SAP Project Fiasco Halted in Ireland after $170M over budget

Talk about a project management disaster! Computerworld reports that two SAP ERP projects for the Irish government, estimated at more that $380 million were halted by the Irish national health committee.

One project, an HR/Payroll project, had been started 10 years ago (it was targeted as a 3 year project) and ran into problems due to the complexities of the requirements. This project was budgeted at $10 million and was now targeted at $180 million.

The other was a Financial Systems SAP project (budgeted at $203 million), which wasn't as far along, but was apparently cancelled due to lack of trust after the HR/Payroll fiasco.

Both projects were being led by Deloitte and Touche. Here's the full report from Computerworld...

Irish agency halts work on two SAP application projects - Computerworld