Last year, the province signed a 10-year contract with IBM. The deal outsourced the province’s SAP operation to the company. SAP is an acronym for Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung, a German-created software system that companies, organizations and governments use for planning and managing finances. Before the deal with IBM, the province had an SAP division with […]
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Most provincial SAP workers turn down job offers from IBM
Part of the agreement between the provincial government and IBM for outsourcing the province’s SAP program included the stipulation that government workers be offered offered jobs at IBM, at their current rate of pay. Some 72 provincial SAP workers were offered such jobs, but only 28 have accepted employment at the company. That leaves 44 […]
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FOIPOP expert slams Dexter government over IBM deal
“There can be no good reason” for the Dexter government’s refusal to release documents related to the recently announced IBM deal, says Darce Fardy, Nova Scotia’s foremost expert on the province’s Freedom of Information law. The documents spell out the financial and other details of the deal, and are of interest to government watchdogs, media, […]