Experienced BPCS® Consultants Add Value to Focused Year 2000 Solution

Naperville, IL – June 9, 1997 – Professional Software Consultants, Inc. (Lenexa, KS) and REAL Industry Solutions Group (Woodland Hills, CA) are now offering to users of SSA's BPCS® manufacturing and distribution systems a complete, cost-effective, and rapid year 2000 solution: the Focus/2000 automated conversion tool from Nexgen/2K, Inc.

Nexgen President and General Manager Rick Halsten today announced that PSC and REAL ISG have become distributors of Focus/2000 in the following states:

As a result of these agreements, Focus/2000 now has local representation by highly-experienced BPCS® service providers throughout the United States. The automated millennium solution is available to BPCS® users in the Midwest through Nexgen, and in the Eastern US through The Janis Group (Rochelle Park, NJ).

The Best Year 2000 solution for BPCS®

The REAL Industry Solutions Group selected Focus/2000 as its BPCS® millennium solution tool because of Nexgen’s BPCS® expertise. "The BPCS® experience of Nexgen staff gives us the confidence that their tool is the best solution. They were the only ones who could demonstrate to us that they could solve the year 2000 issue for BPCS® ," said Brondon Beatty, Sales Manager. An IBM Premier Business Partner, REAL had revenues of over $200 million in FY 1997. For more information, contact Beatty via phone at 310/225-3450, via fax at 310/225-3597, or via email at bbeatty@elcamino.com . REAL ISG can also be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.realisg.com .

"We selected Focus/2000 because it is a relatively inexpensive and painless way for BPCS® users to handle the millennium issue. It also frees up their time and budget to spend on strategic information systems rather than this once in a lifetime housekeeping chore," said Dan Kilpatrick, President of Professional Software Consultants, Inc. The 12-year old firm provides warehouse and distribution software and services to organizations in the south-central United States. For more information, contact Kilpatrick via phone at 913/541-0414, via fax at 913/541-8983, or via email at lshikles@psc-inc.com . PSC can also be found on the web at http://www.psc-inc.com .

Focus/2000 helps BPCS® users overcome a formidable challenge

Close to 8,000 sites worldwide rely on the BPCS® manufacturing and distribution software to run their businesses. Without Focus/2000, clients who are not already live on BPCS® Version 6 (which is year 2000 compliant) face a formidable challenge. Version 6 introduced a radically different set of architectures (client/server, partially object-oriented) which many clients cannot implement without considerable expenditures of time and money. Alternatively, clients who wish to stay on their current version of the software would have a significant undertaking to century-enable their systems manually or using a less robust tool solution. As an example, BPCS® Version 4.05 has approximately 2,000 database files, 1,200 CL programs and 1,600 RPG programs in which dates must be fixed. Since most users have modified BPCS® , the number of programs and files is even greater. Nexgen developed Focus/2000 to automate the task.

This high level of automation—combined with professional services from experienced BPCS® consultants at Nexgen, PSC, JGI, and REAL ISG—reduces the project turnaround to weeks or months instead of the years some users have budgeted.

Nexgen Software Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb in the area’s High Technology Corridor. Since 1990, Nexgen has focused on providing implementation and custom modification services to BPCS® users. Nexgen/2K, Inc. was founded in 1997 to market Focus/2000 as a millennium solution for the BPCS® market and Nexgen/2K as a millennium solution for other AS/400 software. For more information, contact Vice President of Sales Gerard Wolf via telephone at 630/300-6069, via fax at 630/300-6122, or via email at wolf@mail.nexgeninfo.com .

Focus/2000 and Nexgen/2K are trademarks of Nexgen/2K, Inc.
BPCS® is a registered trademark of System Software Associates, Inc.