Waste Management filed a case against SAP in March claiming an enterprise resource planning implementation was badly handled. SAP hopes to delay the trial and accuses Waste Management of producing voluminous documents but not the most critical. WM replied that SAP is involved in failed implementation cases often enough to use the same motions and experts. NewYorkTimes.com reports:
In a filing in Harris County, Texas District Court earlier this month, SAP asked the court to delay the trial until February 2010 due to the complexity of the case. The vendor also alleges Waste Management has not behaved in good faith during the discovery process...
"These types of lawsuits, arising from defective software and failed implementation, are routine for SAP," Waste Management said. "There are standard motions it files and it uses the same types of expert witnesses. ... There is no reason the case cannot be discovered and tried in 2009.
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