Baseline articles from July 2005

Baseline archives from July 2005

Check in the Mail? Postal Service Ready to Tell You Where.
July 6, 2005... If the U.S. Postal Service has its way, "the check is in the mail" excuse will no longer be valid. The company that sent you the bill could verify whether you're bluffing through a bar code on the return envelope scanned by the Postal Service....

UPS Loses Financial Records, But Has a Bigger Problem.(United Parcel Service of America Inc.)
July 6, 2005... The United Parcel Service invests more than $1 billion a year on technology--smart labels, wireless handheld computers for drivers and efficient delivery plans--to help its customers ship packages. But it can't eliminate human error. All...

The Baseline Security Hall of Shame.
July 6, 2005... The credit records of 3.9 million Citigroup customers disappeared after United Parcel Service lost a box of backup tapes. The card numbers of 40 million MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover account holders were exposed to hackers...

Survivors Demonstrate How to Endure Disasters.
July 7, 2005... Unlike other items in their IT budgets, corporations spend money on disaster-recovery planning in hopes that it will be wasted. Unfortunately, sometimes it's not. The most extreme examples of disaster recovery followed the terrorist...

Teradata: Rich Niche.(company profile)
July 8, 2005... Teradata's customers can come off as a bit snooty. And why not? They're driving what they believe is the Rolls-Royce of databases--and if you have to ask how much it costs, well, you probably can't afford it. For some, though, Teradata has...

Oracle: Known Quantity.
July 8, 2005... Why use Oracle for data warehousing? For many customers, the answer is: Because it's there. For one thing, true-blue Oracle shops say they have a lower learning curve. "Since we're familiar with Oracle tools and technologies, we didn't...

The Baseline 2005 ROI Leadership Awards.
July 8, 2005... The dot-com bust is officially over and forgotten. Creative uses of the Internet propelled the winners of the 2005 Baseline ROI Leadership Awards--and the returns are stellar. American Express had a lot of company in delivering gaudy...

Netezza: Believe the Hype.
July 8, 2005... A system up to 50 times faster than the competition, at half the cost--that's the sounds-way-too-good-to-be-true marketing spiel of Netezza, a data warehouse startup now in its fifth year. Can it back up its swagger? Netezza made a...

Time to Replace Your Phone System?(Brief Article)
July 13, 2005... Calculating the savings for moving from a conventional PBX phone system to a voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) setup is anything but easy. Why? Telephone usage varies, making it difficult to calculate savings. A company that makes many...

NASA's Discovery: Too Much Information?
July 27, 2005... 110 cameras, on the ground, on the fuel tank and elsewhere on the shuttle. Two trailing weather planes, taking photos through a telescope. 90 sensors on the wings, taking note of the impact of any objects. Radar, to track movements. That's...