ERP rollout at Europe's largest local council slammed
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Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation
  • BrikoXMEnglish
    7•3 days ago

    <…> costs have ballooned from around £19 million to a projected estimate of £131 million and, because the council chose not to use system audit features, it cannot tell if fraud has taken place on its multibillion-pound spending budget for an 18-month period.

    Sounds like fraud was the goal.

    • EleventhHourEnglish
      5•3 days ago

      Yeah… whenever there’s a “detect fraud” feature and someone chooses not to enable it… it’s because they plan to defraud.