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Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk'

Posted by timothy on from the new-old-meaning-for-spend-a-penny dept.

itwbennett writes "The Army's $2.4 billion SAP project is delayed, over budget, and, once implemented may not even meet its original objectives, according to a recent auditors' report. For its part, the Army is less concerned with the auditors' findings about the project that will manage a $140 billion annual budget and serve nearly 80,000 users once it is complete: 'The Army believes the risks identified in this report are manageable and do not materially impact the [project's] cost and schedule,' said an official with the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology)."

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  1. That's what you get by sortius_nod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you go with SAP.

  2. Another money sink... by spaceplanesfan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why that isn't cancelled, but Webbs telescope is? Ah, its thats the Army....
    RIP US space program

  3. It's not gov't, it's SAP by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It fails just as often in the private sector, the difference being that there, the client usually goes bankrupt before you hear about it.

  4. Re:Government IT projects by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't happen in the competitive private sector.

    Yes it does. You just don't get to hear about it either because it's confidential or because private sector waste isn't a good story.

    People do a project because it makes/saves money, and then make it work.

    I have worked on many projects in the private sector and heard about plenty more where the IT director has believed what a salesman told them and ended up with an absolute disaster. What you say might be true for SMBs but big organisations are not too different to the public sector.