in brief Superannuation specialist Superpartners today revealed it had picked multinational giants SAP and CSC to provide it with a new enterprise resource planning system.
The new ERP system is part of the company's recently announced $70 million technology overhaul. US giant CSC will provide system integration services in combination with SAP. Previously, Superpartners had been using a product from Landmark, in combination with hundreds of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Superpartners chief executive Greg Camm said the company had outgrown its current systems. The company currently has over 6 million member accounts and 700,000 employers.
"Migrating onto a new ERP system is absolutely essential for us to mitigate the costs of ongoing growth, and to provide the sophisticated reporting and analysis required by our client industry funds," he said. Superpartners expects to announce the winner of an IT infrastructure managed services contract soon.
SAP = expensive, complicated and unwieldy.
SAP is reducing its staff here in AU isn't it?
Everything is a variation and an increase in roll out cost because its never quite what you want.
A Typical European software jigsaw which you have to pay extra for everything. Rock solid - you just need a cashed up "pick" to get what you want.
Ask Telstra now about the constant pain of rolling out SAP and lack of support, also ask Sony about its moving away from SAP.