Officials in Marin County, California, decisive yesterday to restore the county's ailing SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, an alternative that would charge less than trying to fix extensive issues with the applications, according to officials.

The system is the subject of a lawsuit Marin County filed next to system integrator Deloitte Consulting previous this year. Deloitte used the project as a trial-and-error training ground for unproven employees, and the result was a costly computer system far worse than the legacy systems it was intentional to restore," according to the county's complaint.

Deloitte has filed motions against Marin County's "completely unfounded allegations," as well as a complaint seeking unpaid fees, a spokesman said via e-mail. The system "was working correctly and could carry out all the tasks continually with the standards set forth in the written contract," according to a Deloitte court filing.