick Halsten, President and General Manager of Nexgen. "However, many of our clients are telling us that they're not interested in any upgrade disruption right now, let alone one of this magnitude. Yet their operational date horizons are already pushing them up against the year 2000 barrier. Thousands of BPCS® users have come to know Nexgen as a top BPCS® service provider. So it made sense for us to develop a BPCS® -specific solution to the problem.

Since 1990, Nexgen has focused on providing implementation and custom modification services to BPCS® users. For more information, Nexgen can be reached at (630)300-6000.

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