Best they can hope for is their money back... 800k
I really do find it strange how the poor guys at Worth, think they can win this (I am a long time purchaser, seller and implementer of ERP solutions both client side and selling side)...
1. Spending a year to evaluate the market just stinks of laziness and confusion at best
2. Oracle do have lots of customers using the solution in similar industries and many of them are happy with the functional coverage
3. Worth paid EDREi for implementation services - configuration, data conversion and testing of the Worth processes in the Oracle solution - Not sure how contractually EDREi and Oracle are linked - but most likely they are not.
4. Data would have always been Worth's responsibility - crap in crap out
5. Seems like a lack of governance and process gave Worth a sense of comfort - If this was so important they should have had bi-weekly steering committees to track progress and escalate
6. Doesn't look like many of the business users were on board with the changes coming - Though I'm sure they all feel they worked hard, probably none were truly bought in - Did Worth really put their best people on this ?
7. Worth paid around 800k to Oracle - I think they will be lucky to get that back - Most get offered deals on buying more of something else...
8. EDRi are now conveniently out of business - So they can't get any money back from their implementor
9. The internal people that Worth assigned to the project should be reprimanded or never put on a project again
It astounds me that the owner of a multi million dollar business is paying good money to lawyers to try and keep face - It very rarely ends well and just is a bad hangover for a long long time...
I also really don't like Oracle or their practices - but if you want the benefits of the technology and a long term solution, who else can you trust ? SAP, Microsoft, IBM ?
Worth first and foremost really should have taken the project seriously and done a proper job...
Oracle, EDREi Monument are all cowards, who just wouldn't step up to the job...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
