Thirty-six percent expect between 76 and 99 percent of their applications to be ready for Year 2000, and two percent anticipate completing work on 50 percent or less of their systems. Fifty-five percent reported such errors last December. The Cap Gemini America survey also finds corporate management strengthening its hand on a number of fronts to protect business from Year 2000-related damage.
All respondents report an increased focus on business continuity efforts over the last quarter.
Business management is bolstering its Year 2000 role in other ways besides taking charge of crisis command posts. And large firms are now universally willing to participate in joint Year 2000 command centers within their industry, in command posts crossing industry lines, and in global, cross-industry, crisis centers. IT executives want to show top management that the job was done right. The survey, one of the longest-running corporate polls to systematically monitor Year 2000 preparedness, includes responses from information technology directors and managers of 144 major U.S. corporations across all major industrial sectors and 17 federal, state, and local government agencies. It is carried out by Rubin Systems, Inc. for Cap Gemini America.