To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (17475 ) 8/20/2002 1:09:51 PM From: Lizzie Tudor Read Replies (2) | Respond to As I said before, I give Agilent a lot of credit for not even mentioning the name of the software vendor, though I know it to be Oracle. Most likely the problem resulted from a fairly radical changeover in both systems and operational procedures, not with problems inherent in the new software. Last I checked, Agilent was using relatively antiquated systems and procedures inherited from the HP days, which no longer made sense and were incredibly expensive to continue with. I believe they needed to change them, but also recognize that it would have been a major "shock to the system." I think it's pretty classy of them to take the blame, rather than blaming the software or the consulting partner. SAP were pretty shocked in 1996 when we told them that we couldn't possibly use their cost accounting/controlling solutions anywhere at Intel. But it was true. We were in that odd set of "outliers" who things so differently, and for such a good reason, that trying to find a common solution was completely a waste of time.
