Different Country, Same IT Problems
By Allan Holmes | Thursday, October 25, 2007 | 04:27 PM
By Allan Holmes | Thursday, October 25, 2007 | 04:27 PM
You just knew there had to be an IT angle to the special inspector general reports on procurement abuses associated with the Iraq War. You were right. There is. Seems that the United States spent $38 million to develop a financial management system for Iraq's government. When it stopped working for a month, no one noticed, according to an Associated Press article. From the article:
"According to U.S. Embassy officials, the Ministry of Finance continues to use its legacy system for overall budget and accounting, 'nobody noticed' when IFMIS was down for a month and no one relies on IFMIS to produce reports," [special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen Jr.] said.
Other ministries, such as interior and defense, have developed their own financial management information systems, and they are not compatible with the new one and cannot transfer financial data from one system to another.
Sound familiar?
Comments
Went to SIGIR.mil Report read. It looks like the IT folks have screwed it all up again. Another 38 million bucks down the bucket hole. It is a never ending drain as the US Government allocates vasts sums for IT development and support then gets little of nothing for the money spent. IT contractors make used car sellers look like Mother Teresa.
Anonymous | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | 12:47 PMHey AH, this whole thing is a sack of lies. The auditors are a bunch of twits that don't understand what an IT implementation is. Go to the SIGIR website and read the report. Laughable.
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