• IBM’s awarded contract for 21st Century project deployment and training; bittersweet after disqualification of their FI$CAL Bid

    March 16th, 2012 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
    IBM’s awarded contract for 21st Century project deployment and training; bittersweet after disqualification of their FI$CAL Bid

    Techwire reports on IBM’s award of a $12 million contract for 21st Century Payroll Project deployment and training for the new SAP based system. Not sure if it will make up for IBM’s failure to even have their FI$CAL final bid opened. Apparently, just CGI […]

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    FI$CAL takes more hits from State Auditor

    January 11th, 2012 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
    FI$CAL takes more hits from State Auditor

    Orange County Register reports that the State’s $1.6 billion computer system [is] beset  by woes: Five months before selecting a contractor, the state of California has already spent $62.6 million on a computer project that the state auditor says is beset by problems with staffing, […]

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    NY Announces $4.4B technology investment from Intel, IBM

    September 28th, 2011 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , ,
    NY Announces $4.4B technology investment from Intel, IBM

    Governor Cuomo announced that: Intel, IBM and other major technology companies announced Tuesday they will invest $4.4 billion for computer-chip research in New York that will create or retain about 6,900 jobs stretching from the Finger Lakes through the Hudson Valley. The announcement by Gov. […]

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    Dept of ED: CALPADS ‘in critical danger of failure’; IBM – Not so fast

    February 24th, 2011 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , ,
    Dept of ED: CALPADS ‘in critical danger of failure’; IBM – Not so fast

    John Fensterwald at Educated Guess reports that IBM’s response to the Department of Education’s termination threat letter regarding the CALPADS project of just a few weeks ago appears to be somewhat phlegmatic. The Department’s consultant had concluded that CALPADS was “in critical danger of project/system […]

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