Auditor: 2026 till Birmingham recovers from botched Oracle project | Computer Weekly

Grant Thornton has issued a forensic 66-page report relating to a failed Oracle Fusion enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation at Birmingham City Council, which has left it without a functioning finance system until at least 2026.

When the council’s Oracle implementation steering committee took the decision to go live in April 2022, say the auditors from Grant Thornton, “the level of risk inherent in the Oracle solution was not properly understood. This resulted in the…