ScanSource Sues Avanade, Alleging “Bait-and-Switch”


GREENVILLE, SC - January 02, 2013 -

Avanade, Inc., a joint venture between Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has been sued by ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCSC) for what ScanSource calls a “bait-and-switch,”  after ScanSource saw Avanade’s initial estimate for the installation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software system Microsoft Dynamics AX balloon from $17 million to nearly $66 million and from 11 months to three years, with the ERP system still not live.  ScanSource’s project is believed to be one of the largest global enterprise level Microsoft Dynamics AX implementations to date.  ....

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