A “viable” local alternative to the failed Pegasystems platform that was intended to replace a 40-year-old mainframe rules engine used to calculate welfare payments was discovered by Services Australia almost a year before the $191 million project was finally scrapped, documents reveal. The proof of concept, conducted by the agency two years into the Entitlement…

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