Monday, May 08, 2006
Centrica takes back IT project - vnunet.com
Centrica takes back IT project - vnunet.com: "Centrica says the programme is on schedule and the third phase will be done by the end of 2006.
But company documents indicate a series of delays stretching back at least two years. An executive briefing in 2003 said the SAP migration phase was to be completed by mid-2004. And Paul Bysouth, the director in charge of Jupiter, is quoted as saying legacy billing systems will be terminated by the end of 2005.
By February 2004, an internally-circulated article by Paul Bowtell, British Gas director of finance, acknowledged a �frustrating� nine-month delay.
In the 2003 documents British Gas managing director Mark Clare said that 2004 would be �a heavy year in terms of delivery cost� because the company would be running new SAP software and old legacy systems.
So far only a third of customer accounts have been migrated onto SAP, and the parallel platforms will run until the end of this year."
But company documents indicate a series of delays stretching back at least two years. An executive briefing in 2003 said the SAP migration phase was to be completed by mid-2004. And Paul Bysouth, the director in charge of Jupiter, is quoted as saying legacy billing systems will be terminated by the end of 2005.
By February 2004, an internally-circulated article by Paul Bowtell, British Gas director of finance, acknowledged a �frustrating� nine-month delay.
In the 2003 documents British Gas managing director Mark Clare said that 2004 would be �a heavy year in terms of delivery cost� because the company would be running new SAP software and old legacy systems.
So far only a third of customer accounts have been migrated onto SAP, and the parallel platforms will run until the end of this year."
