July 21, 2006

U. of Wisconsin Gives Up on $26-Million Effort to Install Payroll Software

By DAN CARNEVALE

The University of Wisconsin System has decided to ditch a computer payroll system on which it had unsuccessfully spent about $26-million. University officials said they would give Oracle a try instead.

The university spent six years trying to install software by Lawson Software Inc. to update and unify the payroll-and-benefits computer system for all of its campuses.

Nothing was wrong with the Lawson software, officials said; they had simply mismanaged its installation. After

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