Year 2000 Assurance CoreTech Consulting Group, Inc.

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Have you taken all the necessary steps to ensure Year 2000 Compliance and reduce your business risk? If not, you need CoreTech's Compliance Assurance Process

CoreTech's Year 2000 services are designed to help our clients understand and manage the business risk associated with the Year 2000 event and develop and implement plans to reduce that risk. Our Compliance Assurance Process (CAPTM) focuses on the final and most critical step in the Year 2000 plan - providing a high degree of assurance, through documented evidence, that all critical aspects of our client's business will operate correctly with respect to the Year 2000 date and its related event horizons.CoreTech is a recognized expert in the development of Compliance Assurance, Quality Assurance and Testing processes. CoreTech brings a rigorous methodology, based on industry best practices, which has been proven through engagements with large, global clients for Year 2000 projects.

Business Driven Methodology
CoreTech's CAP methodology is a comprehensive, business risk management approach to solving Year 2000 compliance issues. Internal applications, vendor applications and systems and external suppliers are all key components of the compliance process. CoreTech experts develop a strategic prioritization of key systems using business risk metrics and then design tailored testing approaches for each application and system. Early warning test and compliance plans are created along with rigorous process control methods.Once the Compliance Assurance Process is implemented and data is collected, CoreTech can assist the client in developing Contingency Plans to further reduce the business risk for key applications, systems and suppliers that may not be Year 2000 compliant in time.

Compliance Assurance has been recognized as one of the most critical and most forgotten steps in the Year 2000 project timeline. The Year 2000 problem affects all businesses as well as the data and supply chain partners of those businesses. Even if the firm does not rely on technology, its business partners might. To reach a complete level of compliance that guarantees that the critical systems of the business continue to operate, a firm must develop and execute a process to ensure compliance of its internal systems, third party applications and systems and those of the entire data and supply chain.

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CoreTech's Compliance Assurance Process explains the process of compliance certification and assurance for computer systems. It includes certification of both new and existing computer systems and covers the following topics:

• introduction of the Year 2000 Compliance Assurance Process;

• responsibility for Year 2000 Compliance activities;

• activities to be performed before a system certification;

• the overall certification framework;

• the certification framework for third-party products and suppliers;

• the compliance assurance process for a firm's product
development (if applicable);

• the framework for compliance testing and documentation.

The Compliance Assurance Process is intended for:

     • Information Resources and Systems Groups including Corporate
         Affairs, Corporate Finance, Corporate Employee Resources
         and Legal;

• All Business Group Year 2000 Project Managers;

• All Year 2000 Planning Council Members;

• All Year 2000 Certification Committee Members;

• All IT managers;

• All developers of computer systems applications;

• All personnel involved in computer systems procurement;

• All users of computer systems involved in certification approvals.

Do you have a high degree of assurance that all of the critical aspects of your business will operate correctly?

Contact us today for more information