US military issues agile and open standards orders after ERP disasters
The world's most muscular military machine is still operating on creaky old computer systems after a decade of modernisation by systems integrators and ERP software suppliers whose problematic implementations have gone $7bn over-budget. It is nearly 10 years since US military divisions followed the millennial trend in public computing by pooling their purchasing and embarking on the ambitious, clean-slate replacement of hundreds of business systems with all-encompassing Enterprise Resource planning software. Then they followed the ERP trend of going years over-schedule and billions of dollars over-budget. Now the Department of Defence claims it is going agile, adopting open standards and embracing the semantic web.
Nov 03, 2011 12:00 AM
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