Computing officers at the University of Wisconsin System are urging administrators to jettison an expensive payroll-management program before it takes an even bigger bite out of the budget.
Wisconsin has spent five years and $25-million trying to shift over to the payroll software, which was designed by Lawson Software, a Minnesota company. The program was scheduled to be up and running by April but still hasn’t made its debut, and the natives are getting restless. Chief information officers on all but one of Wisconsin’s 16 campuses have signed a letter recommending that the university system switch to another company’s software. Lawson, they argue, "has no significant presence in higher education." (The Capital Times)
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