Accenture wins $102M contract to implement Australian Child Support system in SAP

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Accenture, a firm well known for its spectacular failures has won the AU$102m contract to replace the ageing Child Support system with a SAP system for the Australian Department of Human Services Child Support programme . Accenture will have five years to complete this herculean task. CUBA, the current CSA system for processing child support payments, dispenses $3.2 billion in payments in more than 1 billion transactions annually for 1.2 million children and 1.5 million parents per year.

Is this the deal of a lifetime or an impending disaster? And is SAP the right system to build? What would you use to support a transactional system of this magnitude?

COBOL and DB2 (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-05 02:08 (#ZQ)

List all solutions that can handle that handle millions of transactions per year.
Definitely not java tech. Billions of transactions per year. Definitely not java.
Not Microsoft SQLServer with .net. Compared to DB2 it is not even in the running.
Cobol could have died by now but no new batch processing technology has come out.
The SAP programming language devised in the 70s is similar to COBOL functionally.
Perhaps they are thinking that SAP can be the new COBOL for the next few decades.
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