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A limited rollout of the controversial SAP-based Personnel, Payroll and Related Systems (PPARS) has caused significant hardship for a test user. In a letter sent on June 10 to an official of the Irish national health agency, John O'Brien, then-CEO of St James' Hospital in Dublin, said that the software has caused significant problems for some of its 3,500 employees and that the hospital no longer wants to use the system. According to O'Brien, the system 'has been consistently below acceptable standards over the period of 18 months of live SAP payroll at St. Further reading: The hospital has been involved in the PPARS effort since 1998, and in 2003 was the first organization to go live with the payroll and time system, O'Brien wrote to Sean Hurley, national director of information and communication technology for the Health Service Executive.
Marc O'brien Xtuple Open Source Erp For Mac
From the beginning of that installation, he wrote in the letter, 'we experienced system configuration weaknesses, specifically in the areas of calculation of allowances, factoring, public holidays, sick leave, etc., and there were general inaccuracies and a paucity of information in the routine reports generated by the system.' He went on to write that the payroll problems have become worse in recent months, in many cases due to configuration changes in an 'uncontrolled fashion and without prior communication with St.
James' by the PPARS team. The resulting 'weakened payroll process' prompted the staff to threaten a public protest, he said. The problems also made it difficult for managers to 'assure external auditors as to system integrity regarding fiduciary matters.'
NORFOLK, VA Open innovator rounds out management team with co-founder of OpenProj (now ProjectLibre) Effective December 1, 2012, Marc O’Brien joins the xTuple management team as Vice President of Business Development following on three solid quarters of the company’s record sales. CEO Ned Lilly said, 'Marc’s focus will be on evangelizing xTuple as a product, a platform, a strategic partner and a leading member of the open source community. He will represent xTuple to a number of audiences, including potential customers, strategic partners, third-party developers and open source community members.' O’Brien has a long, distinguished history in the software marketplace. His rookie years were spent with global semiconductor design and manufacturing company running the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) department in the 1980s. Subsequently, O’Brien jumped into mainframe sales with MRO Software (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul), Inc.
— formerly known as PSDI — a Massachusetts-based software firm, which published Maximo, an, and was acquired by IBM in 2006. O’Brien also led North American Sales for the when the company won InfoWorld's Product of the Year for its Process Management Software. O’Brien then founded WebProject (since acquired by Nitor), the first Internet-based team application and pioneer in On-Demand applications with the backing of Cisco and Sun Microsystems. He then co-founded cloud and open source technology company, Projity, which was. O’Brien remained active in the organization as vice president of SaaS (Software as a Service). The company’s open source alternative to Microsoft Project, OpenProj (now ), has been in nearly 200 countries. In its first month, ProjectLibre was voted the open source 'Project of the Month' on Sourceforge.
O’Brien continues as project lead for ProjectLibre. Most recently, O’Brien served as Vice President and General Manager for social software and Drupal applications at, which was ranked as the number one software vendor on the 2012 Inc. 'I have seen the evolution of open source software from market disruptor to mainstream business tool,' noted O'Brien. 'I am excited to add to the tremendous growth at xTuple, a pioneer in commercial open source business software. The commercial open source movement has reached its inflection point. Around the world, enterprises and governments are looking at open source as a first choice. This is driven by the speed of community innovation, the freedom enjoyed with open source code and the significant cost benefits.
These value propositions are no longer ignored, even in the largest organizations.' O’Brien holds a B.S.
In Engineering and Management from. He will work out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
While xTuple is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, the company has employees in a dozen U.S. States and Canada, as well as 45 implementation Partner firms worldwide. Tweets @xTuple rounds out #ERP team with co-founder of @ProjectLibre #opensource replacement of @MsftProject.
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