Why did IT suppliers allow Birmingham City Council to go live with Oracle? | Computer Weekly

Birmingham City Council’s Oracle system woes have continued into 2025, with concerns being raised in Monday’s meeting of the council to set the annual budget, highlighting accounting problems. These cannot be fixed until reimplementation of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is operational.

One councillor said: “When you look into the budget book, you find that there is a deficit in the budget of £380m over the next three years, but what really concerns me is the effect…