EnergyAustralia claims that an article in The Australian has “misrepresented” a project to integrate billing platforms from Oracle and SAP. The newspaper reported that a “troubled technology integration project at EnergyAustralia has seen its chief information officer resign and the company forced to spend more than $285 million just to keep the lights on.” The report was referring to EnergyAustralia’s project of moving 1.5 million customers from Ausgrid’s SAP billing platform to EnergyAustralia’s Oracle billing platform. EnergyAustralia is owned by the CLP Group, which purchased the retail arm of EnergyAustralia in 2011, including the EnergyAustralia brand. The rest of the state-owned EnergyAustralia company was renamed Ausgrid. “When we acquired the retail customer base of Ausgrid we obviously had a transition arrangement that was agreed [on] – transitioning the customer base from one company to another. This unfortunately has been misrepresented in today’s report [in The Australian],” a spokesperson from Energy Australia told CIO Australia. “They have referred to it as money to ‘keep the lights on’. They have misrepresented what part of the spending is under this arrangement.” The Australian reported that a letter, sighted by the paper, had been sent by EnergyAustralia employees to the board of CLP, outlining problems with the project, including stating that the project was stuck at the planning stage after two years. The EnergyAustralia spokesperson said that the figure of “more than $285 million just to keep the lights on” reported by The Australian had not been confirmed with EnergyAustralia. However, the spokesperson did not provide a figure for the total project spend, but said it is “within the original budget and forecast to remain so”. The spokesperson would not give any further details in regards to EnergyAustralia CIO Gary Martin’s resignation, which the newspaper reported was linked to problems with the project. “The company wishes to place on the record our gratitude for Gary’s leadership of the IS function through a period of great change and challenges,” the spokesperson said. Follow Rebecca Merrett on Twitter: @Rebecca_Merrett Follow CIO Australia on Twitter and Like us on Facebook… Twitter: @CIO_Australia, Facebook: CIO Australia, or take part in the CIO conversation on LinkedIn: CIO Australia Related content opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe