SAP support to cost Penn Pike $19m - prospect of lease not slowing down the PTC

The prospect of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission being put out of business in favor of a concessionaire/leaseholder isn't slowing down the Commission's contracting. They announced today they've awarded a $19m contract to CIBER Inc to do post-implementation support for their SAP business suite of software for finance, logistics and personnel. (see POMPOUSIFICATION below)  The Turnpike has around 2200 employees.

The Ciber support contract is for five years.

Ciber recently completed $58m of work getting SAP's comprehensive software installed at the Turnpike. They were working on installation based on a contract signed in May 2006.

Ciber is based in Greenwood Village CO but has offices all over.

SAP is a German software company that leads internationally in giant software systems that supposedly bring together everything needed by way of Information Technology (IT) in large organizations.

POMPOUSIFICATION: Personnel was a perfectly good word for what is now pompously called Human Resources, but that isn't pompous enough for corporate wordsmiths at Ciber. They make it Human Capital Management.

The Germans at least have fun running such terms together into gigantic compound words, thus humanistischkapitalwirtshaftslehre - we just made that up with the help of a German-English dictionary. In actuality the common German term is just Personalwesen.

The pompous are making English more labored than German!

TOLLROADSnews 2008-09-04