[glob2-devel] $380 million lost in proprietary monolythic software

[MUNTEANU Olimpiu Andrei]

Well, choosing big monolithic proprietary software, has just produced 
hundred of millions of money spend and many years for just nothink......

The story is now on the internet and the newspapers everywere:


The Irish Republic’s health service has halted rollout of its new 
computerised personnel system, following complaints about poor 
performance, processing errors and ballooning costs. The system, called 
PPARS (Personnel, Payroll and Related Systems) was ordered from leading 
business-software house SAP in 1999, and went live in four of Ireland’s 
Health Service Executive (HSE) locations during 2004. The Health Service 
Executive has blamed a combination of human error and procedural gaps 
for a payment of €1 million being made by mistake to a health worker. 
The HSE said that the error in a new computerised payment system 
occurred over a year ago.

Halting of two controversial SAP AG ERP system rollouts -- valued at 
more than $380 million -- this month has ignited a political firestorm 
in Ireland

For its part, SAP wouldn't comment directly on the project but said in a 
statement that "the HSE is a highly valued customer of SAP Ireland."

The FISP project aimed to build a single financial and materials 
management system that supports current best practices. The system, 
expected to cost about $203 million, would replace a mishmash of legacy 
systems and processes. About $36 million has been spent so far on the 
project, which is considered on time and on budget

When it was first costed in 1998, the government believed the 
implementation would cost no more than €9 million.

Conclusion: they nead more sophisticated solutions.... [the exact phrase 
i saw was that there is no simple solution]

http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17272

http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/project/story/0,10801,105468,00.html

http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-l-irlande-abandonne-deux-projets-sap-a-la-derive-10525.html