Project with an international "giant"

I have been in my current project for close to 11 months already by now.
Go by our typical project lifecycle of 5-6 months, this project is considered "extremely" long. To be frank, I am very demoralized by the fact that it has been prolonged from March to Apr and then to May.
Well, there are things not within my control, more so for this project. It is part of a huge integrated project with so much of dependencies. My Company plays the role as provider for the portal solution as part of a bigger program managed by a big system integrator. Things did not go the way I would like it to be, particularly there were so much of slippage in other deliverables that had caused the project target to move from one date further to another.
It has not been a good project for me. Not a successfully one by my definition. Stakeholder management, for instance has been way weak with no clear ownership of deliverables. At times, no culprit could be identified for any delays let alone the accountability part of it.
This is a difficult project and difficult experience for me. But come to think about it, if it is not because of this project, how on earth will i realize that the rest of my previous projects were so manageable and successful?
It is a precious lesson.

Escalation

I thought it would have been a great year in career for me in the year of Ox last year but it turned out to be quite disappointing.
It was disastrous as I was literally having a very bad relationship with my counterpart at the other side of the camp (the system integrator of the project that I am running). We were in the fight mode, with lots of accussations and finger pointings that both have to resolve to due to things that are beyond our control.
This is the urgly fact about the big word "escalation".
I did not want to end the year like that but sadly I have to live with it and began a new year with the not-too-perfect spirit.
Lesson learned: Escalate when you think that you will get 99% if not 100% support from the people at the top. Otherwise, it marks the start of a tiring, long process of convicing even your own people not to mention people at the other camp.
Everyone are protecting their own interest, unless these people felt threaten, they may not support you full heartedly even they are in the same camp as you.
This isn't politic, this is the art of survival.
I regret been truthful.
Well, it is a lesson learned. After all work isn't everything in my life.

Amdocs

Effectively mid Dec, the organization that i worked with had been merged into another bigger organisation called Amdocs. We have been acquired or "swallowed" by that bigger organisation.
I have not heard of Amdocs by any chance before the merger. Apparently it is a large organization with 17,000 of employees. And now i am one of the employee of this bigger entity.
2 months has passed since the merger and I am still struggling with the changes. Obviously when you are merged into a bigger entity, changes are tremendous!
While coping with the change, I am still waiting for the most awaited news of the year - salary review. If it wouldn't because of the merger, i should have known it by end Jan. And now, in the name of merger, there would be realignment of everything to be in line with the bigger organisation - obviously. Apart from that, i have not heard of any "bad" news yet in terms of job cut or the like. So, lets pray that this is not happening very soon.