"The University of California is one of the world's most prestigious centers of higher education and cutting-edge medical, technological and social research. One assumes that its faculty and administrative cadre are saturated with extremely bright people. Nevertheless, UC has succumbed to a managerial disease that has afflicted other corners of state government the chronic inability to successfully adopt information technology."
"The most obvious example is the Financial Information System for California, with the catchy abbreviation of FI$Cal. It was supposed to be a one-stop financial management tool. But since FI$Cal launched in 2005, it has consumed more than a billion dollars and is not likely to be completed until sometime in the next decade. It's a bureaucratic zombie, not quite alive but not quite dead."
"As described in an article by Politico, a website devoted to politics: In April 2019, the University of California unveiled a new computer program that school officials promised would overhaul its clunky, outdated system for disbursing pension payments to more than 150,000 former employees. Glitches and bad data, however, marred the launch, delaying payments and causing other problems."
The University of California remains a premier research and education institution but has chronic problems adopting large information-technology projects. State agencies have spent billions on projects intended to improve efficiency and responsiveness, yet many initiatives have failed, under-delivered, or missed deadlines. The Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) launched in 2005, has consumed more than a billion dollars, and is unlikely to be completed until sometime in the next decade. In April 2019 the university launched a new pension-payment computer program intended to overhaul disbursement for more than 150,000 former employees, but glitches and bad data delayed payments and caused other problems. Six years later the university remains embroiled in a bitter legal dispute with the contractors, alleging repeated misrepresentation and fraud while the companies call the claims baseless and label the litigation vindictive.
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