Tag: Birmingham City Council
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The Register: Europe’s largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/birmingham_oracle_auditors/ Source: The Register Title: Europe’s largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months Feedly Summary: It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications…
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The Register: How mega city council’s failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/birmingham_oracle_auditors/ Source: The Register Title: How mega city council’s failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls Feedly Summary: Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find “Huge. There could be major problems transacting leading to late payment or collection of debt. The accounts could be…