Phase III of Multinational Project

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Start of phase III

1994 Apr-Jun
Following phase II a number of development strands were begun which became loosely referred to as phase III.


German standalone system installed

1994 Apr-Jun
In June 1994, the Multinational system was installed in Germany on a standalone basis (01017).


McDonalds system developed

1994 Jul-Sep
In June 1994, Nigel started the development of a special subsystem for McDonalds based on the Multinational system. This was live by September 1994 (00795) and was deemed to be very successful (01097).


Client Services investigated

1994 Jul-Sep
By the end of September 1994, a review of how to provide additional client services based on the McDonalds model was completed by Stuart (00554, 00800).


Process Automation investigated

1994 Jul-Sep
In July 1994, a review of the opportunities for increased process automation was produced by Jim (00712).

1994 Oct-Dec
By October 1994, the process improvement work had been put on hold until the new year according to Jim because Underwriting Services did not have resources to support the development (00756).


Ad hoc reporting investigated

1994 Jul-Sep
In June 1994, Gordan was planning to have Q+E installed for ad hoc reporting by mid July (00133, 00787). Work in August showed that there were difficulties pulling off the kind of reports that Keith thought were wanted (00839). By September 1994 the newsletter was predicting release at the end of the year (00796).

1994 Oct-Dec
In the autumn of 1994, a consultant working with Keith on use of Q+E for typical reports recommended the use of an interim database structured to make reporting easy (00839). Alan was scheduled to do the work in January 1995. However according to Gordan in October 1994, Q+E had been installed in the City (00732).

1995 Jan-Mar
By January 1995, Q+E had been implemented in Holland and for the McDonalds sub-system but there was still doubt over its use elsewhere. Implementation in other areas was included in the minor enhancements plan (00881).


Minor enhancements planned

1994 Oct-Dec
In October 1994, the audit found that some screens were frequently completed incorrectly by underwriters and that the relaxation of validation controls in some instances had led to incorrect data. Proposals for changing the system and introducing some data quality reports were produced (00754, 01069).

1995 Jan-Mar
By January 1995, two releases (end March and June 1995) were planned for minor enhancements to the Multinational system arising from the 152 items identified from the data audit and the plans to roll the system out to other countries (00869).


New standards developed

1995 Jan-Mar
Around January 1995, GIS began to implement CASE tools tying them in with the development of new development standards (00850). The CASE tool was used to reverse engineer Multinational and produce a draft physical model (00955) (the first according to Colin).


New architecture planned

1995 Jan-Mar
By January 1995 they were planning to rollout the Multinational system to other locations including Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore (00870, 00868).

1995 Jan-Mar
By January 1995, they had decided to fully utilise the Replication server facilities in Unix Sybase to support the roll-out of the system to other locations (00870).


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