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Troubled metals and plumbing company the Crane Group has written down the carrying value of a new PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning system by AU$28.8 million due to "significant cost and time overruns" and is considering a claim against the vendor.
Lured by the promise of personal attention every bit as good as that lavished on bigger customers, John Matelski decided seven years ago to buy a US$1.7 million accounting system from J.D. Edwards for the City of Orlando, Fla.
A survey of chief information officers has found that while IT departments are investing in new software, they are wary of CRM packages.
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