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Statewide Systems Project

February 6, 1997

This report analyzes the costs and benefits of Minnesota's Statewide Systems Project, a computer development project that replaced existing accounting and procurement systems and created a new payroll and personnel system for state government. The project was "moderately successful" but costs were 50 percent higher than expected and many expected benefits have not materialized

The report summary is available here in PDF or text as noted below. The full report is available in PDF only. You may download the latest version at no charge from the Adobe web site.

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The evaluators for this report: Tom Walstrom, Project Manager, Jan Sandberg, and Nicholas Franco