Baseline articles from April 2003

Baseline archives from April 2003

QUIZ: Finding the Right ROI Mix.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Oh, back in the day--remember that day?--when technology was deemed the most intangible of intangibles. Unless you were replacing pneumatic tubes with e-mail, there was no way to calculate the returns an information system might bring. Not that...

To Quantify or Qualify.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... In sports, the "intangibles" that certain athletes possess carry a lot of weight. Leadership and a good presence in the locker room are two oft-cited intangible assets. Technology executives, however, can't use sports cliches to justify a...

ERP: Bulletproof No More.(enterprise resource planning)
April 7, 2003... Chuck Moore is too busy ironing out the installation of an upgrade to his company's human resources software to worry about network security. That's what makes the discovery of a security flaw in PeopleSoft software alarming. Moore is vice...

War With Iraq May Alter Budgets.
April 7, 2003... Brian Garavuso, chief technology officer for Interstate Hotels and Resorts, is mulling his own war plans. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a weak economy have hurt the travel industry. Now the Iraqi conflict could put clamps on his...

Taxed to the Max.(IRS systems)
April 9, 2003... In 1998, Congress gave the Internal Revenue Service 10 years to overhaul its information systems and reduce the $4.2 billion the government spends each year processing income tax returns. The IRS is aiming to get 80% of federal tax returns...

Tibco: Riding the Bus.
April 9, 2003... TIBCO 3303 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 846-1000 / www.tibco.com TICKER: TIBX EXCHANGE: NASDAQ EMPLOYEES: 1,000 Chairman, President, CEO Founded the company in 1985. His book, "The Power of Now," about how companies can harness...

Death by a Thousand Costs.
April 10, 2003... Conventional large airlines like Delta, American and United fly fleets of airplanes into "hub" airports, where baggage and passengers are transferred to connecting planes to reach their destinations. Discount carriers such as Southwest,...

Amid Delisting Warning, i2 CEO Upbeat.(Sanjiv Sidhu)
April 16, 2003... DALLAS, Texas - Supply chain "improvement company" i2 Technologies has a "huge opportunity to be a $1 billion company," its chairman and chief executive officer Sanjiv Sidhu said Tuesday, one week after the NASDAQ announced its intent to delist...

What Keeps Managers Awake at Night? Security.
April 16, 2003... SAN FRANCISCO--Nervous executives took the stage at the RSA Security Conference here on Tuesday to fret about poor Internet security and its effect on their businesses. In a 40-minute discussion punctuated with warnings to the audience not...