Baseline articles from August 2002

Baseline archives from August 2002

After WorldCom, Who'll Be Your ISP?
August 2, 2002... You've already heard the news. WorldCom has filed for bankruptcy protection amid questionable accounting practices. Verizon spin-off Genuity teeters precipitously after Verizon announced it wouldn't rescue Genuity from its debtors by...

P&G Eyes New Outsourcing Era.
August 6, 2002... An anticipated multibillion-dollar deal between Procter & Gamble and Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) would be the largest business process outsourcing (BPO) contract to date, and one of the largest outsourcing contracts of any kind, ever....

Detroit Finance System Sputters after Overhaul.
August 6, 2002... In 1997, the City of Detroit announced a plan to revamp its financial software with a three-year, $47.9 million project called the Detroit Resource Management System, or DRMS, commonly referred to as Dreams. It should have been called...

How Schwab Learned to Love Modeling Tools.
August 7, 2002... Utter the words, "modeling" and "reuse" among some developers, and you'll probably get a response not suited for tender ears. These are code words for trying to manage the often-chaotic process of developing software. Most efforts to reuse...

Project Map: Hedging Your Security Bets with Cyberinsurance.
August 9, 2002... This PDF download shows how a company concerned about the vulnerabilities of its online business might undertake a formal assessment of its network security--and consider hedging its bets with an e-risk insurance policy in the process. In this...

ACS: Bulking Up.(Affiliated Computer Services )
August 9, 2002... Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) processes paper claims for Aetna, scanning documents and then shipping the data along with an image of the original to an overseas processing center for quality control. Much of this work is done in Ghana,...

PeopleSoft Seeks Piece of Siebel's Action.(CRM software)
August 26, 2002... NEW ORLEANS--PeopleSoft, known originally for its human resources software, is taking aim at displacing Siebel Systems as the best-known purveyor of software for managing relationships with customers. Or at least, PeopleSoft will try to...

Connectivity Woes at PeopleSoft Show.
August 26, 2002... NEW ORLEANS--Chief executive officer Craig A. Conway wants his customers to believe that PeopleSoft is the enterprise software supplier that is most wedded to the Internet. But is it? Visitors to the company's annual users conference would...

PeopleSoft Users Party in New Orleans.(PeopleSoft Connect 2002)
August 26, 2002... NEW ORLEANS--When the boss is away, the kids come out to play. Or at least party. PeopleSoft, the Pleasanton, Calif., marketer of enterprise software, was happy to note Monday that 20 percent more companies sent attendees to PeopleSoft...

PeopleSoft Exec: Enterprise Apps Will Converge.(PeopleSoft Connect 2002 users conference)
August 28, 2002... NEW ORLEANS--Enterprise software is at about the same stage as desktop software more than a decade ago: It's time to combine the main applications into unified services, said Ram Gupta, executive vice president of products and technology for...