Sky City Limited

Ready for Year 2000

After nearly three years of assessment and testing, Sky City is pleased to confirm its readiness for the Year 2000.

Sky City has made substantial progress towards ensuring Year 2000 (Y2K) readiness for its information systems (IS) environment, and its wide range of software-dependent business systems, equipment and processes.

All significant applications, equipment and systems have been assessed, remedied where necessary, tested, and proven to be Y2K ready. Business continuity plans have been developed and trialled for all core operations.

Y2K expertise

Sky City’s Y2K project began in 1996 and has been managed by a nominated project team since mid-1997 with much of the assessment, remediation and testing works having been completed by Sky City staff familiar with both the functionality and operational requirements of the company’s IS applications and technology-based equipment and systems. To ensure that the project schedule was maintained throughout, suitably skilled contractors were seconded to the project on an as- required basis to augment in-house resources.

Independent review

While the Y2K project has been managed internally, Azimuth Consulting Limited has been engaged to independently review progress of the Y2K project. Azimuth reported to the project team and to the Sky City board, and has concluded that Sky City is well placed to achieve its Y2K objectives.

Contingency planning

All Sky City’s core IS applications, equipment and systems are assessed as Y2K ready and are supported by contingency plans which will provide the ability to work around any unforeseen risks.

Third party suppliers

The company has also assessed its reliance on third party suppliers and vendors, and has been advised that its critical suppliers are expected to be Y2K ready. Wherever possible, the potential Y2K risks associated with essential external supplies of gas, electricity, water, waste water and telecommunications utilities have been mitigated by the implementation of Y2K contingency plans, additional resources for which are already in place or have been programmed to be in place at date-sensitive times over the next six months.

Maintaining Y2K readiness

The remaining challenge to Sky City’s Y2K readiness is to maintain a watching brief over changes, either within the company or the broader business environment in which Sky City operates, which might compromise the company’s current Y2K readiness. Tight controls have been implemented over hardware, software, systems and equipment changes prior to 1 March 2000, and there is ongoing communication with staff to ensure they take responsibility for the continued readiness of their respective business units and with critical suppliers, vendors and utility providers upon whom Sky City is reliant.

[ 1999 Annual Report Index | Current & Prior Annual Reports | Return to Home ]