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google "IBM phoenix payroll canada" for a fine example of what has gone wrong. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ibm+phoenix+payroll+canada
by walrus01 5y ago
google "IBM phoenix payroll canada" for a fine example of what has gone wrong.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ibm+phoenix+payroll+canada https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ibm+pho...
- momothereal 5y agoBy far the biggest software fuckup in Canada's history.
- walrus01 5y agohowever, the therac-25 killed more people
- momothereal 5y agoNot trying to downplay that one either, but Pheonix put thousands of people in major financial risk and/or ruin, and at least 1 suicide was attributed to it.
- raverbashing 5y agoNah, don't forget Target's SAP migration
- datahead 5y agoOne of my favorite lessons "learned the hard way" by someone else. You fundamentally cannot run a business on poor data practices. It will sink you before you realize what happened. https://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-canada/ https://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-can...
- markus_zhang 5y agoHow did they get so wrong...
- Bayart 5y agoI don't know what's with payroll management software (low-hanging government contracts ? Inter-agency factionalism ?) but every time I hear about a nationwide software-inflicted catastrophe somewhere, it's one of those. In France we've had to deal with LOUVOIS, the payroll software for all the armed branches, being an unending train wreck. There were quite a few families of deployed soldiers who had to deal with near-bankruptcy because of it.