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SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support
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- lores 2y agoHMRC is a disaster, as an organisation. They opted out of the oversight of the Cabinet Office IT team that massively improved other ministries' software teams. When I was working for one, I heard they had spent hundreds of millions on a data server farm that was sitting idle and unused. The average tenure of a software engineer there is 6 months. It's a big mess. (All info is a few years old, it may have changed since, but I doubt it).
- jmclnx 2y agoI left a company because of their planned move to the new version of SAP. Based upon how big of a change it would be when compared to R/3, that is one project I was way to old for. I miss the old days of nice and simple systems. Good luck to UK Tax, no easy solution except maybe raise taxes and get extorted by SAP for a few more years to continue using the existing system. Also a big warning for UK people, SAP and Oracle Developers and Testers will have unfettered access to everyone's Tax Data. Yes, SAP and Oracle will say that is false, but they are really telling a "white lie". I have been through a few of these upgrades, and everytime no "fuzzing" of prod data was done. Doing that is close to impossible in SAP, and to do that is a multi-year project on its own. Oracle I would expect the same is true.
- lores 2y agoTo be fair, data protections in UK ministries are pretty extreme and taken seriously. At least, that's the case at Justice, I would hope that HMRC manages to do at least that.
- blankx32 2y agoTime to bite the bullet and ditch the robbers