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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. Not surprised by edgedmurasame · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only people who will get something out of SAP are the consultants who get paid to "fix" it.

    --
    "Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
  2. Government IT projects by Stormthirst · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What is it about government IT projects that makes them go so disastrously wrong? The UK government are no better at getting it right. The MOD* procurement system was a similar mess - over budget, and didn't do what it was set out to do.

    * Ministry of Defense