• DocumentCode
    1066738
  • Title

    Ubisco and CDC: Analysis of a Failure

  • Author

    Neukom, Hans

  • Author_Institution
    Fed. Inst. of Technol. Zurich, Zurich
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    31
  • Lastpage
    43
  • Abstract
    The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) and Control Data Corporation (CDC) started the Ubisco project in the early 1970s. The project should have automated all the bank´s operations with a single CDC computer system, but Ubisco failed four years later. Unraveling the reasons behind the project´s failure might help researchers and historians learn why such large computer projects are so often unsuccessful.
  • Keywords
    bank data processing; CDC computer system; Control Data Corporation; Ubisco; Union Bank of Switzerland; bank operation; Banking; Failure analysis; History; Law; Layout; Legal factors; Military computing; Project management; Remuneration; Security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2009.33
  • Filename
    5070063
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1066738