Implemented new tax billing software or water billing software recently?  Does this sound familiar?  “With the transition of a new software system, it’s difficult to know how soon the data input and conversion process will take”, Kopp said. What’s more, with the current workload, he needs more funding to hire part-time employees and his current full-time staff has to be paid overtime.  That’s from the Post-Tribune’s [1] story of June 28 about Porter County’s new tax billing software project.  At the previous Tuesday’s the Porter County Council meeting County Auditor Jim Kopp raised doubts about the tentative goal to mail out the 2009 bills by early August which officials had agreed on at a previous council meeting.

Selecting the right software is only half the battle.