The post office has packed its project to move all Horizon Data from Fujitsu Systems to its as the metropolitan police was “not keen” to progress until they were satisfied with the approach.
Data from the Controversial Horizon System Played A Key Role In the Post Office Horizon Scandal.
In November, Computer Weekly Reveled Details of the post office's plan to Migrate legacy data from Fujitsu's Horizon System to a post office cloud.
A pause has been put in place being the Metropolitan Police We “Not Keen” for the migration to program Andy Nice, Chief Transformation Officer at the post office,
Over the past 25 years, data from Horizon was requested by the post office via Audit Record Queries (Arqs). This data should have been prroved the subpostmasters was not to blame for Unexplained shortfalls in their branches, but the post office was reluctant to use it is a limit on how many Make for Free Before Fujitsu charged it.
Word of the plan originally emerged during evidence at the Post Office Scandal Public Inquiry from Fujitsu Boss Paul Patterson Last Week. He Told the Inquiry That Horizon Data, Including All Historical Data, would be inside the post office's house by February. “They'll have all the data that is required,” He said.
In November, nice said the plan was to start testing after the christmas and begin the migration of data early this year. But nice told computer weekly the data migration work has been paired due to ongoing discusations with the metropolitan police. This, he said, is to ensure the force is “comfortable with the migration process and that it doesn't impact its ongoing investigations”.
He said the post office is working closely with fujitsu to ensure they manage any operational risks that this delay entails.
“The met Police relay on Horizon Data for some of their investments (eg robberies from post office) so we were concerned about the potential loss of this data should be encountered we encourage Project, “said nice.
“Both the post office and fujitsu are working closely with the metropolitan police to assure them on this matter, but this is taking time, and they were not keen for us to progress with the work ups to Satisfied Regarding Our Approach. This exercise is ongoing, so we have packed the data migration work in the meantime. “
In November, Nice also said the migration means the post office will no longer be related on fujitsu for the provision of data via the arq process and opens up the position of giving subplete Access to their branch audit data.
Computer weekly First exposed the scandal in 2009Revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffred due to Horizon Accounting Software, Which LED to the Most Widespread Miscariage of Justice In British History of Computer weekly articles about the Scandal Since 2009).