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Managing the Euro in Information Systems: Strategies for Successful Changeover (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)

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Replacing European currencies with the euro has been a political decision, but euroland businesses now face their own decision-making process to ensure pricing, accounting and information systems are euro-compliant by 2002. Patrick O'Beirne's encyclopaedic new book raises the questions businesses need to ask themselves and offers solutions in terms of practical business strategies. Not only is this an essential guide for the information systems specialist introducing company-wide data, and the

accountant tackling problems of conversion, it will help other businesses disciplines recognise the impact euro conversion will have on their activities too.

The Euro is an interesting example of an important kind of project, which can be termed a 'mass update project.' The Euro, like the Year 2000, requires updates to thousands of applications at the same time. Patrick O'Beirne's new book is of great interest to the software and project management communities. It discusses many aspects of the Euro, and covers both the business and technical implications. U.S. managers and executives will find the book very useful as a primer on the Euro itself, and as a guide to how to handle mass update projects.

Patrick O'Briene's book fills a critical need at a critical time. If you think Y2K was difficult, the IT side of the euro is far more complicated, intertwined as it is with all the essential parts of a business - from accounts to marketing and sales. Yet there are a great many business opportunities from euro conversion as well as many, many traps into which the unwary can fall. Read Patrick's book if you want gain some real insights into this change and save yourself a lot of time 're-inventing' your own wheel.