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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff   When Chuck Sperazza joined fab-less semiconductor company Agere Systems Inc. in February 2004, his first assignment as CIO was to perform an infrastructure assessment. What he found was not encouraging. Years earlier, the company had deployed commercial ERP software that had subsequently been customized so much it now functioned as a homegrown system. As a result, Agere's IT department had to spend 90% of its time just fixing, stabilizing, and enhancing the ERP environment. Because of all of the work -- and money -- that had been put into the ERP application, which was based on version 10.7 of Oracle Corp.'s E-Business Suite, company executives had decided never to upgrade. That put Sperazza in a bit of a bind because Oracle had announced that in June 2004 it would cut off support for 10.7 and was encouraging customers to migrate to its new 11i suite. [Click to continue] |